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Article: MIKE MYERS IS THE LOVE GURU
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- Daily Breeze
- Article date:
- 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.