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Article: ALL HE NEEDS IS LOVE LOVE GURU MIKE MYERS ON LIFE, DEATH AND ... YEAH, BABY ... HOCKEY.(LA.COM)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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- June 15, 2008
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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 ...