MIKE MYERS' SECRET OBSESSION: TOY SOLDIERS

MIKE MYERS' SECRET OBSESSION: TOY SOLDIERS

NEW YORK (Wireless Flash) -- "Austin Powers" star Mike Myers has a secret addiction: he's obsessed with toy soldiers. Myers tells the upcoming "Rolling Stone" that he spends hours painting model toy soldiers while watching war re- enactments on the History Channel. Although he admits his toy soldier obsession is somewhat "scary," Myers insists he doesn't play with the soldiers after he paints them: he gives them to a friend who has kids. Other odds and ends about the man who would be Austin... -- Even though he plays a sex-obsessed secret agent in the "Austin" flicks, Myers hates to be touched in real life. -- His older brothers would torture him as a kid by farting in his face. Other times they would strip Myers and throw him out of the house. -- And, finally, instead of having his real name stenciled on a director's chair while making the latest "Austin Powers" flick, Myers requested that the chair read: "Sir Stinky Bottom."

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