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| Flop earns Myers Razzies triple | Flop earns Myers Razzies triple |
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| Mike Myers' comedy flop The Love Guru has dominated the Golden Raspberries, the spoof prizes awarded to the worst Hollywood movies of the year. | Mike Myers' comedy flop The Love Guru has dominated the Golden Raspberries, the spoof prizes awarded to the worst Hollywood movies of the year. |
| The film won Razzies for worst picture, worst actor - for Myers in the title role - and worst screenplay, in the annual eve-of-Oscars mock-ceremony. | |
| In a rare double, socialite Paris Hilton "won" prizes for worst actress and supporting actress. | In a rare double, socialite Paris Hilton "won" prizes for worst actress and supporting actress. |
| Neither Myers nor Hilton were at the Los Angeles to collect their awards. | |
| The Love Guru is about an ice hockey player who turns to a mystic to help him turn around his professional and personal fortunes. | The Love Guru is about an ice hockey player who turns to a mystic to help him turn around his professional and personal fortunes. |
| A New York Times review said: "At 88 minutes, The Love Guru would have benefited from a trim of roughly 80 minutes." | A New York Times review said: "At 88 minutes, The Love Guru would have benefited from a trim of roughly 80 minutes." |
| "The main thing wrong with it is no one said to Myers that it wasn't funny," said awards founder John Wilson. | |
| "It was one of the big disasters of the year. He managed to offend the entire Indian population and his investors." | |
| Scorn | Scorn |
| Paris Hilton won worst actress for farce The Hottie and the Nottie, which Britain's Daily Mirror described as a film "of monumental dreadfulness". | Paris Hilton won worst actress for farce The Hottie and the Nottie, which Britain's Daily Mirror described as a film "of monumental dreadfulness". |
| She also scooped the worst supporting actress award for her cameo role in musical oddity Repo! The Genetic Opera. | |
| "Other than the fact she's infamous there's really no reason to put her in a movie," Wilson told the BBC. | |
| "I can't imagine anyone giving her billing above the title ever again." | |
| Myers' Love Guru co-star Sir Ben Kingsley, though, was spared embarrassment when the worst supporting actor prize went to Pierce Brosnan in Mamma Mia! | |
| Quizzed on his nomination at the Spirit Awards, held before the Razzie ceremony on Saturday, Sir Ben claimed not to know what a Razzie was. | |
| "I guess he normally exists at a level where he wouldn't understand what we were talking about," said Wilson. | |
| 'Flatulence' | |
| "But it is interesting the guy who played Gandhi is now playing a cross-eyed mystic with a flatulence problem." | |
| Past Razzie winners include Ben Affleck, Eddie Murphy, Daryl Hannah and Halle Berry - one of the few recipients to have collected her prize in person. | |
| Founded by Wilson, a copywriter and publicist, the Golden Raspberries have been pouring scorn on Hollywood's great and good since 1981. | |
| Awards are voted upon by members of the Golden Raspberry Award Foundation (Graf) which - unlike the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences - includes members of the public. | |
| "We go out of our way to make fun of the formality, pomposity and endless back-slapping that goes on at all those other awards shows," said Wilson. |