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A PICTURE in your mind of John Hall picking daffodils in the fields doesnt seem to jive with anything youve heard or seen or even fantasized about John Hall, the new image model of Bench underwear. But thats the vision of John in his youth that his mother has kept in her heart through the years. "He was a very sweet child," Fortune Hall affectionately recalls. ...
It may seem kind of disconcerting to some people talking to a mother about her son who gets low down, literally, to his shorts but John Hall is a man of few words - maybe hes still reticent, being quite new to the invasive media - while Fortune Hall is so proud of her son, she could keep on going about him. "He was very good with the household chores," she even says (you could almost see John squirming), "and when he was finished with that, only then would he drift off to sleep. ... John Hall is from Cebu and he works in his mothers furniture factory. ...
Nonetheless, hes coming into focus now that Bench has chosen John Hall for its image model for its underwear line, joining the durable Jomari Yllana. It promises to be a double-barrel "undercover" attack: one coming from the boyish, dreamily romantic Jomari, and another from the aggressive, come-and-get-it sensuality of John Hall. ...
John Hall is one of the three new Bench image models handpicked at the start of this year by Mr. ... The other two are Robby Mananquil, a twentysomething visual artist, musician, model and aspiring actor; and John Prats, the teenaged TV darling who is dancing his way into the hearts of his screaming young fans. Robby Mananquil and John Prats will typify yuppies and teeny-boppers, respectively for Bench.
John Hall is as foreign as one can be and as Filipino as one could get.
Approximate Word count = 1547
Approximate Pages = 6.2
(250 words per page double spaced)
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