WORLD MODELING AGENCY CLOSING.Byline: BRENT HOPKINS Staff Writer SHERMAN OAKS -- World Modeling Talent Agency, a stalwart Stalwart A description of companies that have large capitalizations and provide investors with slow but steady and dependable growth prospects. Notes: The annual gain that would be viewed as the norm for investing in stalwarts is about 10% to 12%. of the adult-film industry, will close its doors this week, owner Jim South Jim South (born James Marvin. Souter, Jr. in Dallas, Texas) was a recruiter and agent in America’s pornography industry. South sold insurance in Dallas for a few years and moved to Los Angeles in 1968. confirmed Monday. Approaching his 31st year in the business, South said he'd become burned out by the daily grind Daily Grind could refer to:
``I've been working since I was 13 and I'm kind of a workaholic work·a·hol·ic n. One who has a compulsive and unrelenting need to work. , so I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. how long I could be gone,'' he said. South built a reputation as an honest agent willing to give young actors their start in an often murky industry. Working with his son, Jim Jr., he managed more than 150 clients and served as an entry point to a business that operates largely out of the mainstream. Tom Hymes, publisher of the industry trade magazine XBiz, which first broke the news of the closure, said World Modeling had an unparalleled business reputation. As a journalist with a long tenure covering the industry, he said that though he discouraged would-be performers from going into adult entertainment, he referred them to World Modeling if they insisted. ``Their reputation precedes them,'' Hymes said. ``In this business, if you're not taking care of people, there's so many ways for the word to get out. They actually cared to take care of people in an industry where there's a lot of risk.'' Though many of the performers on South's talent list have representation by multiple agencies, Chelsea Zinn, a Northridge-based actress, said he'd be missed. She described him as a visionary who'd never let greed corrupt his business practices and called him a rare, trustworthy operator. ``There's a lot of bottom feeders bottom feeder - slopsucker in this business, but I never felt that way about Jim,'' Zinn said. ``He'd send me on things where I felt like I was too old, but he'd always say, `C'mon, baby, you can act.' If you treated him right, he'd do right by you. They really broke the mold mold, name for certain multicellular organisms of the various classes of the kingdom Fungi, characteristically having bodies composed of a cottony mycelium. The colors of molds are caused by the spores, which are borne on the mycelium. when they made Jim.'' brent.hopkins@dailynews.com (818) 713-3738 |
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