"The Rock is going to be an NHL hockey player named 'The Tooth Fairy,' and you can imagine why they call him the 'Tooth Fairy,'" said Ellis. "He's an enforcer-type character, and sometimes when he hits another player their teeth come ajar and land on the ice."

"Johnson will play an ordinary man who's brought in to try to save the tooth fairy kingdom."

"A guy is forced to serve time dressed up as a tooth fairy."

'The Rock' to Star in Hockey Movie? originally appeared on NHL FanHouse on Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:18:00 EST . Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jessica Alba was hot... Justin Timberlake was funny... and Vern Troyer proved he can sorta act... but anyway you slice it, midgets equal funny. The hockey scenes were lame (Oh yeah... the movie is about a black superstar hockey player that can't play anymore because the goalie of the opposing team stole his wife and the Toronto Maple Leafs pay a Guru to get them back together. However, the guru has his own agenda to be the worlds greatest Guru so he needs to get on Oprah and figures if he can do this she will put him on) and the last time I checked i thought there were more than 7 or 8 guys on a team... but i suppose that doesn't matter. Thats about all I have to say about the movie. It was not really memorable like the Austin Powers movies... but it wasn't an unpleasant experience by far.

The supporting cast basically add up to a list of extended cameos, but when it comes to the previous Myers flicks, the cameos most often were the bits that I laughed at the most. Notably, The Maple Leafs announcers are played by Jim Jim Gaffigan and Stephen Colbert, and they brought down the house. I could have watched an entire movie with Colbert's cracked out announcer baiting Jim Gaffigan, but hopefully there's more footage that will be released on DVD. There's also a moment with Myers being interviewed as himself as a spectator at the Leafs' game that was [nasty, non-FanHouse friendly word deleted] fantastic. I won't ruin it here, but I'm sure you can guess who else he's being interviewed with.

The Early Word on 'The Love Guru' originally appeared on NHL FanHouse on Fri, 04 Apr 2008 10:50:00 EST . Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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He was introduced to hockey through his older brother Dennis, the acid-tongued comic and former announcer on "Monday Night Football" who now has a radio show and a game show on TV. "Dennis took me to my first game, and I got bitten by the hockey bug," Miller said. "It's my favorite sport to see live."

The original script for "She's out of My League" had its hockey scene happening in Phoenix. But it seemed natural to tweak it and move it to Pittsburgh, where both the Penguins and city officials were quite receptive to movie-making at the arena.

Romantic Comedy for the Penguins, Thanks to Dennis Miller's Brother originally appeared on NHL FanHouse on Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:10:00 EST . Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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"The premise is similar to the pay-it-forward idea," Gavin Maloof said. "They have to try to help as many people as possible."

[...] "It's incredible the amount of organizations and people they were able to help," Maloof said of his experience on the show, which was previously taped. "It's an incredible, invigorating show. It was one of the greatest experiences I've had."

The Maloofs Are Giving Away Money originally appeared on NHL FanHouse on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 07:00:00 EST . Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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• Sexy Babe, Sexy Beast Join Mike Myers Hockey Comedy
• Timberlake to Star with Alba in Hockey Flick
• Jessica Alba: World's Hottest Hockey Owner

Jessica Alba, French Timberlake and Mike Myers Hockey Comedy originally appeared on NHL FanHouse on Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:30:00 EST . Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Very much in the tradition of "Slap Shot," George Roy Hill's raucously funny and foul-mouthed 1977 laffer about the misadventures of a minor-league hockey team, "Semi-Pro" scores big laughs with the rowdy play-by-play of hard-luck hoopsters struggling for professional survival. For some auds, Will Ferrell doing a full-court press in a white-guy afro alone will be worth the price of admission.

I haven't seen the film -- although I plan to -- but the production photo above certainly evokes memories of that classic scene in "Slap Shot" when Denis Lemieux broke the game down. ("Icing happen when the puck come down, bang, you know, before the other guy.") Where I think most critics get it wrong is when they reduce "Slap Shot" to a "raucously funny and foul-mouthed" film, forgetting its keen observations about sex, aging and self-identity. All due respect to the screenwriter on "Semi-Pro," but somehow I doubt the man who also gave the world "Old School" and "Road Trip" will be able to match Nancy Dowd's nuance. The real question, however, when it comes to "Semi-Pro" and "Slap Shot": Which extra in the new Will Ferrell movie will end up coaching the Wizards in 30 years?

Update: The reviews are in. Twenty-seven percent on the Rotten Tomatometer as of Friday morning. This is "Bewitched" bad.

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This is the teaser poster for the new Mike Myers comedy "The Love Guru," which is due out this summer. We've been covering its journey to a sticky-floored theater near you here on FanHouse for four reasons:

• 1. There's always the chance that this film will produce an iconic comedic figure like Austin Powers or Wayne Campbell rather than an annoying and then completely forgettable creation like "The Cat in the Hat."
• 2. Jessica Alba is in the film.
• 3. The NHL, and hockey in general, play a central role in the plot.
• 4. Jessica Alba is in the film.

The Love Guru is about an American child named Pitka whose upbringing in an Indian ashram prepares him for life as one of those self-help kooks. Pitka's expertise is called upon to help resolve marital discord between Darren Roanoke, the star center of the Toronto Maple Leafs (Romany Malco), and his wife. When Roanoke's wife takes up with Jacques Grande (Justin Timberlake), a rival player from the Los Angeles Kings, the Maple Leafs' star falls into a slump. The only way for the Leafs to salvage their season is for Pitka to reunite Roanoke with his wife. I'm already in stitches.

In the days before the Hollywood writers' strike, Kevin Connolly, who stars in the HBO series Entourage, was discussing the idea of producing a show about the life of a hockey minor-leaguer with an agent and NHL players Mathieu Schneider and Anson Carter. With the strike settled, it's possible they may revisit that idea in coming weeks.

The concept for what could be a character-driven show came from a night in Toronto when the Maple Leafs honoured goalie Ed Belfour, says a person familiar with the matter.

"Hockey wouldn't be the focus of the show; it'd be about the characters in the sport," the person says. "You looked at (Belfour's) wife's face that night of the ceremony, and it was like it had just hit her and she was thinking, `Oh my god, this means he's going to be around the house now all the time.'"

Austin Powers, Eric Murphy Embrace the Puck originally appeared on NHL FanHouse on Sun, 17 Feb 2008 20:24:00 EST . Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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While "Sports Unfiltered" will tackle tough issues in sports, "it's also going to be comedic and sarcastic," Smith said. "It won't be as out there as 'The Daily Show,' but we're going to have fun."

Segs will include Miller's rant, a "Weekend Update"-style review of the week's headlines and interviews with newsmakers. "I'll call 'em as I see 'em, and hopefully, I'll see 'em better than the home plate ump in the San Diego Padres-Colorado Rockies tiebreaker game," Miller said.

Dennis Miller: Finally, Someone on Versus Who May Not Automatically Induce Sleep originally appeared on NHL FanHouse on Thu, 04 Oct 2007 23:44:00 EST . Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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