Michael Phillips: Burt Bacharach wrote the songs the world needed then. And now

It’s the one sincere moment in the entire “Austin Powers” franchise.

Straight to camera, the international man of mystery announces: “Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Burt Bacharach!” Mike Myers and Elizabeth Hurley, atop a double-decker London-meets-Vegas tour bus heading down the Strip, dance to the strains of “What the World Needs Now is Love,” one of so many Bacharach/Hal David hits, with Bacharach at the piano obliging the audience with the first of three cameos in the Powers