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Live Lobster (Wed -Sat1 1 995 Complete Dinner 4 p.m.-6 p.m. 1/2 Off Cocktail Prices Your Host: (Bruno 3erjuson 935 W. 11 Mile Rd. S.E. Corner 11 Mile & 1 75 - 248-399-5960 * Not good with any other offer. DETROIT JEWISH MEWS 7/23 1999 J 92 Detroit Jewish News CLASSIFIEDS GET RESULTS! Call (248)354,5959 All In The 1Vlishpacha Mike Myers adores his Jewish wife and is crazy about her mother, too. PHILIP BERK Special to the Jewish News . • - . • • : 111 eet Mike Myers, hon- orary Jew. As Austin Powers, he's won the hearts of half the Western world. At a press conference at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif., he's even more lovable and cuddly than he appears on screen. And without a care in the world — for which he credits his Jewish wife, Robin Ruza, whom he met 12 years ago and married in 1993. He was happy to answer some questions about what it's like to be married to a nice Jewish girl. JN: What makes your marriage so good? M/VI: "It's simple. Robin's much more talented than I am. She does most of the writing. I make coffee. But really, my wife is a master of what she calls the mishpacha arts. Do you know what I mean? She knows people. I call her sodium pentothal in human form. She just puts people at their ease. You meet Robin and within minutes, you're confessing crimes. I've seen it happen. We're at a bus stop and somebody's crying on my wife's shoulder. She just understands people's agendas. I'll go, "God I think [so-and-so] hates me, and she does." "She doesn't hate you," Robin will answer. "Go over and wish her happy birthday." I'm like, what? And then I go over and say "Happy Birthday" and [so- and-so] will go, "Oh thank you. It's my birthday. I thought nobody would say happy birthday. Robin just knows on some level the way of the heart. to us is, despite different backgrounds and households, we share an almost identical set of values. It's amazing how much we are alike. We both believe people should be nice to each other. I wish people would get sillier. I think that silly is important. People should lighten up, and that would solve just about everything. "Despite different backgrounds and households, [Robin and I] share an almost identical set of values." — Mike Myers " JN: Was it difficult overcoming your cultural and religious differences? MM: I happen to be Protestant from Canada of English heritage, and my wife is Jewish American of Russian- Polish heritage, but what became clear Philip Berk, a former president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, is film critic for the Los Angeles Jewish Times. JN: Robin's mother inspired one of your most celebrated creations, Linda Richman, the "50-year-old Jewish lady from Queens." Your mother-in- law also has a small role in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me. How did that come about? MM: She's in the opening credits. She plays a nun. When we were filming the scene, she asked, "What's that sound?" I go, "I don't hear anything." And she says, "That's the sound of my mother rotating in her grave." JN: Did she insist on playing that role? MM:: My mother-in-law can have any- thing she wants. She's a goddess. Whatever she wants is OK with me. The first thing she said to me when we met was, "Look at that punim (Yiddish for face)! You look like Kevin Bacon. Great! My daughter is going out with a goy. Fabulous! You're a goy, right. You're a drinker? Fix yourself a bowl of scotch." JN: What does she think of Linda Richman? MM: She loves it. When I first met her I'd imitate her speech. I'd say "Kawfy, kawfv." When people would ask what's she like, I'd say "This is how she talks." And that's how Linda Richman happened. JN: What did your family think of you marrying a Jewish girl? MM: Well, its funny. I have an aunt in Liverpool. I come from very poor Liverpool stock. I've had the fortune of being employed in movies, and, there- fore, I've made more money than my entire gene pool. So when I rook Robin to Liverpool to meet my family there, I didn't know how they would react. I told her, "Look Robin, I'm very working class. I don't know what they're going to say. They might say things they don't realize are anti- Semitic. But please, they're good peo- ple, [just] not so educated." My Aunt Milly is the matriarch. She was 96 at the time; she was born in 1901. "Robin," she asks, "where were you christened?" And like, we're- all out for drinks. There are 40 people from my family, all with my face, and I cringe. My stomach goes wham to the bottom. And Robin responds, "Well Aunt Milly, actually I'm Jewish." And my aunt goes, "Oh, I love Jews. Every girlfriend I've ever had was a Jew. They use to call me the Yiddishe shiksa." And she just gave Robin a big hug and a kiss and everybody was like, "Ooh, she's Jewish!" And it was great. I almost cried because I grew up in Canada, and I did- n't know how they were going to react. It was a really wonderful experience. And it was the same with Robin's