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MOVIES By Mike Duffy DETROIT FREE PflESS 2 decided at age 4 he'd like to become a movie director. "And I wanted to be on Saturday Night Live since I was 11." The day he graduated from high school, he auditioned for and was hired by the legendary Second City comedy troupe in Toronto. Several years before joining SNL in 1989, he was improvising Wayne routines on late-night Canadian radio and television. But it wasn't until the "Wayne's World" skits debuted in all their babe-a-lonian rock 'n' roll glory on Saturday Night Live three years ago Continued, Page 18 Led Zeppelin and Aerosmith. "I was a huge Led Zep fan," the 28-year old actor said in the course of promoting Wayne's World, the movie that opens today and co-stars Dana Carvey as Wayne's bent sidekick, Garth.

When Myers was in high school, he began transforming this heavy-metal alter ego into a babe-rating, jargon-spouting character named Wayne. "I did him in kitchens at parties to make girls laugh," Myers said. Myers grew up in "an upper working-class family" in Scarborough real flat with a lot of doughnut dreaming of someday being cleverly absurd for fun and profit He 'Saturday Night Live' comedian Mike Myers says he didn't just dream up 'Wayne's he lived it as a teen-ager in Canada. CHICAGO Just so you know: Wayne Campbell didn't just materialize out of the comedy inspiration ozone on Saturday Night Live where he first showed up in 1989. He and Mike Myers go way back like, all the way back to Myers' own school days in Scarborough, Ontario, outside Toronto.

"I used to be like Wayne," Myers said. "I talked like that. I was a suburban heavy-metal youth." Myers also shared Wayne Campbell's fixation on the lords of the sonic boom: Mike Myers as Wayne. dlond By Jay Boyar I1 rM' 1 Tl i lljj ij ALJ I i 4 SENTINEL MOVIE CRITIC chwing! The sound you have just heard is an exuberant expression of arousal, as voiced by Wayne Campbell, the teen-age host of a free-form late-night cable-access show in the Chicago suburb of Aurora, HI. On Wayne's World, the fictional TV program, and in Wayne's World, the funny new movie REVIEW about that program, Wayne talks in a hilarious version of teenspeak that seems partly drawn from actual adolescent conversation and partly from Wayne's fertile, febrile imagination.

In addition to our hero's personal lexicon includes As if. (his ejaculation of incredulity), Denied! (his summary statement of rejection), (his 'Wayne's World' Cast: Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, Rob Lowe, fia Carrere Director Penelope Spheeris Screenwriters: Mike Myers, Bonnie Turner, Terry Turner Cinematographer: Theo Van de Sande Music: J. Peter Robinson Running time: 1 hour, 35 minutes Industry rating: PG-13 (parents strongly cautioned) Parents' guide: Language, adult themes Reviewing key. excellent, good, average, poor, awful 1 I ft I TP -v tt k- if; 4 3 JQ highest encomium), What a babe! (see: Party on! (you figure it out) and any number of terms for vomit. If Wayne isn't certain he has heard you correctly, he'll ask, "Ex-squeeze me? Baking powder?" which, of course, translates as, "Excuse me? Beg your pardon?" And if he tricks you into Mike Myers and Dana Carvey in World.

Tia Carrere (inset) is Wayne's babe-a-lonian love interest- Continued, Page 18.