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Time Out THE PHILADELPHIA DALY NEWS FEATURES PAGE 54 FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 14. 1992 Welcome to 6 Wayne's World9 These guys live by their words by Gary Thompson Daily News Movie Critic Stars: Dude's not in their vocabulary by Mark de la Vina Daily News Staff Writer EW YORK Wayne and Garth want to set the rec ayne's world is a hurried attempt to 'W; ord straight capitalize on two pop Amid all the "bonuses ular Saturday Night gWBM KM! 33 II M- IllUOW IWIUMBIMIIW "1 r- i 'A I r- -Kr Live" characters. The movie is based on a recurring "SNL" skit featuring two suburban, mall-culture teens who star in a cheerfully low-brow cable-access show, also called "Wayne's World." If you have not seen them, perhaps you are aware of their influence on society. The characters, Wayne and Garth, are most famous for using the word "not" as a sarcastic rejoinder to a ridiculous statement.

For example: The U.S. luge team is awesome. Notl (Incidentally, I will refrain from further use of the word "not." Read on without fear.) A mini-industry has developed in Hollywood around characters who, like Wayne and Garth, were weened on television and "classic rock" the shiftless, irreverent side you See 'WAYNE'S' Next Page and "sphincters" scattered throughout "Wayne's World," the film version of the "Saturday Night Live" skit opening today, not once did the public-access post-pubescents from Aurora, 111., utter the word "dude." "No, the movie's not dude-dependent," said Dana Carvey, 36, who plays Garth Algar, the head-banging sidekick to Mike Myers" Wayne Campbell. "Garth doesn't even say, 'You liked it. I'm not even sure he says "I've never ever said and I've never known anybody who's said said a seemingly sincere, somewhat ill Myers, 28.

But Carvey and Myers, both in the Paramount offices for a battery of interviews, agreed that the movie did capture the dude mentality. Whether you're watching Bill and Ted or Wayne and Garth, that suburban, heavy-metal way of life knows no boundaries. For Myers, who created the characters and co-wrote the screenplay with veteran "SNL" writers Bonnie Turner and Terry Turner, adolescence in Toronto included plenty of real-life Waynes and Garths. "People like them exist," Myers said. "I've been doing the character since I was 12.

I've always talked like that. Then at a certain point, you realize this is not how everybody talks." Much of the "Wayne's World" vernacular might have come from suburban Toronto, but Myers takes full blame for inventing buzz words like "schwing" and "sphincter." The "Wayne's World" skit which debuted weeks before "Bill Ted's Excellent Adventure" hit movie screens in '89, Myers noted was instantly popular. "I would do this in kitchens at parties to make girls laugh," Myers said. "And then during high school, I used to perform Wayne between band sets. A band would come on, do their set, and then I would come on and pretend I was the roadie.

And I'd talk to the audience like they caught me by surprise." Carvey, on the other hand, grew up in the San Francisco Bay area, driving around with long hair in a Volkswagen bus. "I did these characters in the 70s in comedy clubs," Carvey said. "It was an instant laugh. But I think that Mike has successfully made it his own. He's from Toronto and he was truly unaware of how many incarnations there were.

i mm 1 Wayne's World Produced by Lome Michaels, directed by Penelope Spheris, music by J. Peter Robinson, written by Mike Myers, Bonnie Turner and Terry Turner, distributed by Paramount Pictures. Running Tim: 90 minutes Wayne Mike Myers Garth. Dana Carvey Benjamin Rob Lowe Cassandra Tia Carrere Tiny Meat Loaf Parents Guide: (PG-1 3) Showing at: Area theaters Our Movie Rating Guide: Excellent Good Wait for the video Bad Mike Meyers (above left) is Wayne and Dana Carvey is Garth in "Wayne's World," originally a "Saturday Night Live" skit; in the film, they salute Claudia Schiffer (below) as a most excellent babe ty Knocks" was a comedic Spruce Goose. Carvey, known for his Church Lady character and Regis Philbin and George Bush caricatures, plans to leave "SNL." But not until November.

"I want to play George Bush in the election year," Carvey explained. "And with 'Wayne's World' coming out, I didnt want to leap from the show because I thought it was important to keep the continuity of the characters. "I probably will be remembered for what I did on Saturday Night Live' more than anything else. I'm more proud of what I've done there, more than anything. So I want to take care and finish in the right way." "You talk to Dan Aykroyd or Eddie Murphy and they loved those years on the show.

You talk to Chevy Chase and even he says he left too soon. I'll have done over 120 of these shows when I leave." For now or at least this week "Wayne's World" is the center of it all for Carvey and Myers. And with the possibility of Wayne Newton appearing on the show, Wayne nirvana may well be within reach. "I met him when I did a Spy magazine! photograph with him," Myers said. "And I told him, 'I'd love to have you on the And he said, 'I'd love to do it Let's make it It would be great" "When he first talked about it, I thought, 'Stoner dudes.

C'mon. It's been done to But he put his own spin on it." "Wayne's World" is the movie debut for Myers, one of the most popular members of the "SNL" cast A veteran of the Second City comedy troupe in Toronto, whose alumni also include Dan Aykroyd and John Candy, Myers is the son of a British actress and a Canadian encyclopedia salesman. He's acted professionally since he was a child, and he has appeared on television for much of his life. "I got the chance to be in television commercials when I was 7," he said. "Gilda Radner played my mom in a commercial when I was 10 for British Columbia Hydro, the Con Edison of B.C." "I've wanted to do this all my life.

I've wanted to act, write and direct movies since I was 4. 1 used to play with soldiers and Legos and make sets and film it with a Super-8 camera. I once filmed the Battle of Britain." The day he graduated from high school, Myers was hired by Second City. And in his early 20s, he was on "SNL," where he invented such characters as Wayne and Dieter, the pretentious, Euro-trash host of "Sprockets." "Wayne's World' is the second movie for Carvey, whose "Opportuni i i 4 1,1 if -sssgg.