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...That's where I am, though not for religious reasons. Mostly I'm in synch with the Myers character: Maurice Pitka, a goofy innocent who loves potty humor but has a generous heart. He's not far from Adam Sandler's Zohan, another sweet soul with a few personality defects. A North American kid raised in India, Maurice at 13 came under the tutelage of a cross-eyed swami (Ben Kingsley, giving the goose to his Oscar-winning Gandhi). "I want to become a guru so people will like me," young Maurice tells his master, "so I will love myself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Love Guru: Transcendent ... Not! | 6/19/2008 | See Source »

...author of such popular tomes as If You're Happy and You Think It, Think Again and Stop Hitting Yourself. Stop Hitting Yourself. Why Are You Still Hitting Yourself? Pitka is famous, but, he thinks, not famous enough. Rather like the Sean Penn guitarist in Woody Allen's Sweet and Lowdown, who realizes he's no Django Reinhardt, Pitka rankles at being No. 2 to Chopra. His manager (John Oliver of The Daily Show) convinces him that he can get on Oprah if he can just restore the frayed marriage of Darren Roanoke (Romany Malko), a Toronto Maple Leafs star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Love Guru: Transcendent ... Not! | 6/19/2008 | See Source »

...scare the audience; he wanted to create complex, often sympathetic figures- to enlighten us about the dark side. "I don't do special effects," he once said. "I do characters." His Edward Scissorhands character, elaborated on from director Tim Burton's sketches, puts the poignancy right in that white, sweet, baleful, soulful face. The Penguin, played by Danny De Vito in Burton's Batman Returns, is an ugly, beaky thing that no kid could mistake for having happy feet; yet beneath his comic rage there's an abandoned child's ache, palpable and, thanks to Winston, visible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stan Winston: Monster Magician | 6/16/2008 | See Source »

...Cream 100 calories 55 mg of sodium 6 g of fat FACT: It's a good idea to ditch the Dixie Cup. Satisfy your sweet tooth with low-fat alternatives like frozen yogurt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: School Cuisine | 6/12/2008 | See Source »

Grapes 71 calories 2 mg of sodium 0 g of fat FACT: Perfect little packages--sweet, juicy and a great alternative to high-calorie desserts like cookies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: School Cuisine | 6/12/2008 | See Source »

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