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How The Love Guru Could Cost You Half A Year Of Your Life
2:09AM Richard Lawson | Guys, if you’re going to go to jail for six months for movie piracy, please make sure it’s not because of The Love Guru. Let poor young Jack Yates of California be an example to us all. More »
‘The Love Guru,’ ‘Crystal Skull’ Among Piles of Shit Recognised By Razzies
2:02AM Seth | The Razzie nominees—recognised for singular achievements in filling theatres with fetid bad-cinema stink—were announced today, with Mike Myers’ spiritual passion project The Love Guru most singled out for its unfathomable crimes against good filmmaking.
Man Who Helped Doom ‘Love Guru’ Finds Next Target: Jessica Alba’s Tattoo
9:00AM STV | Last we heard from Rajan Zed, the “acclaimed Hindu statesman” was single-handedly derailing The Love Guru’s chances for interfaith box-office success. Having spectacularly accomplished that mission, he has since moved on to an even more dire crisis of modern spirituality. To wit: Can Hinduism survive Jessica Alba’s body art? More »
Deepak Chopra Comes Clean, Admits He Hated ‘Love Guru’
2:20AM STV | It seems like only yesterday that Deepak Chopra flexed his philosophical muscle in the name of The Love Guru, deflecting rumours of its anti-Hindu undercurrents in a zinger of an essay on BeliefNet: “Silliness often has wisdom hidden just beneath the surface — perhaps The Love Guru will, also, since Myers laced his Austin Powers farce with a message about tolerance — but if you can’t accept silliness in the first place, you are likely to be immune to wisdom, too.”
Verne Troyer’s Tribute to Heath Ledger Overshadowed by Potential For Ex-Strangling
2:10AM Defamer Hollywood | Life is rough these days for Verne Troyer, the diminutive, sex-tape-making, back-tax-owing (allegedly), bomb-starring actor whose bout with the tabloids took an introspective turn Tuesday in an interview with E! Denying he had anything to do with the “unauthorized” release of his videotaped tongue-stabbing of ex-girlfriend Ranae Shrider, a sober Troyer inventoried Shrider’s motivations for supposedly dropping the tryst at TMZ’s doorstep — and, in the process, both defused and started harrowing rumours we could have gone the rest of our lives without conjuring: More »
The Law of Diminishing Mike Myers Comedy Returns
3:45AM Seth | It occurred to us here at Defamer HQ that The Love Guru—by all accounts, the most execrable film sediment to coat our cultural shores in eons—marks something of an Unfunniness Benchmark for its dwarfhandling star, Mike Myers. Which got us a-thinking: Was he ever funny? What if we could map the relative comedic trajectory of his collected oeuvre over time and space, in a scientifically controlled environment? More »
It’s Official: Mike Myers and Rest of ‘Love Guru’ Principals Doomed to 1,000 Years in Hell
8:30AM Defamer Hollywood | We were sorry to read this week about the certain fiery purgatory awaiting slumping star Mike Myers, pregnant newlywed Jessica Alba and the rest of those associated with the production of The Love Guru, Myers’ new “comedy” that drew such scorn last month from spiritual leaders around the country. We now learn that after a bit more finger-wagging and number-crunching, a dreadful trailer is the least the principals — and its viewers — have to worry about: More »
Backlash Against Mike Myers’ ‘Love Guru’ is Something Outraged Members of All Faiths Can Agree On
5:05AM Defamer Hollywood | It wasn’t bad enough that the almost willfully unfunny trailer for Mike Myers’ comeback vehicle, The Love Guru (which you can watch after the jump), had Defamer HQ wailing with laments for the comic’s lost Canadian soul. The metaphor has officially entered the literal realm this week, as nervous Hindu spiritual leader Rajan Zed — who coaxed a full viewing of the comedy out of Paramount — is on the PR offensive with his Christian and Jewish friends close behind: More »
