they featured gandy wearing the barest of bathing suits.hose tiny white trunks. the ad brought him icon status in the modeling world. >> i have a personally love of that picture. it changed my life. it changed the industry. and that's not an easy thing to do. >> today, gangy can pick and choose his assignments. he's dabbled in film. and created style and fitness apps, carefully managing his image, his bread, as he calls it. you want to have power? like a brando kind of -- we caught up with gandy at a cover shoot in new york city. for vogue hombre's latest issue. >> are you talking about the hair? it should look slicker, is that what you said? you feel it's too puffy? >> at this stage his career, he knows what works and what doesn't and has the power and clout to call the shots. he disappears to have his hair redone. >> reporter: we had a hair issue? >> not an issue. i know how i like my hair. >> you have a brand and that you are in control of it. and that's a big part of making sure that your career goes in the direction you want to. >> tha

. >> he's supermodel david gandy. apparently he's everywhere. amy robach. >> reporter: his face and body are everywhere. he works the runway, just as well as those rugged, lucky jeans. and he's eye-catching in the dolce & gabanna campaigns. you may not know his name. but you can't miss that face. and, well, everything else. david gandy is arguably the most successful male supermodel ever. with his masculine physique, it was difficult for gandy at first. he was doing shoots at a time when male models were supposed to be thin, almost feminine. >>> i bucked the trends. everyone was saying, you need to be skinny. i said i'm not a skinny guy. >> reporter: but that manly physique is what set him apart. and in 2006, dolce and gabana took a chance. they featured gandy. wearing the barest of bathing suits for their light blue men's fragrance. millions of people saw david gandy in those tiny, white trunks. the ad brought him icon status in the modeling world. >> i have a personal love of that picture. it changed my life. but people say it changed the indu

they won't say malcolm x did this and gandi did this. i'm urging is for people to focus on the heroic, we've been stripped of our gods in this secular society with our dessert religions remaining and without any gods, as it been said man won't we leave believe in that -- >> what did you love being, a tv star, movie star, music star? >> it's nice to do a movie with jonah hill and cool people. tv is good because of it's rapid and fast turnover but stand up comma did is my heart. if you say something dumb, i may not know when i say something stupid. i may have said something over the course of the interview, some people go oh, and you can say i didn't mean it like that. i like that directness. it's important to have direct communication because our media is very, very manipulative and designates information in an interesting way and we're part of it, so we know who it works and whose agenda it's serving and not the people it's purporting to be serving. we know this already. >> what is the path to happiness for russell brand do you think? >>

monti gandy, the angry black lady just for balance.. ç] [ ♪ theme ♪ ] >> hal: so here we are. hour two of the big day. i mean right now if we're -- i mean the paperwork should be hitting, you know, the desks right now for the prop 8 and doma rulings from the supreme court. people will be tearing through them. i'm sure we'll see immediate headlines but until then, we'll have legitimate news from the lovely and talented jacki schechner. >> thanks. i would advise that based on the affordable care act decision that we wait until people actually read these decisions before they come out and say what they are because everybody is so quick to get it on the air first that they don't even bother to take a look and read through what it actually says. while we wait, we do now have a new democratic senator in massachusetts. representative ed markey. the republican gabrying gomez to replace john kerry in the senate. turnout was low. markey beat gomez which 10 points. he serves out the rest of kerry's term and faces re-election in 2014. >>> presiden

interesting paralegals and they led movements that transformed the site and they were transformed by gandind recognized that nonviolence was important to achieve the goechlt many wanted to wage a violent assault against apartheid government. ngandi and martin luther king and my uncle shaped the philosophy deputy nelson mandela had an opportunity to read many philosophies and studied many view points and certainly dr. martin luther king junior being one of those. we know that martin luther king junior's foundation was in jesus christ and we know that shaped him and able to help him to lead a nonviolent movement, but it is just so interesting that all of those parallels come together in the years and the fight for freedom and liberty, it is just a sensitive battle and i actually had an opportunity to go to south africa and to hear how the people have been so encouraged by their hero. and he has become an icon and a world hero. and i believe that we should remember him always in that maerp. and even now at 94 years old and struggling and fighting for his life, you can see that strength and th

thank you, kim gandy. please come back again. gene robinson, as always. as we continue our unkindest cut series, tell us how you've been affected by congress' across the board automatic spending cuts. tweet us at #unkindestcut and join the conversation on our facebook page at facebook.com/hardball. our website, tv.msnbc.com and click on "hardball." and we'll be right back. >>> let me finish tonight with this. nelson mandela is in critical condition tonight. perhaps the world's greatest hero, he built a historic legacy while still in prison. he refused to leave robben island until white ruled south africa legalized the congress. when it did, we knew the world was changing down there, that getting majority rule was just a matter of time. i was there when the first election was held when mandela was elected president of south africa. it was a glorious day of people waiting in line for hours so they could be part of the great change coming over that country. a change nelson mandela made possible. we all thought it might take a horrible bloodshed to change sou

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but, you know, i'm a fan of real leaders like martin luther king and gandy and mandela and those folks about steps up and in and not waiting around for things to change. it's interesting. every time i read on msnbc the scroll, it doesn't talk about ex president mandela. it talks about leader nelson mandela. we remember him for his moral authority, for stepping up and stepping in. guys like me, you know this, because you interview them, come and go, folks in elected office, formal authority, a dialectic by people on the outside constantly pushing us to do the right thing. and you've got to take that leap of faith. you've got to lean into that and step up and step in. i'm proud to have been a small part of that. what we're really celebrating are the extraordinary people, harvey milk's legacy, phyllis lion and del martin, at this day in and day out, exercising their moral authority to make the world a better place, a softer place where all of us can live our lives out loud. >> quickly, the statement we got from the white house. we did have the president on the iphone earlier in the hour,

who clearly links the struggles in africa with civil rights is abundantly clear, while he embraced gandy, informed by the civil rights movement in the u.s. one of the first pauses for us here in a post civil rights movement world were the campaigns against apartheid in africa. >> my first act in the anti-apartheid movement in 1970 and 80 because i was inspired in what was going on in africa. >> our involvement in africa gave americans beneficiaries of our parents' battles for civil rights here the chance to support our brothers and sisters there. it was our chance to support their continued struggle that culminated in what was once thought to be impossible, the next of nelson mandela. as our first black president tours africa, the well-being and possible loss of mandela is on everyone's mind. even president obama's. >> i think he's a hero for the world. if and when he passes from this place, one thing i think we'll all know is that his legacy is one that will linger on throughout the ages. >> as we witness the supreme court-imposed sunset of key civil rights achievements here in the u.s.