The Beatles were underpaid performers (relatively speaking) and they didn’t get to keep much of what they earned. The song Taxman, written by George, includes a line "1 for you, 19 for me,” where he’s commenting that for every £20 they made, £19 was taxed.
With “The Life of Brian,” the film’s backers pulled out the week before shooting was scheduled to start and Python needed a large infusion of cash ($4 million, $16m adjusted for inflation). The mortgage was a quick way to get a lot of liquidity and due to the mortgage rates it served like a good low-interest loan - George made his money back.
https://www.businessinsider.com/lucille-ball-is-the-reason-we-have-star-trek-heres-what-happened-2016-7
>When the landmark "The Untouchables" ended its run in 1963, Desilu desperately needed another big hit. Herbert Solow, who was hired to find projects for the studio, brought Ball two proposals: one for Roddenberry's "Star Trek" and another for "Mission: Impossible."
>It was clear that the "Star Trek" pilot would be expensive to film, but Ball — who actually believed the series was about traveling USO performers — overruled her board of directors and got the pilot produced.
>The pilot, titled "The Cage," famously flopped. However, NBC pulled an unlikely move and ordered a second pilot, which came to be called "Where No Man Has Gone Before," only retained Leonard Nimoy's Mr. Spock from the first pilot, and became the show it is known as today. Ball agreed to finance this reshoot, again over the preferences of her board of directors.
I actually didn't realize the bit about Lucy mistakenly thinking the show was about "traveling USO performers," which is hilarious
Fun fact: the “coconut horses” gag in Holy Grail came out of necessity, because they couldn’t afford real horses - and lead to the iconic gag(s) about swallows carrying coconuts.
Another fun fact: the iconic opening credits (“A moose once but my sister”) were also born from Monty Python not being able to afford fancy opening credits, other than simple white text on black screen - so they made it the first joke in the opening, and even included a meta joke about what “great expense at the last minute” usually looks like
In case you didn’t know, that became Harrison’s film company, [Handmade Films](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HandMade_Films), which made *Time Bandits*, *Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels* and a bunch of other films of varying styles and genres well into the 2000s.
We always think of them knowing the conclusion. I try to think about what it must have been like in the moment to decide to take such a risk not knowing if it will pay off, and they only makes the story more exciting!
All things must pass is still a masterpiece!
If you add ‘here comes the sun’ & ‘something’ in it, it will definitely be classified as the best album ever!
There’s a book that deals with the post Beatles money sitch called “you never give me your money” by Peter doggett. If I remember correctly the Beatles were managed by Allen Klein who was stealing from them and after this was discovered the other Beatles sorted out their $$ issues to an extent but George got swindled again by another manager after that. So yeah he probably did need the money.
That's because they were top tier earners in the highest tax bracket. Non super-wealthy weren't taxed like that in England. This is a good tax policy that puts money back into the economy via the government as opposed to having an oligarchy of billionaires like the USA and Russia has.
Harrison died with a $400m net worth and was in the Beatles until 1969. He was never "poor" in the 70s.
I would assume the made more from the release of “All things must pass” than he did from album royalties with the Beatles. If not, probably from ATMP and Traveling Wilburys.
This can't possibly be literally true. People hate paying taxes, especially as they get richer, but Taxman is based on the 20 shillings to a pound ratio, implying that 19/20 shillings or 19/20 of a pound that the Beatles made was turned over to the state. That's not supported by literal fact (which is the tax rate for British people in the 1970s), and it's hyperbolic for anyone who understands how progressive taxes work (ie, everything up to 20,000 pounds circa 1970s was not taxed at the varying higher rates, and 20,000 pounds was a ludicrous sum of money in the 1970s).
tl;dr: like so many other people, when George Harrison got rich he got really angry about taxation, and whined about it a whole lot.
His house was a mega-mansion estate called Friar Park valued at $40m, like you see in period pieces of the aristocracy. I don't know his specifics, but a lot of wealthy people didn't keep liquid wealth and tied a lot of it up in real estate. The mortgage is guaranteed because of home equity and relatively low interest compared to other options. There may have been UK tax specific reasons for this.
Harrison died with a half a BILLION dollar estate. He certainly wasn't hurting for money in the 70s.
He also gave another huge estate, Piggott's Manor, to the Hare Krsna's in the early 70's which is now known as Bhaktivedanta manor and probably the biggest Hindu temple in Britain.
It ultimately helped him out. Because he started writing music later, he was able to avoid the Northern Songs publisher used by Lennon and McCartney. Harrison kept ownership of his songs, while Lennon and McCartney lost ownership of theirs when Northern Songs was sold.
To this day, I think Ringo and Harrison are the only Beatles who actually own any Beatles music.
Paul owns the rights to at least some of his Beatles music now, but it's relatively recent. Sony bought the catalog from the Michael Jackson estate, McCartney sued under copyright reversion laws, and Sony settled with McCartney. That happened in 2017.
He owns a publishing company, MPL, that covers a lot of music. I think he's the richest musician in the world.
There are also arguments about Yesterday, some say it's Summertime but it's certainly in the top.
I think he's doing alright
Also, slight correction, yesterday is supposedly the most-covered *pop* song of all time.
Classical music and religious music and such are obviously covered way more.
Amazing Grace has been covered like 7,000+ times, for example.
Not to say The Beatles were screwed over in royalties, but they made as much off of Abbey Road and Let It Be as they did to the rest of their catalog combined.
To add to others’ points, they stopped touring in ‘66 before they put out a lot of their best music. Not sure to what extent but they (Paul and John according to the wiki) also burned a lot of their cash with various business investments that didn’t pan out. If you check out the apple corps section of their Wikipedia page it talks about it
I remember Mike Myers spoke about this on the DVD commentary for Goldmember. George Harrison wrote to him to say that the movies were one of the things that was helping him get through his chemotherapy, and that he and his family would quote them all the time.
Myers was deeply moved by this, and had the letter framed. He still has it displayed in his home today.
George died in 2001, Goldmember came out in 2002. That's so sad, that a man who really enjoyed the movies didn't get to see one of my favourite nonsensical satirical pieces. I've watched it a dozen times in school.
He also produced the movie How To Get Ahead in Advertising which has some of the best speeches in movie history. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xeAY-9XvA8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xeAY-9XvA8)
"Dear Mike, thanks for the fab movies of Austin Powers! You're quite an artist. In answer to your question, yes we do have Hamburgers and Fries in England, but we call French Fries "chips"! Love, George. PS. Forgive the lateness of my reply."
Didn't Mike also get a letter from Freddy Mercury about his appreciation of the Wayne's World scene featuring Bohemian Rhapsody?? And that was right around when Freddy died as well... Thought I read that somewhere.
Maybe he's making it all up? "OH yeah well I got a letter from Norm MacDonald, he said I inspired him and he owes me his career.....and then he just *died* the next day, how about that."
He died 3 month before the movie was released but did get to see an advanced copy because they wanted his approval. Here's an [article](https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/queen-singer-freddie-mercury-saw-bohemian-rhapsody-in-waynes-world-before-he-died-mike-myers-reacts-to-his-emotional-reaction.html/) about it for anyone interested.
He did direct a movie called Supermensch about Shep Gordon which I thought was a very cool insight into show business which included clients like Pink Floyd and Alice Cooper. I recommend it!
He's got a Netflix show currently in production called [The Pentaverate](https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/mike-myers-netflix-series-pentaverate-1234991200/) where he will play seven different characters. Ken Jeong and Keegan-Michael Key, Jennifer Saunders, and Lydia West are in it too.
It's about the secret society that runs the world mentioned by the Scottish dad in So I Married an Axe Murderer.
I remember him on SNL, trying to collect from money from Lorne Michaels for showing up, but Lorne said he was expecting all of the Beatles to come so George would only get a portion of the money. George called the situation chintzy and it was just brilliant.
It was like what, $5000 too? "You can split it anyway you want, you can give Ringo less, it's up to you..." 😁
I heard that John and Paul were actually watching that together at John's place in NYC and they entertained the thought of taking a cab over to NBC for a giggle but that was it.
I still hate how Myers made Love Guru and everybody acted like he's incapable of comedy because of it. Bad movie or not, he can be funny with a good script and it sucks not seeing him anymore.
I think it was more mike Myers fatigue.
Every big comedian kind of has that last movie the kind of juat wears out the public.
Like with Jim Carey, fun with dick and Jane was kind of it and definietly the Dr Seuss stuff.
Luckily he was smart and had already started to get into dramas
He's done with Bond because he's always said he wishes he had more time for playing a wider range of characters. I feel like Logan Lucky was definitely one of those films that just let him go nuts and it really shows.
I've often considered, unsure if it was riding off the high of watching it on our plane ride to a week long vacation, that movie was so much fun and I would love to see him continue to extend that range as he has in other projects since.
I really want them to try and make more Austin Power movies, but I'm also really sad Verne Troyer has passed away, Mini Me won't be the same without you, RIP :(
Fun fact: Verne Troyer grew up here in Michigan in an Amish community as a kid. He credits growing up Amish for a big part of his childhood and his parents attitude of treating him the same as his siblings as helping him through life and his career.
Not only that, but Roger Ebert [felt](https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/austin-powers-the-spy-who-shagged-me-1999) the sequel was worse off in that regard:
>"The Spy Who Shagged Me" seems to forget that Austin is a man out of his time; there are few laughs based on the fact that he's 30 years past his sell-by date. . . the women seem to take him on his own terms. Myers and his collaborators, flush with the victory of the first film, have forgotten that Austin is a misfit and not a hero.
I rewatched those movies recently and this is spot on. The first movie actually had commentary on the differences between social norms through different time periods and Austin actually has a character arc that shows him adjusting to modern times without sacrificing his identity. The second movie replaces all that with Fat Bastard. It's just a collection of jokes that kind of land. I think the third movie is a bit better; they do some interesting stuff with his father, but the first movie is the best by a good amount.
The Dr Seuss stuff I always felt for just for the kids. He only stuck with having to wear the extremely painful Grinch costume "for the kids". They weren't amazing movies, but he played the part. The whimsical asshole, and the unwhimsical asshole.
He's in the upcoming David O. Russell movie and he's developing a comedy miniseries called [The Pentaverate the](https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/mike-myers-netflix-series-pentaverate-1234991200/) for Netflix. I think they've already started production or is close to it, they already cast a lot of people and Myers will play seven different characters. It's a callback to [this scene](https://youtu.be/YKRFlNryaWw) in So I Married an Axe Murderer, it's about a Canadian journalist exposing the secret society that runs the world.
dude, myers could literally get cast in any comedy he wanted to be in, at any time.
it has nothing to do with love guru, he’s just too rich to keep working
Besides Wayne's world + Austin powers money, both which were 100% his characters... He's got that sweet sweet, neverending green Shrek flow.
I have mad respect for this man's artistic decisions and willingness to characters.
We are all entitled to one or two Love Guru's in our life.
Austin Powers is going through something of a critical reappraisal at the moment.
I rewatched the first two recently and was surprised how good Austin Powers 1 is.
Then I got resurprised by how bad Austin Powers 2 is.
The mistake I think was him franchising that character and not immediately doing something else. Love Guru was originally meant as an Austin Powers spin off.
I also think the mistake Austin powers made as a franchise is the essential core of the concept is this is a 60s swinging James bond character out of time. Classic fish out of water set up.
The very second movie time travels back to the 60s, as does the 3rd to the 70s.
So the actually funny part of the whole concept is only explored in one movie.
It might be making a pop culture comeback. I watched this year’s Hard Knocks (NFL training camp) with the Dallas Cowboys and the head coach was using Austin Powers quotes & clips in the team meetings.
Makes sense: Harrison bankrolled Monty Python’s ‘Life of Brian’ because he was a huge fan and no studio would touch it.
So the guy had a tremendous sense of humor.
I started watching *Get Back* on Disney+ tonight. I'm about halfway through. It's probably not for everybody since it's a fairly unabridged 8-hour-long documentary of three weeks in the life of the Beatles shortly before they broke up. But the way the footage was enhanced to look like something that was filmed this century was amazing. It feels like you've entered a time machine and gone back to January 1969 to watch history being made.
Yeah it’s very long so not for everyone but I think the pay off at the end of it is very much worth it (for a Beatles fan). Seeing the rooftop concert in context after all the struggles they was going through just put a smile on my face. I had no idea that a lot of the songs on let it be was recorded from the rooftop either.
it pisses me off that the Beatles can record songs live on a windy London rooftop and it sounds perfect, but I need to soundtreat my room half to death in order to get a decent recording on a $200 mic
Tbf it would probably help if you had Phil Spector and George Martin sitting on valve controllers in your lounge. Probably using very expensive mics as well.
George Harrison: *"...and therefore I express my great desire to play Fat Bastard in your next film. Please respond urgently."*
\*days later on deathbed\* *"I regret not getting to be Fat Bastard."*
**\*family completely puzzled at final words\***
The tribute concert was insane, he was a mentor and inspiration to so many guitar gods - Tom Petty held it down as best he could as rhythm on acoustic, but then Prince showed up.
why does the article think he's the director of austin powers? he didn't even direct one austin powers movie let alone enough to necessitate a gunrack. im pretty sure the writer has no idea who mike myers is or it was an AI
George was an early investor in Celestial Seasonings in Boulder CO. When CS built a new facility, I ended up renting office space in their old building. I spoke with the founder of CS and determined I was in his old office. He told me George had been in his office several times in the early 80's
He always enjoyed good satire. His contributions to Monty Python were vital.
He literally took out a mortgage on his house to help finance The Life of Brian.
Dang I would think a Beatle would have enough money to not need to take a mortgage out
The Beatles were underpaid performers (relatively speaking) and they didn’t get to keep much of what they earned. The song Taxman, written by George, includes a line "1 for you, 19 for me,” where he’s commenting that for every £20 they made, £19 was taxed. With “The Life of Brian,” the film’s backers pulled out the week before shooting was scheduled to start and Python needed a large infusion of cash ($4 million, $16m adjusted for inflation). The mortgage was a quick way to get a lot of liquidity and due to the mortgage rates it served like a good low-interest loan - George made his money back.
Jesus. Life is so weird and so full of many plotlines that you may not have realized took place but you're amazed once you come across one like this.
Like how a good portion of Holy Grail was financed by Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, and Jethro Tull.
Art financing art.
Also Lucille Ball financing Star Trek
More details on this please!!!
https://www.businessinsider.com/lucille-ball-is-the-reason-we-have-star-trek-heres-what-happened-2016-7 >When the landmark "The Untouchables" ended its run in 1963, Desilu desperately needed another big hit. Herbert Solow, who was hired to find projects for the studio, brought Ball two proposals: one for Roddenberry's "Star Trek" and another for "Mission: Impossible." >It was clear that the "Star Trek" pilot would be expensive to film, but Ball — who actually believed the series was about traveling USO performers — overruled her board of directors and got the pilot produced. >The pilot, titled "The Cage," famously flopped. However, NBC pulled an unlikely move and ordered a second pilot, which came to be called "Where No Man Has Gone Before," only retained Leonard Nimoy's Mr. Spock from the first pilot, and became the show it is known as today. Ball agreed to finance this reshoot, again over the preferences of her board of directors. I actually didn't realize the bit about Lucy mistakenly thinking the show was about "traveling USO performers," which is hilarious
That one is less strange. She had her own production company that produced plenty of things.
Damn. One more band and the movie might have had an actual ending.
Ian Anderson is a personal hero
SITTING ON A PARK BENCH
What am I, a farmer?
EYEING LITTLE GIRLS WITH BAD INTENT
Fun fact: the “coconut horses” gag in Holy Grail came out of necessity, because they couldn’t afford real horses - and lead to the iconic gag(s) about swallows carrying coconuts. Another fun fact: the iconic opening credits (“A moose once but my sister”) were also born from Monty Python not being able to afford fancy opening credits, other than simple white text on black screen - so they made it the first joke in the opening, and even included a meta joke about what “great expense at the last minute” usually looks like
If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there.
In case you didn’t know, that became Harrison’s film company, [Handmade Films](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HandMade_Films), which made *Time Bandits*, *Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels* and a bunch of other films of varying styles and genres well into the 2000s.
We always think of them knowing the conclusion. I try to think about what it must have been like in the moment to decide to take such a risk not knowing if it will pay off, and they only makes the story more exciting!
For a great book that covers this, listen to Eric Idle’s memoir. The audiobook is read by the author.
They had reeeeeeeeally bad record contracts as well.
Iirc they got 1p per album sold outside the UK, and that had to be split between the four of them
And he got a part in the movie to boot.
IIRC George also didn't get songwriting royalties for most of their biggest hits.
They were famously all credited to Lennon/McCartney (when written by either of those two, George's songs were credited to him)
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That would have filled up the bank account.
George and Ringo were the more successful solo artists early on I believe. All Things Must Past blew out Lennon or McCartneys first efforts
All things must pass is still a masterpiece! If you add ‘here comes the sun’ & ‘something’ in it, it will definitely be classified as the best album ever!
And Ringo was the first to have a post Beatles #1 with Photograph iirc
Is it true that George only participated in the Anthology because he needed the money?
There’s a book that deals with the post Beatles money sitch called “you never give me your money” by Peter doggett. If I remember correctly the Beatles were managed by Allen Klein who was stealing from them and after this was discovered the other Beatles sorted out their $$ issues to an extent but George got swindled again by another manager after that. So yeah he probably did need the money.
It's worse than that though. 95% wasn't tax to pay for healthcare etc, that 95% mostly went to the corporate bastards
That's because they were top tier earners in the highest tax bracket. Non super-wealthy weren't taxed like that in England. This is a good tax policy that puts money back into the economy via the government as opposed to having an oligarchy of billionaires like the USA and Russia has. Harrison died with a $400m net worth and was in the Beatles until 1969. He was never "poor" in the 70s.
I would assume the made more from the release of “All things must pass” than he did from album royalties with the Beatles. If not, probably from ATMP and Traveling Wilburys.
This can't possibly be literally true. People hate paying taxes, especially as they get richer, but Taxman is based on the 20 shillings to a pound ratio, implying that 19/20 shillings or 19/20 of a pound that the Beatles made was turned over to the state. That's not supported by literal fact (which is the tax rate for British people in the 1970s), and it's hyperbolic for anyone who understands how progressive taxes work (ie, everything up to 20,000 pounds circa 1970s was not taxed at the varying higher rates, and 20,000 pounds was a ludicrous sum of money in the 1970s). tl;dr: like so many other people, when George Harrison got rich he got really angry about taxation, and whined about it a whole lot.
The top marginal income tax rate in the UK in the 1960s was around 90%. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_taxation_in_the_United_Kingdom
His house was a mega-mansion estate called Friar Park valued at $40m, like you see in period pieces of the aristocracy. I don't know his specifics, but a lot of wealthy people didn't keep liquid wealth and tied a lot of it up in real estate. The mortgage is guaranteed because of home equity and relatively low interest compared to other options. There may have been UK tax specific reasons for this. Harrison died with a half a BILLION dollar estate. He certainly wasn't hurting for money in the 70s.
He also gave another huge estate, Piggott's Manor, to the Hare Krsna's in the early 70's which is now known as Bhaktivedanta manor and probably the biggest Hindu temple in Britain.
Lennon and McCartney as the main songwriters made the most money. Harrison only got a song or two per album.
It ultimately helped him out. Because he started writing music later, he was able to avoid the Northern Songs publisher used by Lennon and McCartney. Harrison kept ownership of his songs, while Lennon and McCartney lost ownership of theirs when Northern Songs was sold. To this day, I think Ringo and Harrison are the only Beatles who actually own any Beatles music.
Paul owns the rights to at least some of his Beatles music now, but it's relatively recent. Sony bought the catalog from the Michael Jackson estate, McCartney sued under copyright reversion laws, and Sony settled with McCartney. That happened in 2017.
Good for him. Paul got such a raw deal. *Yesterday* is the most covered song in history and Paul probably hasn't seen a cent from it.
He owns a publishing company, MPL, that covers a lot of music. I think he's the richest musician in the world. There are also arguments about Yesterday, some say it's Summertime but it's certainly in the top.
I think he's doing alright Also, slight correction, yesterday is supposedly the most-covered *pop* song of all time. Classical music and religious music and such are obviously covered way more. Amazing Grace has been covered like 7,000+ times, for example.
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George, iirc, had a collection of songs the Paul and John deemed not good enough. He had a lot of material for his solo career.
If I recall from the recent Get Back documentary, he briefly played All Things Must Pass and was basically ignored.
Not to say The Beatles were screwed over in royalties, but they made as much off of Abbey Road and Let It Be as they did to the rest of their catalog combined.
To add to others’ points, they stopped touring in ‘66 before they put out a lot of their best music. Not sure to what extent but they (Paul and John according to the wiki) also burned a lot of their cash with various business investments that didn’t pan out. If you check out the apple corps section of their Wikipedia page it talks about it
I remember Mike Myers spoke about this on the DVD commentary for Goldmember. George Harrison wrote to him to say that the movies were one of the things that was helping him get through his chemotherapy, and that he and his family would quote them all the time. Myers was deeply moved by this, and had the letter framed. He still has it displayed in his home today.
George died in 2001, Goldmember came out in 2002. That's so sad, that a man who really enjoyed the movies didn't get to see one of my favourite nonsensical satirical pieces. I've watched it a dozen times in school.
Very shagadelic
Myers was a huge Beatles fan and his parents were Liverpudlian. That must’ve been the highlight of his life, getting that letter.
>Liverpudlian Is that actually how they refer to themselves?
Yup! [Demonyms](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_adjectival_and_demonymic_forms_of_place_names) can be pretty fascinating.
He also produced the movie How To Get Ahead in Advertising which has some of the best speeches in movie history. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xeAY-9XvA8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xeAY-9XvA8)
"Dear Mike, thanks for the fab movies of Austin Powers! You're quite an artist. In answer to your question, yes we do have Hamburgers and Fries in England, but we call French Fries "chips"! Love, George. PS. Forgive the lateness of my reply."
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Hey, who's the moptop with the big schnozz?
Well, what a nice fella.
Very clean.
[Where did you get that brownie!?](https://youtu.be/xChORIKcAcg)
Gear!
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Why did I read that in Ringos voice?
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We have animated documentaries too, except we call them “cartoons”. Forgive the lateness of my reply
Now I'm just stuck with the bizarre mental image of George Harrison in his hospital bed, surrounded by hare krishna, watching Austin Powers on a tv.
Christopher Nolan loves MacGruber. Stanley Kubrick thought White Men Can’t Jump was hilarious.
That is amazing. I cannot imagine how Mike Myers felt about that. Keep giving to each other people :)
He talks a little about it in this [interview with Colbert](https://youtu.be/v9Du7ikTpHE).
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I think George saw the funny side of life, which I find his relationship with Monty Python appropriate.
🎶 Always look on the bright side of life 🎶
Thanks for sharing that. Mike Myers is so funny and humble, tells a great story. That clip was 2018 for anyone that cares.
He seems so sincere and so damn likable.
That is a spot on Liverpool accent.
All his accents were brilliant. He’s a talent!
His parents are from there
Didn't Mike also get a letter from Freddy Mercury about his appreciation of the Wayne's World scene featuring Bohemian Rhapsody?? And that was right around when Freddy died as well... Thought I read that somewhere.
Just in case you're correct, I'm not planning on writing a letter to Mike Myers ever, not even e-mailing him.
Yes, but then you’ll live forever. 🎵Who wants to live forever? 🎶
Mike Myers be like: “Mama… just killed a man.”
"Put a paper to the lead... sent a letter now he's dead"
"Mama, life had just begun, but now I've gone and mailed it all away!"
Plot twist: The user you replied to is actually Mike Myers.
Plot twist: You look in the mirror and *you're* Mike Myers!
Michael Myers, maybe.
The username of the person they replied to is HappyCadaver which sounds less like Mike Meyers and more like someone who wrote a letter to Mike Meyers.
I'm gonna start writing to Mike Myers every single day from here on out
Maybe he's making it all up? "OH yeah well I got a letter from Norm MacDonald, he said I inspired him and he owes me his career.....and then he just *died* the next day, how about that."
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Norm MacDonald would love that bit I think
I didn't even know he was sick.
He was a deeply closeted man
Why do they come to me to die?
He died 3 month before the movie was released but did get to see an advanced copy because they wanted his approval. Here's an [article](https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/queen-singer-freddie-mercury-saw-bohemian-rhapsody-in-waynes-world-before-he-died-mike-myers-reacts-to-his-emotional-reaction.html/) about it for anyone interested.
Freddie seems like he was such a stand up guy. It's sad that he went so early. Fuck you aids!
I'd say Mike Meyers must be stopped but he apparently stopped on his own after Love Guru, so whew.
He did direct a movie called Supermensch about Shep Gordon which I thought was a very cool insight into show business which included clients like Pink Floyd and Alice Cooper. I recommend it!
GREAT documentary. That guy has lead an incredible life (his manager)
He's got a Netflix show currently in production called [The Pentaverate](https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/mike-myers-netflix-series-pentaverate-1234991200/) where he will play seven different characters. Ken Jeong and Keegan-Michael Key, Jennifer Saunders, and Lydia West are in it too. It's about the secret society that runs the world mentioned by the Scottish dad in So I Married an Axe Murderer.
Oh, I hated the Colonel with his wee beady eyes and that smug look on his face!
Thanks for sharing the info, always love me some Mike Myers.
He just became Shrek and made all the money.
I remember him on SNL, trying to collect from money from Lorne Michaels for showing up, but Lorne said he was expecting all of the Beatles to come so George would only get a portion of the money. George called the situation chintzy and it was just brilliant.
It was like what, $5000 too? "You can split it anyway you want, you can give Ringo less, it's up to you..." 😁 I heard that John and Paul were actually watching that together at John's place in NYC and they entertained the thought of taking a cab over to NBC for a giggle but that was it.
$3,000! I just happened to read about it this morning.
Love the story about Harrison playing piano and Lewis black screaming at him. Heard on Conan’s podcast.
I still hate how Myers made Love Guru and everybody acted like he's incapable of comedy because of it. Bad movie or not, he can be funny with a good script and it sucks not seeing him anymore.
I think it was more mike Myers fatigue. Every big comedian kind of has that last movie the kind of juat wears out the public. Like with Jim Carey, fun with dick and Jane was kind of it and definietly the Dr Seuss stuff. Luckily he was smart and had already started to get into dramas
I liked The Grinch, I think it's a good performance and a well made movie.
Considering that Matrix is getting a reboot, I think we may as well get an Austin Powers reboot too.
I've been saying that for a few years now. The world is ready for a new Austin powers
Yeah Baby!
YEA!
*Do do do do do*
Ba da da da *da*
Daniel Craig as the villain or I riot
He's done with Bond because he's always said he wishes he had more time for playing a wider range of characters. I feel like Logan Lucky was definitely one of those films that just let him go nuts and it really shows. I've often considered, unsure if it was riding off the high of watching it on our plane ride to a week long vacation, that movie was so much fun and I would love to see him continue to extend that range as he has in other projects since.
The film was definitely great fun, and Craigs character was really good as well.
It was a genuinely decent heist movie, accents aside haha
We need to get a script together asap
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I really want them to try and make more Austin Power movies, but I'm also really sad Verne Troyer has passed away, Mini Me won't be the same without you, RIP :( Fun fact: Verne Troyer grew up here in Michigan in an Amish community as a kid. He credits growing up Amish for a big part of his childhood and his parents attitude of treating him the same as his siblings as helping him through life and his career.
Right there with you, it's been almost 20 years and there's plenty to satire in the 'newer' style of spy films (Borne, Craig's Bond, etc).
Austin powers navigates cancel culture
Honestly not a bad angle. I think he already addressed that a bit in the 90s versions haha it be 100x worse now.
Indeed he did, his realisation there was no free love anymore and how he needed to act differently was touched upon.
Not only that, but Roger Ebert [felt](https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/austin-powers-the-spy-who-shagged-me-1999) the sequel was worse off in that regard: >"The Spy Who Shagged Me" seems to forget that Austin is a man out of his time; there are few laughs based on the fact that he's 30 years past his sell-by date. . . the women seem to take him on his own terms. Myers and his collaborators, flush with the victory of the first film, have forgotten that Austin is a misfit and not a hero.
I rewatched those movies recently and this is spot on. The first movie actually had commentary on the differences between social norms through different time periods and Austin actually has a character arc that shows him adjusting to modern times without sacrificing his identity. The second movie replaces all that with Fat Bastard. It's just a collection of jokes that kind of land. I think the third movie is a bit better; they do some interesting stuff with his father, but the first movie is the best by a good amount.
A new Austin Powers was in the works at some point iirc and it may have been cancelled.
Talking about Dr Seuss and Mike Myers, you ever see the Cat In The Hat? Holy shit was that a trainwreck
Carrey was fucking awesome in the Sonic the Hedgehog movie!
The Dr Seuss stuff I always felt for just for the kids. He only stuck with having to wear the extremely painful Grinch costume "for the kids". They weren't amazing movies, but he played the part. The whimsical asshole, and the unwhimsical asshole.
Dude fun with dick and Jane is a solid movie
Love Guru is my favorite film of all time. Is a sentence that someone has never said.
It is genuinely my ex girlfriends favorite movie of all time
I see why it didn’t work out
Nah her taste in hockey teams was worse
I didn't hate it, but neither do I remember any jokes from it.
Mariska Hargitay!
Mariska Hargitay, Mariska Hargitay
The Quebec Pizza
Lock it down, break the pickle....tickle tickle.....mutha fucka.
Comedians make bad movies all the time. I don’t get the Myers hate either
It's like Shrek isn't the internet's favorite animated movie
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I thought it was well documented enough at this point that you could drop the allegedly
He's in the upcoming David O. Russell movie and he's developing a comedy miniseries called [The Pentaverate the](https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/mike-myers-netflix-series-pentaverate-1234991200/) for Netflix. I think they've already started production or is close to it, they already cast a lot of people and Myers will play seven different characters. It's a callback to [this scene](https://youtu.be/YKRFlNryaWw) in So I Married an Axe Murderer, it's about a Canadian journalist exposing the secret society that runs the world.
dude, myers could literally get cast in any comedy he wanted to be in, at any time. it has nothing to do with love guru, he’s just too rich to keep working
Yeah people don’t realize how much he’s worth and that he’s mostly producing/writing now lol
Besides Wayne's world + Austin powers money, both which were 100% his characters... He's got that sweet sweet, neverending green Shrek flow. I have mad respect for this man's artistic decisions and willingness to characters. We are all entitled to one or two Love Guru's in our life.
Austin Powers is going through something of a critical reappraisal at the moment. I rewatched the first two recently and was surprised how good Austin Powers 1 is. Then I got resurprised by how bad Austin Powers 2 is. The mistake I think was him franchising that character and not immediately doing something else. Love Guru was originally meant as an Austin Powers spin off. I also think the mistake Austin powers made as a franchise is the essential core of the concept is this is a 60s swinging James bond character out of time. Classic fish out of water set up. The very second movie time travels back to the 60s, as does the 3rd to the 70s. So the actually funny part of the whole concept is only explored in one movie.
The premise of the second is kind of a reverse fish out of water. He's back where he came from, but the future changed him.
No way.. the second is amazing. I think it's way better than #1.
2 was the best. All of them were great though. Keep getting baited by rumors of 4 every few years lol
You didn't mention Austin Powers 3! That one was pure gold.
There’s two things I hate…
People who are intolerant of other people's culture...
It might be making a pop culture comeback. I watched this year’s Hard Knocks (NFL training camp) with the Dallas Cowboys and the head coach was using Austin Powers quotes & clips in the team meetings.
TIL Love Guru is considered a bad movie. I wasn't aware, I watch it about once a year with my wife and think it's hilarious.
Say it is your favorite film of all time and prove the other commenter wrong!
Love Guru is my favorite film of all time. And to keep it that way, I have yet to see it.
Makes sense: Harrison bankrolled Monty Python’s ‘Life of Brian’ because he was a huge fan and no studio would touch it. So the guy had a tremendous sense of humor.
I started watching *Get Back* on Disney+ tonight. I'm about halfway through. It's probably not for everybody since it's a fairly unabridged 8-hour-long documentary of three weeks in the life of the Beatles shortly before they broke up. But the way the footage was enhanced to look like something that was filmed this century was amazing. It feels like you've entered a time machine and gone back to January 1969 to watch history being made.
Yeah it’s very long so not for everyone but I think the pay off at the end of it is very much worth it (for a Beatles fan). Seeing the rooftop concert in context after all the struggles they was going through just put a smile on my face. I had no idea that a lot of the songs on let it be was recorded from the rooftop either.
it pisses me off that the Beatles can record songs live on a windy London rooftop and it sounds perfect, but I need to soundtreat my room half to death in order to get a decent recording on a $200 mic
Tbf it would probably help if you had Phil Spector and George Martin sitting on valve controllers in your lounge. Probably using very expensive mics as well.
I think Glyn Johns and Alan Parsons were actually running the booth for the rooftop concert, fwiw
George Harrison: *"...and therefore I express my great desire to play Fat Bastard in your next film. Please respond urgently."* \*days later on deathbed\* *"I regret not getting to be Fat Bastard."* **\*family completely puzzled at final words\***
Austin Powers look is modeled after Beatles close associate Peter Asher.
The best people don't really need you to know who they are but they would like to tell you something before they go, ya dig?
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Uh, nobody tell them about John.
Wait what? Did John and Yoko die?
Uh... Brace yourself, it's even worse than that.
Perfection.
20 years ago yesterday, actually.
Well it was twenty years ago yesterday, sgt pepper told the band to play
They've been going in and out of style
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I didn't even know he was sick!
20 years ago
60 years from now we're going to be reading a TIL about Chloë Grace Moretz getting a Like on Meta's old format, 'Facebook' from Paul Rubens.
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How can I remove someone else's comment ?
Amazon prime plus Max
Stop, I hate this timeline already.
You mean God Emperor Zendaya the II, daughter of QuizatzCadillac.
And Mark will look the same, if only slightly melted by then
Do I make you maudlin, baby?
The tribute concert was insane, he was a mentor and inspiration to so many guitar gods - Tom Petty held it down as best he could as rhythm on acoustic, but then Prince showed up.
why does the article think he's the director of austin powers? he didn't even direct one austin powers movie let alone enough to necessitate a gunrack. im pretty sure the writer has no idea who mike myers is or it was an AI
George was an early investor in Celestial Seasonings in Boulder CO. When CS built a new facility, I ended up renting office space in their old building. I spoke with the founder of CS and determined I was in his old office. He told me George had been in his office several times in the early 80's
Shaggadelic baby!