At one time he was just about
everywhere but now he says, how am I going to miss you if you don’t go anywhere?
He must also be filthy rich now to have the confidence to say something like
that. In the 1980’s and 90’s Mike was the face that launched a thousand catch phrases
that are now phone rings and other messaging phrases like his” Yeah Baby “from Austin Powers and “she
was a babe swing” from Wayne’s World. .The Austin Powers movies alone took in more
than half a Billion dollars worldwide.
Mike says that his favorite
character he played was Dr. Evil because he always loved the Bond movie type villains.
They had a habit of saying before I kill you, let me tell you my plan. Funny. And
why? But it was Wayne’s World, Mike’s first film that changed his life forever.
The movie based on a Saturday Night Live sketch was full of real rock stars
including Alice Cooper who was associated with Shep Gordon who turned out to be a big time talent
manager with clients like Teddy Pendercrast and Blondie. Thus a very valuable
friendship started.
It was Shep Gordon who let Mike
use his Hawaii home to grieve and recover and who became the subject of his
movie called SuperMensch. It was the story of Shep’s career from his early days
with Jimi Hendrix to parties at his Maui Estate. Mike then went on to making
all his successful movies. His latest
outing is his appearance on a Canadian postage stamp. The only other person whose image is on
Canadian postage stamps is their Queen. Who knew?
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