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In 1961, LIFE’s Eleanor Graves profiled a man named John Harkrider, the founder, owner, talent scout and booking agent of the Harkrider male model agency. That such a profession even existed might ...

The story of Justin Hopwood is necessarily the story of Justin Hopwood’s hair. It opens with a bowl cut in Hopwood’s early years. Then his hair is irrelevant for a few prepubescent chapters. He begins ...

The casting director, a Dutch man in his 50s with a large paunch, looked at me, his eyes darting around my body. "Take off your top and show me your torso," he said. I was exhausted after 14 hours of ...

“No one has more respect for the artistic value of a pretty girl than I, but in this girl-made era we are forgetting the fact that artistically and historically, the male of the species is of some ...

Model Man is a pair of brothers, Mark and Rob Brandon, who make nostalgic dance music. Their new single, "Alone," is premiering above alongside a video capturing an emotional ride for a young dance ...