“I like my spare time. I like to play hockey, I like to paint, I play the ukulele, I watch the military channel. I’m a sexy, sexy man.”

Comedian Mike Myers is confident others find him attractive.

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Mike Myers created the voice for his new movie guru Pitka to cheer ill friends up.

The funnyman has been working on his The Love Guru character for years and came up with the comic spiritual leader’s Indian voice in an effort to give sick pals a laugh.

He explains, “The Seat of The Soul was a book I read that I saw on Oprah and I loved it. This is a guy who was a green beret and he was also a physicist. When I talked about what I was reading philosophically this mellifluous voice would emerge. My friends loved it and, in fact, would ask me to call them when they were not feeling well in that voice: `You have a cold? This is the universe telling you to be with yourself because the only way out is in.’”

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I want to see this movie – cause I love Mike Meyers.  I’m not such a fan of Jessica Alba, so hopefully she doesn’t kill it for me.  I seriously cannot think of one movie she has made that I actually enjoyed. Plus, I think she’s a terrible actress.  Okay, enough of that…

Justin Timberlake is more than living up to his moniker “Trousersnake” with a role as a well-hung wannabe 70s porn star in a new comedy.

The pop singer sports a dodgy ‘tache, big hair, tiny speedos and little else as Jacques Grande in The Love Guru.

Grande is a professional skater and aspiring porno actor who has stolen away the wife of a rival hockey player whose career has subsequently gone on the skids.

Austin Powers star Mike Myers plays an Indian guru who makes people fall in love and he attempts to break into the US self-help market by resolving this “triangle of lurve”.

Jessica Alba, Ben Kingsley and Jessica Simpson also star in this ridiculous comedy along with Verne Troyer, who played Mini Me in the Austin Powers series.

The film is set to be release this July.

After four years off, Mike Myers finally returns to the big screen in The Guru.  His last live-action movie was 2003′s The Cat in the Hat.

He finally returns with The Love Guru, which hits screens June 20. The film, which also stars Jessica Alba, Justin Timberlake and Ben Kingsley, features Myers as Pitka, an American left as a child at the gates of an ashram in India. Pitka becomes a self-help guru who tries to smooth the marital rift of a hockey star and his wife.

Myers, a native of Ontario, says he wrote the film because of his interests in Eastern philosophy and hockey. But he isn’t the type to zip out a script the moment an idea hits.

“I enjoy having the Lamaze birthing process of it,” says Myers, who also authored the Wayne’s World and Austin Powers franchises. “It usually takes me three, 3½ years in between characters.”

Why so long? He’s very protective of his original live-action characters. “I’ve written and created everything I’ve done, and it takes me a year to reflect on what I’ve done, a year to let the idea incubate and a year to create” a new character.

For Pitka, that included playing a philosopher of Eastern religion in New York and Los Angeles, where some unsuspecting passersby sought advice from Myers, who never broke from character.

“They asked some very spiritual and deep questions,” he says. “It’s been fascinating combining comedy with a nice life-affirming message.”

Fascinating, if challenging. He knows combining comedy, hockey and Eastern principles is a little “like figuring out how they got the peanut butter in the chocolate and the chocolate in the peanut butter.”

But he didn’t expect the Wayne’s World or Austin Powers films to be successes, either.

“When I did Wayne’s World, I thought you had to grow up in my neighborhood to get it,” he says. “When I did Austin, I thought you had to grow up in my house to get it, because my parents are from Liverpool. But I’ve been very lucky to create things people have liked, so I have to stay true to the things that interest me.”

Mike Myers will star in a remake of the 1947 Danny Kaye comedy The Secret Life of Walter Mitty for 20th Century Fox.

The story is about a daydreamer who uses his vivid imagination to escape from mundane, ordinary life.

The project has been in the works for years, with Jim Carrey and Eddie Murphy both attached to star at some point, and Steven Spielberg and Ron Howard among the directors showing an interest.

Samuel Goldwyn Jr. is producing the movie at Fox with Myers in the lead and Jay Kogen, a writer and producer on The Simpsons, Frasier, and CBS’ The Class, writing a new script.

Myers is scheduled to next start work on Paramount’s Marco Schnabel-directed comedy The Love Guru, which will start production in September. Myers will play Pitka, a self-help guru character he created.

Mitty will compete for the actor’s time with See Me, Feel Me: Keith Moon Naked for Your Pleasure, the Spitfire Pictures/Gerber Pictures drama in which he will play the hard-living drummer for the Who. Playwright Donald Margulies (Brooklyn Boy) has completed a first draft and will do a rewrite. The Who’s Roger Daltrey is aboard as a producer.

Myers is also attached to star in How to Survive a Robot Uprising, and is in early discussions with New Line and director Jay Roach for a fourth installment of the Austin Powers series that tells the story from the viewpoint of Dr. Evil.

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