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Mark MacKillop is a singer actor dancer currently residing in New York City. Born and raised in Vancouver, he grew up performing in musical theatre. After high school he was hired to dance with the Atlanta Ballet, the oldest continually running ballet company in North America. After only six months, Mark performed his first principle role as Paris in Romeo and Juliet. While in Atlanta, he performed the roles of the Prince in Cinderella, the Prince in Snow White, Don Quixote in Don Quixote, Von Rothbart in Swan Lake and was one of three Canadians in the National Ballet of Canada’s “Four Season’s” when it was debuted in the US Premiere on the Atlanta Ballet. In the summer of 2010, Mark was invited to perform the role of Espada, the lead matador, as a guest principle artist in Japan in Don Quixote. He recently spent a year touring all over Europe playing Riff in the international production of West Side Story.

Brian Idol (whose real name was Brian Arthur Hengel) was born August 31, 1949, in Minneapolis, Minnesota of German / Scandanavian stock. He grew up in northern Idaho, however, where he did mill & farm work during summer vacations from high school. In 1966, right after graduation, he headed for Los Angeles, barely arriving at the downtown bus station (the gay equivalent to Schwabb's drugstore) when he was "discovered" by an alert model scout, Darby Summers. Taken immediately to the studio of Bob Carr (whose brief career in physique photography is poorly documented today), Brian agreed to pose, though he later told Bob Mizer that he had thought the physique pix & films Carr showed him were "disgusting." Even so, after being launched on a beefcake career by Carr (who gave him his now-famous nom de pouch), Brian went on to pose for many other studios: besides Carr and Mizer, Bruce and Milo did a considerable amount of work with him. As we see, most of these photos were nudes, and he did films (in & out of the pouch) both for AMG and Bruce--his 'at home' color film for the latter being particularly successful. He stood 5' 11" and even though he looked heftier, usually weighed only 165-170 lbs. Judging from his AMG-symbols chart, he must have commanded nice fees as a hustler, and he eventually got himself into trouble with drugs. By 1968 or so, he escaped total perdition by heading back to Minneapolis, where he worked in electrical engineering. The following year, Bob Mizer reported that Brian had licked the drug problem & was eager to get back to LA, but subsequent mentions of him (in 1973 & 1974) don't make it clear if he ever made it. In any case, the photographic work already done on him had already established him as the 'idol' of many all over the world, truly one of the most popular models of his generation.

PG December 1977 Portfolio 11

PG Special Edition Summer / Fall 1992 "How To Meet Men" "Most Treasured Chests"

PG September 1993 Pictorial "Desert Flower" Photography: Maxine Elliot Marten

PG October 1996 Man of the Month "Accent on Love" Photography: Greg Weiner

PG June 1980 "Our Favorite Men"

PG January / February 35th Anniversary Reunion