People: Mar. 31, 1997

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When they were young lads growing up in Toronto, MIKE MYERS and his brother were sent Beatles suits by an aunt in Liverpool, whence his parents had emigrated. Thus, perhaps, was Myers' deep-seated anglophilia born. His newest creation, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, is clearly from a place far, far away from Wayne's World. He's a swinging '60s English fashion photographer by day and secret agent by night, who has himself frozen, as does his nemesis, Dr. Evil, also played by Myers. When Evil returns in 1997, so must Powers, along with his 1967 sexual mores and...

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