No love for Mike Myers's Guru

Hindu groups in India are calling for Mike Myers's film The Love Guru to be banned in India because they say it "appears to be lampooning Hinduism."

The trailers for the comedy, in which Myers plays a guru sent to solve the love problems of a Toronto Maple Leafs player, have also set off alarm bells among U.S.-based Hindus.

U.S.-based Hindus who had viewed the trailer said they thought Myers's portrayal of a spiritual guru potentially offensive and religiously insensitive.

In India, the fear is that the film would "hurt the feelings of the worldwide spiritual and Hindu community," according to Hindu organization Janjagruti Samiti and Sanatan Society for Scientific Spirituality of Bombay.

Some Hindu groups have said they will make a request to India's Central Board of Film Certification and Ministry of Information and Broadcasting to keep the film out of India.

However, the film certification board says it has not yet received a complaint about the film.

There has been little love for Guru in Britain, too. The British Film Institute has assured Hindu groups there that it will not screen the film.

That just keeps The Love Guru out of the institute, not out of Britain.

Myers, the Canadian-born comedian who created Wayne's World and Austin Powers, plays an American man raised in India by gurus and trying to break into the self-help business in the U.S.

Directed by Marco Schnabel, the film also stars Ben Kingsley, Jessica Alba and Justin Timberlake.

The comedy also appears to lampoon hockey players and Canadians.

It is scheduled for release June 20 in North America.

New Weezer Album Coming Early

The release date of Weezer's sixth album has been pushed up from June 24 to June 3. The album, which will be the band's third self-titled CD, is being released a few weeks early due to popular demand and the intense reaction to the first single, "Pork and Beans," according to a statement on the band's website. However, some speculate it's being released three weeks early because several songs from the album have been leaked online, according to published reports.

The standard and deluxe versions of "Weezer"--which is being referred to as "The Red Album" to differentiate it from the previous self-titled releases--can be pre-ordered at Apple's iTunes store. The deluxe version will initially be available in digital form only. The release date for the physical deluxe version has not been announced.

The video for "Pork and Beans" is expected to surface in the coming weeks.

'Speed' Director Surfs to 'Point Break' Sequel

Whoa. Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze's crime-surf classic "Point Break" is finally getting a sequel, with director Jan de Bont at the helm.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, original screenwriter W. Peter Iliff is returning to script the sequel, which will move the action to Singapore and locations in Southeast Asia.

The trade paper offers no hints on which characters, if any, will return.

Directed by Kathryn Bigelow, the 1991 original starred Reeves as an FBI Agent -- the fabulously named Johnny Utah -- who goes undercover with a gang of adrenaline junkies who rob banks when they aren't surfing or jumping out of planes. Swayze has been trying for years to explain how his Bodhi character, last seen paddling out into the gnarliest waves ever, could be back for a sequel, though the trade paper does say that the movie will take place 20 years after Bodhi's disappearance.

After a long run as an acclaimed cinematographer, de Bont shot onto the directing A-list with the hits "Speed" and "Twister." His three follow-up films -- "Speed 2: Cruise Control," "The Haunting" and "Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life" -- have been less successful and he hasn't directed a film since 2003.

Marisa Miller's model year just got 'Maxim' exposure

Marisa Miller, 29, might just be having the best year ever. She landed the coveted Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue cover in February, she's going into her seventh year as a Victoria's Secret model, and now she's the first to debut at No. 1 on the Maxim Hot 100 List.

Models are "constantly competing for campaigns and magazine covers as the industry really changes and becomes celebrity-saturated," the California native says. "So to get that kind of notoriety now is really, really incredible."

Maxim editorial director James Kaminsky says 2008 is indeed the year of Miller. "She represents the return of the great American supermodel, and she's veering towards ubiquity," he says. "But in a really great way."

In addition to basking in the glow of her newly appointed hotness, Miller is developing a shoe line with Vans and supporting the Young Survival Coalition, which promotes breast cancer awareness among women in their 20s and 30s.

And although Miller, who's married to movie producer Griffin Guess, calls the past year "a dream come true," she's more than willing to share the spotlight.

She says there are plenty of women she'd pull into the Maxim top 10 with her, including fellow Victoria's Secret angel Heidi Klum and a slew of vintage supermodels.

"Cindy Crawford, Christie Brinkley, Stephanie Seymour; I really like the (classic) American supermodels," she says. But "how do you pick? There's so many gorgeous girls."

Jackson's 'Thriller' among cultural treasures

WASHINGTON - The best-selling pop album on planet Earth and a disc sent hurtling into deep space are among recordings the Library of Congress will preserve for their cultural significance.

Twenty-five selections were added to the National Recording Registry on Wednesday, part of the library's attempt to save America's aural history by archiving recordings deemed "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant."

The inductees range from Michael Jackson's 1982 all-time-bestseller "Thriller" and jazz artist Herbie Hancock's 1973 fusion smash "Headhunters" to the 1977 record of Earth sounds that flew aboard the spacecraft Voyager in the event alien life forms encountered the craft. Other recordings added to the registry include works by Roy Orbison, Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington, Kitty Wells and Smokey Robinson and the Miracles.

A collection of Navajo songs, Harry Truman's 1948 Democratic National Convention speech, radio broadcasts from Ronald Reagan before he became president, and the original cast recording of "My Fair Lady" also made the cut, as did broadcasts of New York Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia reading comics to children during a 1945 newspaper delivery strike.

A recording of the first trans-Atlantic broadcast — an orchestral performance transmitted from London and relayed to the U.S. East Coast in 1925 — also was included because it represented a technological breakthrough in broadcasting.

The Library of Congress chooses 25 recordings each year to add to its registry and preserve. Nominations come from a Library of Congress preservation board and online suggestions from the public. The selections for 2007 bring the registry's total to 250.

Postage stamp puts Sinatra back in the spotlight

NEW YORK - Frank Sinatra competed against 50,000 others — and won.

That's how many annual proposals are made for new U.S. postage stamps. The late crooner's face appeared on one of them Tuesday, with Frank Sinatra Jr. on hand to honor his father's memory.

"When we have the U.S. Postal Service making the announcement that there are 50,000 suggestions per year, out of which 20 are selected — if that isn't the very embodiment of the American Dream, well, I don't know what is," Sinatra Jr. said at a ceremony in Manhattan.

"He was a fellow off the streets of Hoboken, N.J.," he said.

The 42-cent Sinatra stamp went on sale Tuesday in New York, Las Vegas and Hoboken, where Sinatra was born. New York and Las Vegas were among his favorite haunts.

His daughter Tina Sinatra joined Postal Service governor James Bilbray in a dedication ceremony Tuesday in Las Vegas.

The entertainer died 10 years ago this week.