Mike Myers

[mariposalabrown]

I saw it other places as well, and then Perez picked it up. I believe it. And I really couldn't care either way. Cat in the Hat still sucked.

Oh, but I love him for So I Married An Axe Murderer, so I'm just pickin'.

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P.S. This could explain why he and his plain looking former wife never had kids.

This just frustrates me. What does it matter what his wife looks like? Honestly, take away the fame and his ex-wife is almost too hot for him (I think he is cute, but seriously... ). What does it achieve to call her "plain"? The point is that he likes dudes, not that he wasn't attracted to his wife because she wasn't hot enough. ARGH!

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Even Ted's being a bit vague.

www.eonline.com/Gossip/Awful/Daily2006/060531.html

Too many fun 'n' sex-ay sightings to get to, but first, what the ef's up with Mikey Myers, huh?

Now, we've always known boyfriend Mike to be a little, how shall I say, high-strung? Yep, uh-huh.

I mean, if you ask moi, the gifted comic and writer really should take chins-up lessons from those exquisitely highlighted battle-ax publicists of his. Of course, as usual, nobody (who counts) does.

Be that as it may, some folks over at Shrek the Third, which is in production, sure have been tellin' me plenty, all to do with the ridiculously overpaid man behind the voice of the title character.

Mr. M., it seems, may be feeling huge-butt pressure. See, DreamWorks hasn't exactly had primo box-office luck of late and is majorly counting on this sequel.

"[Myers] seems barely able to function," reports a pissy but accurate Shrek (high-up) film vet. "I don't know what it is, but something's up with this guy."


Well, I know--as do many other divorce-watching gossips--that Mike's split from wife Robin Ruzan left the Canadian cutie pretty shaken. Particularly when the sparring couple's pooches got caught in the legal crossfire.

"Do you know [Myers] was more concerned about those dogs than he was with his ex-wife?" rhetorically asked a paw-witness to the former duo's verbal damnations. Uh, with a few of my ex b-friends, yeah, I can imagine choosing my cat, Butch, instead, so I, like, totally get that one, you?

But back to Shrek Central:

"He keeps changing lines and he seems really depressed," pooped a Shrek behind-the-scenester.

"This is all bulls--t," replied Myers' chic-but-surefire press rep. "What passes for gossip these days is what's depressing. Mike's fine. He's doing great."


Indeed, an official repper at the little studio that could denied any knowledge whatsoever of any Myers frownie-faced moments on the big-budget pic.

Other, non-mouthpiece-esque, worker bees who are toiling right alongside Mr. M., added the following:

"DreamWorks is getting concerned about [Myers'] condition," whispered Source Shrek, "because they have so much riding on this one. It's sort of like the time they got a handler to take care of Chris Farley on the original Shrek [before he suffered a drug overdose and Myers took over the role], although this time it's not drugs but something else."

Pray tell what, Mikey? What's getting you so damn down? Do tell.

[Ginger]

What does it achieve to call her "plain"? The point is that he likes dudes, not that he wasn't attracted to his wife because she wasn't hot enough.

It is thought that one sign of a beard relationship is when one chooses to marry someone notably unattractive or old because physical attraction does not play a role in the decision, like it would for a heterosexual couple. The implication is not that her looks failed to keep him interested, but that her looks may have never been of any concern to him. I don't happen to think that applies to Robin at all because I think she's beautiful. She's a bit Rubenesque, but IMO not in a bad way.

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^^Oh, I see. It just seemed unnecessary to call her "plain" when the issue was whether or not he is gay, not whether or not he stepped out on his wife because she wasn't attractive to him (I mean, if he is gay, the most beautiful woman in the world isn't going to get him all hot and bothered).

Mike has always seemed like one of those desperate to please types who walk the fine line between being super-happy and depressed (Jim Carrey gives me the same vibes). I can imagine that even if he has decided to come out, the break-up of his marriage (he and Robin seemed VERY compatible even if it stopped being about sex - if it ever was) has been very difficult for both of them. I hope he can get it together for his own sake.

[foxfair]

I've always gotten the barely-contained-crazy vibes from this guy, as I do from many comedians, actually. I've also always gotten the barely-contained-asshole vibes from him. I just don't like him and I can't really put my finger on why. It's his particular brand of eager-to-please combined with what I suspect is, underneath, a kind of looking down on the public as idiots or people who don't understand. I dunno. Just don't like the guy. I do see the comparison with Jim Carrey (what does my country do to comedians?!) but imo Carrey is sympathetic in a way that Myers isn't. Again, this is all visceral, I can't really explain it.

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I like Myers, but I see what you are saying re: Jim Carrey, Foxfair. I think it is because Carrey makes himself truly vulnerable every so often. This might be because he is a better actor than Mike and was truly empathetic in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Man on the Moon or it might be because he has always been more open about his own painful past. Myers just seems to hide everything behind a jokey facade without ever letting anything "real" through. Unfair assessment? No doubt, but there you have it.

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So he'll "have the Cream of Sum Yung Gui"?

(too obscure?)

[ahenobarbus]

If you think about it, Mike Myers was a lot more convincing in the role of the Sprockets guy than as Wayne from Wayne's World. And then there are those Austin Powers costumes.

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ahenobarbus said:

If you think about it, Mike Myers was a lot more convincing in the role of the Sprockets guy than as Wayne from Wayne's World. And then there are those Austin Powers costumes.

That's exactly what I thought of!

I can help with the gay rumour in print. I know I read it online too and not from Perez. It might have been ONTD. If not them, it was a link to a blog I'd never heard of. Anyway there was a post about how nice Mike was when some fans happened upon him playing hockey in an alley with friends. Then they had a post about him being gay and they did name him. It was after that the other places seemed to start mentioning it. As for Ted C, in his column there, he does start off with the word HUMPH at the end of the sentence. lol "hump" .. okay never mind.

Anyway, Foxfair, if you're canuck like me, I'm thinking Scarborough is to blame. Both Carrey and Myers lived there. That's gotta be it. (Scarborough is like a suburb city of Toronto for anyone who might not know where it is)