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Article: MIKE MYERS IS THE LOVE GURU

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June 14, 2008
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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 Toronto Maple Leafs.

Crude and crazy as it gets, "The Love Guru" addresses many things the ...

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