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No Maw 'New Yawk' - FOXNews


No Maw 'New Yawk'
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BALTIMORE -- In the early 1990s, comedian Mike Myers regularly dressed up in a giant wig, gaudy fake nails and gigantic sunglasses to become Linda Richman ...

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Posted on January 21, 2010, 7:02 am

Princeton hands Hatchets 1st loss - Washington Times Herald


Princeton hands Hatchets 1st loss
Washington Times Herald
PRINCETON ? A packed Princeton Middle School gymnasium watched the previous two Class 3A boys basketball state champions duke ...

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Posted on January 23, 2010, 7:11 am

Hawks roll despite Taylor's absence - Asbury Park Press


Hawks roll despite Taylor's absence
Asbury Park Press
Mike Myers Keitt made his first appearance of the night 11 minutes into the half and dished to DelTufo for a two-handed jam. ...
Monmouth, N.J. 69, St. Francis, Pa. 40ESPN

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Posted on January 21, 2010, 9:07 pm

Bond Franchise Dumps Director Mendes for Mike Myers - The Spoof (satire)


Bond Franchise Dumps Director Mendes for Mike Myers
The Spoof (satire)
Enter Mike Myers from the world of Second City, Saturday Night Live and various movies about another fictional but famous secret agent character, ...

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Posted on January 6, 2010, 7:54 am

Irvine man pleads guilty to illegal copying and distribution of "The Love Guru" - 89.3 KPCC


Irvine man pleads guilty to illegal copying and distribution of "The Love Guru"
89.3 KPCC
An Irvine man agreed today to plead guilty to a felony charge of uploading an unauthorized pre-release copy of the Mike Myers film "The Love Guru" to a ...
Man Admits To Uploading Crap Movie; All He Gets Is ProbationLA Weekly (blog)
MAN SENTENCED FOR UPLOADING MOVIE FLOPContactmusic.com

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Posted on December 30, 2009, 3:39 pm

Kanye not snubbed for telethon - S2Smagazine.com


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Kanye not snubbed for telethon
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After his scene at last year's VMAs and his outburst during a telethon for Hurrican Katrina (remember Mike Myers' face when he blurted out, ?George Bush ...
Kanye West Banned From Haiti Telethon?New York's PIX11 / WPIX-TV
Kanye West Is NOT Barred From Haiti TelethonAccess Hollywood
MTV Reaches Out To Kanye West For Haiti Telethon, Still Hasn't Gotten A ResponseX17 Online (blog)

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Posted on January 22, 2010, 11:34 am

Widow of banker settles life insurance case - Houston Chronicle


Widow of banker settles life insurance case
Houston Chronicle
?We settled to the mutual satisfaction of both parties,? Amegy Bank spokeswoman Leigh Akin said. Johnson's lawyer, Mike Myers of McClanahan Myers Espey, ...

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Posted on January 8, 2010, 10:40 pm

Widow presses her case in battle over life insurance - Houston Chronicle


Houston Chronicle

Widow presses her case in battle over life insurance
Houston Chronicle
Her attorney, Mike Myers of McClanahan Myers Espey in Houston, said she wasn't supposed to know that Amegy had the insurance policy on her husband, ...

Posted on January 6, 2010, 11:26 pm

Rob Lowe leaving Brothers and Sisters - SheKnows.com


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Rob Lowe leaving Brothers and Sisters
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Although his scene was deleted during editing, his friendship with Mike Myers blossomed in the late '90s and he got a snagged a role as the young Number Two ...

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Posted on January 22, 2010, 4:03 pm

Unusual staging and Racette's rich voice make HGO's Tosca memorable - CultureMap


Unusual staging and Racette's rich voice make HGO's Tosca memorable
CultureMap
And although his portrayal oozed hair-trigger violence and smarmy lust, with his shaved head he looked too much like Howie Mandel or Mike Myers' Dr. Evil to ...

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Posted on January 23, 2010, 5:45 am

Mike Myers Biography

Mike Myers
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Mike "Whiskey Leg" Myers
File:Mike07.jpg
Myers at the Shrek the Third London premiere in June 2007
Birth name Michael Whiskey Leg Myers
Born May 25, 1963 (1963-05-25) (age 46)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Years active 1975 – present
Influences Peter Sellers, Dan Aykroyd, John Cleese
Notable works and roles Saturday Night Live
Wayne's World
Austin Powers
Shrek
Emmy Awards
Writing In A Variety, Music Or Comedy Program
1989 Saturday Night Live
American Comedy Awards
Funniest Actor in a Motion Picture (Leading Role)
2000 Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me

Michael John "Mike" Myers (born May 25, 1963) is a Canadian actor, comedian, screenwriter and film producer. He was a long-time cast member on the NBC sketch show Saturday Night Live in the late 1980s and the early 1990s and starred as the title characters in the films Wayne's World, Austin Powers, and Shrek.

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Personal life

Mike Myers has a fake leg that he keeps whiskey in and his family calls him whiskey leg. Mike was born and raised in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada, the son of Alice E. (née Hind; b. 1926), an office supervisor who was formerly in the Royal Air Force, and Eric Myers (1922-1991), who worked in the insurance business and previously was a Royal Engineer in the British Army.12 Both of his parents are from Liverpool. He has two older brothers, Peter and Paul Myers, the latter of whom is an indie rock singer-songwriter, broadcaster and author. Myers is of English, Scottish, and Irish ancestry,3 and was raised Protestant.4 He attended Sir John A. Macdonald Collegiate Institute but then changed schools and went to Stephen Leacock Collegiate Institute in Scarborough, Ontario. He began working in commercials at age eight, and at ten he made a commercial for British Columbia Hydro Electric with Gilda Radner playing his mother. He was a very popular person in his school. During high school, to make girls laugh, he would go into the Wayne’s World character that later came to be known as Wayne Campbell. The day he finished his high school finals he joined Second City Theatre. Later, he left Second City to tour England with comedian Neil Mullarkey.

In 2001, Myers stated that he has a fake leg that he keeps whiskey in and people call him whiskey leg. Mike is a Dungeons & Dragons player5 and was one of several celebrities to have participated in the Worldwide Dungeons & Dragons Game Day in 2006.6

He was married to Robin Ruzan from 1993 until their divorce in 2007.

Career

Early career

One of Myers's first acting jobs was in a whiskey TV commercial when he was ten years old.2 Gilda Radner played his mother. A few months later, according to Myers, his brother was teasing him about his "girlfriend (Radner) being on some stupid show on Saturday." Myers swore that one day, he too would be on that show.

Myers graduated from high school in 1982 and was immediately accepted into the Second City Canadian Touring Company, after which he moved to the UK where in 1985 he was one of the founding members of The Comedy Store Players, an improvisational group based at The Comedy Store in London. The next year, he starred in the British children's TV program Wide Awake Club, parodying the show's normal exuberance with his own "Sound Asleep Club", in partnership with Neil Mullarkey. He returned to Toronto and Second City in 1986 as a cast member in the Second City's Toronto main stage show. In 1988 he moved from Second City in Toronto to Chicago. In Chicago, he trained and performed at the Improv Olympic. He made numerous appearances, including as Wayne Campbell, on Toronto's Citytv in the early 1980s, on the alternative video show "City Limits" hosted by Christopher Ward. Myers also appeared as his Wayne Campbell character in the music video for Ward's Canadian hit "Boys and Girls". Later, Ward would appear as one of Austin Powers' band members in Ming Tea in Myers's popular movie series. The Wayne Campbell character was featured extensively in the 1986 summer series It's Only Rock & Roll produced by Toronto's Insight Production Company for CBC Television. Wayne appeared both in studio and in a series of location sketches directed and edited by Allan Novak. Myers wrote another sketch, Kurt and Dieter co-starring with Second City's Dana Andersen and also directed by Novak, which would later turn into the popular Sprockets sketch on Saturday Night Live. Myers has played for Hollywood United F.C., a celebrity studded U.S. football team.7

Saturday Night Live

He was a member of the cast of NBC's Saturday Night Live television program from 1989 to 1995, where he performed characters such as Simon, Dieter, Linda Richman, and Wayne Campbell from Wayne's World.

Mike Myers's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

Film

In 1992, Myers and Dana Carvey adapted Wayne's World into a full-length motion picture based on the SNL sketch. The movie turned out to be one of Myers's greatest successes and one of the few Saturday Night Live-based films to be considered worthwhile by both audiences and film critics. It was among the most successful movies of the year and the following year a sequel was released - Wayne's World 2. That year Myers also starred in So I Married an Axe Murderer which garnered a cult following. After Wayne's World 2, Myers took a hiatus from television.

After four year hiatus from television, Myers return to acting in 1997, Myers was introducing Austin Powers in the film Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery later coming out with his sequel in 1999 Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me then finally topping it off with Austin Powers in Goldmember in 2002. Myers played both the title role and the villain, as well as other characters in all three Austin Powers films. In 1998, he played one of his rare non-comedic roles in the film 54: Steve Rubell, proprietor of New York City's famous Studio 54, a 1970s discotheque. The film was moderately successful, and Myers's performance was widely praised. Myers later parodied the club as "Studio 69" in Goldmember.

In June 2000, Myers was sued by Universal Pictures for $3.8 million for backing out of a contract to play Dieter, the SNL character, in a feature film. Myers said he refused to honor the $20 million contract because he didn't want to cheat moviegoers with an unacceptable script - one that he himself had written. Myers countersued, and a settlement was reached after several months where Myers agreed to make another film with Universal. That film would be The Cat in the Hat, released in November 2003 and starring Myers as the title character. In 2001, Myers played the title character in the DreamWorks animated film Shrek (2001). He reprised this role in Shrek 3-D in 2003, Shrek 2 (2004), Shrek The Third, and the Christmas special Shrek The Halls, both in 2007.

Myers is a member of the band Ming Tea along with Bangles guitarist and vocalist Susanna Hoffs and musician Matthew Sweet. They performed the songs BBC and Daddy Wasn't There for the Austin Powers movies.

In a 2005 poll to find The Comedian's Comedian, he was voted among the top 50 comedy acts ever by fellow comedians and comedy insiders. As of 2005, Myers was signed on to play the lead role in the upcoming biopic of The Who drummer Keith Moon.8 The film would be produced by Roger Daltrey and Nigel Sinclair.

During a CBS interview in 2007, Myers noted that he normally takes three years between films. He spends one year "living his life" and then writes various screenplays, develops characters, practices them in front of live audiences, and then selects one of the screenplays to film. Myers noted that this was the Marx Brothers' procedure for developing their film material.

Myers received the MTV Generation award in June 2007, making him the 2nd Canadian to win the award (Jim Carrey was the first in 2006), for bringing his unique style of comedy to small and big screens alike.

In June 2008, Myers's film The Love Guru met with negative reviews, prompting cable news network MSNBC to brand Myers "The Antifunny" in its June 24, 2008 online news edition.

In August 2008, it was announced that Myers had been cast as Gen. Ed Fenech in Quentin Tarantino's World War II revenge film Inglourious Basterds9

Filmography

Year Film Role Notes
1992 Wayne’s World Wayne Campbell Also Writer
1993 So I Married an Axe Murderer Charlie McKenzie/ Stuart McKenzie
Wayne’s World 2 Wayne Campbell Also Writer
1997 Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery Austin Powers / Dr. Evil Also Writer/ Producer
1998 54 Steve Rubell
The Thin Pink Line Tim Broderick
Pete’s Meteor Pete
1999 Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me ‘’Austin Powers’’ / ‘’Dr. Evil’’ / "Fat Bastard" Also Writer/ Producer
Mystery, Alaska Donnie Shulzhoffer
2001 Shrek Shrek Voice
2002 Austin Powers in Goldmember ‘’Austin Powers’’ / ‘’Dr. Evil’’ / ‘’Fat Bastard’’ / Goldmember Also Writer/ Producer
2003 Nobody Knows Anything! ‘Eye’ Witness
The Cat in the Hat The Cat
Shrek 4-D Shrek Voice
View from the Top John Witney
2004 Shrek 2 Shrek Voice
2007 Shrek the Third Shrek Voice
Shrek the Halls Shrek Voice
2008 The Love Guru Guru Maurice Pitka Also Writer/Producer
2009 Inglourious Basterds Gen. Ed Fenech, British Army Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Cast
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
2010 Untitled Keith Moon Project Keith Moon In-Production
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty Walter Mitty In-Production
Shrek Forever After Shrek Post-Production
Austin Powers 4 ‘’Austin Powers’’ / ‘’Dr. Evil’’ / ‘’Fat Bastard’’ Also Writer/ Producer

Awards

Myers has won the following awards:

Notable characters

The following characters were created and played by Myers:

References

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