Article: ALL HE NEEDS IS LOVE LOVE GURU MIKE MYERS ON LIFE, DEATH AND ... YEAH, BABY ... HOCKEY.(LA.COM)

Byline: Bob Strauss

Film Writer

It's taken five years and a couple of "Shreks" for Mike Myers to take on a new role.

Forget the green ogre. "The Love Guru" is here (it opens in theaters on Friday). Guru Pitka, an American-born, India-raised, spiritual self-promoter, is definitely a labor of love.

Created around the same time that Myers first cooked up Austin Powers, Pitka was perfected and refined for more than a dozen years at daily writing sessions and comedy club performances. Well, maybe refined isn't the right word; sex jokes, bathroom humor and ethnic gags abound as Pitka tries to motivate Myers' hometown hockey team, the ...

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