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fun facts from wikipedia...
Notable moustaches[edit]
The longest moustache measures 4.29 m (14 ft) and belongs to Ram Singh Chauhan (India). It was measured on the set of Lo Show dei Record in Rome, Italy, on 4 March 2010.[12]
In some cases, the moustaches are so prominently identified with a single individual that it could be identified with him without any further identifying traits, such as in the cases of Adolf Hitler[quantify] or Joseph Stalin. In other cases, such as Groucho Marx and Charlie Chaplin, the moustache in question was artificial for most of their lives. Kaiser Wilhelm II's moustache, grossly exaggerated, featured prominently in Triple Entente propaganda.
In India, the Rajasthani Rajput community is famous for the Rajput Moustache[13] It is a symbol of dignity and caste status, and the lion-like fighter spirit of Rajput soldiers.[14]Rajputana Moustache is famous world wide.[15] in the Indian Army, most senior rifle Rajputana regiment soldiers have moustaches.[16][17]
Among professionals[edit]
Moustaches are noted among U.S. Army armor and cavalry soldiers.[18]
In art and fiction[edit]
Moustaches have long been used by artists to make characters distinctive as with Charlie Chan, Snidely Whiplash, Hercule Poirot, or the video game character Mario. They have also been used to make a social or political point as with Marcel Duchamp's “L.H.O.O.Q.,” a parody of the Mona Lisa which adds a goatee and moustache, or the moustachioed self-portraits of Frida Kahlo. At least one fictional moustache has been so notable that a whole style has been named after it: the Fu Manchu moustache.
Salvador Dalí published a book dedicated solely to his moustache.[19]
Moustache was the alias name of a French comic actor.[20]
In sport[edit]
The Liverpool sides of the late 1970s to late 1980s were famously notable for numbers of moustachioed players, including Alan Kennedy, Mark Lawrenson, Graeme Souness, Bruce Grobbelaar, Terry McDermott, Ian Rush and David McGurrin.
Formula 1 champion Nigel Mansell groomed a moustache throughout his career in the 1980s and 90s. Mansell got rid of the moustache after retiring.
For the 2008 Summer Olympics Croatia men's national water polo team grew moustaches in honor of coach Ratko Rudić.
In the early 1970s, Major League Baseball players seldom wore facial hair. As detailed in the book Mustache Gang, Oakland Athletics owner Charlie Finley decided to hold a moustache-growing contest within his team. When the A's faced the Cincinnati Reds, whose team rules forbade facial hair,[citation needed] in the 1972 World Series, the series was dubbed by media as "the hairs vs. the squares".
Swimmer Mark Spitz won seven gold medals while sporting a moustache when swimmers usually shaved all their body hair to decrease drag. When other competitors questioned the moustache and the potential increased drag, he claimed that it helped create a pocket of air to breathe.[citation needed] Coincidently, the number of swimmers with moustaches rapidly rose following the 1972 Olympic Games.
South African rugby union coach Peter De Villiers has a moustache, and is derisively known as Piet Snor (Peter Moustache). In 2008 De Villiers was nicknamed "Twakkie" in a public competition held by the South African Sunday Times newspaper – in reference to a local fictional character with a similar moustache from the SABC's "The Most Amazing Show".[citation needed]
NHL player George Parros is well known for his moustache, of which fans can buy replicas of at the team store, with proceeds going to charity. Parros also has a line of apparel called "Stache Gear" that benefits The Garth Brooks Teammates For Kids Foundation.
During the 2012 London Olympic Games Chileans supporters painted moustaches on their skin as a sign of support of gymnast Tomás González.[21] A site called bigoteolimipico.com (olympicmoustache) was created to allow people create Twitter avatars and Facebook images with moustaches in support of Tomás González.[22][23]
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Firefighter
 A U.S. Navy firefighter douses a fire during atraining drill in July 2008. He is equipped with afire hose with fog nozzle, breathing apparatus,helmet and full structural firefighting kit. | |
| Occupation | |
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Activity sectors | Rescue, fire protection, civil service,public service, public safety |
A firefighter (also known as a fireman) is a rescuer extensively trained in firefighting, primarily to extinguish hazardous fires that threaten property and civilian or natural populations, and to rescue people from dangerous situations, like collapsed or burning buildings or crashed vehicles.
Backdraft (film)
| Backdraft | |
|---|---|
 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Ron Howard |
| Produced by | Richard B. Lewis John Watson Pen Densham |
| Written by | Gregory Widen |
| Starring | Kurt Russell William Baldwin Scott Glenn Jennifer Jason Leigh Rebecca De Mornay Donald Sutherland Robert De Niro |
| Music by | Hans Zimmer |
| Cinematography | Mikael Salomon |
| Edited by | Daniel P. Hanley Mike Hill |
Production company | Imagine Films Entertainment Trilogy Entertainment Group |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
Release dates |
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Running time | 132 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $75 million[1] |
| Box office | $152,368,585 |
Backdraft is a 1991 action thriller film directed by Ron Howard and written by Gregory Widen. The film stars Kurt Russell, William Baldwin, Scott Glenn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Rebecca De Mornay, Donald Sutherland, andRobert De Niro. Jason Gedrick and J. T. Walsh co-star. The story is about firefighters in Chicago on the trail of a serial arsonist who sets fires with a fictional chemical substance, trychtichlorate.
The film grossed $77,868,585 domestically and $74,500,000 in foreign markets, for a total gross of $152,368,585, making it the highest grossing film ever made about firefighters.[2][3] The film received three Academy Award nominations.
The film's theme, "Show Me Your Firetruck", by Hans Zimmer is also used as the theme for the U.S. broadcast of the hit Japanese cooking show Iron Chef.[4]
Rescue Me (U.S. TV series)
| Rescue Me | |
|---|---|
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| Created by | Denis Leary Peter Tolan |
| Starring | Denis Leary John Scurti Daniel Sunjata Mike Lombardi Steven Pasquale Andrea Roth Callie Thorne Adam Ferrara Larenz Tate James McCaffrey Dean Winters |
| Opening theme | "C'mon C'mon" by The Von Bondies |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Originallanguage(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 7 |
| No. of episodes | 93 (List of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Running time | 43 minutes |
| Productioncompany(s) | The Cloudland Company Apostle DreamWorks Television Sony Pictures Television |
| Distributor | FX Productions Sony Pictures Television |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | FX |
| Picture format | 480i (SDTV) (NTSC) 576i (SDTV) (PAL) 720p (HDTV) |
| Original run | July 21, 2004 – September 7, 2011 |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Rescue Me is an American comedy-drama television series that premiered on the FX Network on July 21, 2004 and concluded on September 7, 2011. The series focuses on the professional and personal lives of a group of New York City firefighters, post 9/11.
The protagonist and focal point of the series is veteran New York City Firefighter Tommy Gavin (Denis Leary). The series follows Tommy's troubled family and co-workers as they deal with real life issues, either with post9/11 trauma or their own domestic problems. Tommy struggles with the loss of his cousin and best friend, Firefighter Jimmy Keefe (James McCaffrey), as well as fifty-nine other firefighters whom he knew, who died in theWorld Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Jimmy frequently visits Tommy in ghostly visions. Tommy is an ill-tempered, self-destructive, hypocritical, manipulative, relapsed alcoholic who suffers with severe survivor guiltand posttraumatic stress disorder as a result of 9/11. In the pilot episode, Tommy and his wife Janet (Andrea Roth) have already separated, although they are technically still married, and Tommy has moved across the street. Although he has a poor grasp on his personal life, most of Tommy's actions as a firefighter are heroic and/or well-intentioned, but despite his devotion and care for others (and for the job), he is viewed by his various family members and his fellow firefighters as self-centered.
Rescue Me was created by Denis Leary and Peter Tolan, who also serve as executive producers and head writers, and is produced by Cloudland Company, Apostle, DreamWorks Television, and Sony Pictures Television.
Cast and characters[edit]
Rescue Me mainly focuses on the family of Tommy Gavin and the men of Tommy's firehouse, but many other characters were introduced over the seven seasons that stayed on as regular characters. Recurring guests included Maura Tierney, Artie Lange, Susan Sarandon, Desmond Harrington, Marisa Tomei, Gina Gershon, Peter Gallagher, Michael J. Fox, Cam Neely, Lyndon Byers, Phil Esposito, and Jennifer Esposito.
Main cast[edit]
| Actor | Character | Role | ||||||||||||
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| Denis Leary | Thomas Michael "Tommy" Gavin | FDNY Firefighter, 1st Grade, Ladder Co. 62 (Senior Man) | Main | |||||||||||
| John Scurti | Kenneth "Lou" Shea | FDNY Lieutenant, Ladder Co. 62 (Deceased, Season 7) | Main | |||||||||||
| Daniel Sunjata | Franco Rivera | FDNY Firefighter, 1st Grade (later Lieutenant), Ladder Co. 62 | Main | |||||||||||
| Steven Pasquale | Sean Leslie Garrity | FDNY Firefighter/EMT, 1st Grade, Ladder Co. 62 | Main | |||||||||||
| Mike Lombardi | Mike Silletti | FDNY Probationary Firefighter (later Firefighter, 1st Grade), Ladder Co. 62 | Main | |||||||||||
| Andrea Roth | Janet Gavin | Tommy Gavin's wife | Main | |||||||||||
| Callie Thorne | Sheila Keefe | Jimmy Keefe's widow, Tommy Gavin's lover | Main | |||||||||||
| Natalie Distler | Colleen Gavin Johnston | Tommy Gavin's daughter, Bart "Black Sean" Johnston's wife | Main | |||||||||||
| James McCaffrey | James Xavier "Jimmy" Keefe | FDNY Firefighter/EMT, 1st Grade, Ladder Co. 62 (Senior Man), Tommy Gavin's cousin (Deceased, 9/11) | Main | |||||||||||
| Robert John Burke | Mickey "Mick" Gavin | Former Roman Catholic priest, Tommy Gavin's cousin | Main | |||||||||||
| Lenny Clarke | Theodore "Teddy" Gavin | Retired FDNY Firefighter, Vietnam War veteran, Tommy Gavin's uncle | Main | |||||||||||
| Adam Ferrara | William "Needles" Nelson | FDNY Battalion Chief, 30th Battalion | Recurring | Main | ||||||||||
| Larenz Tate | Bart "Black Sean" Johnston | FDNY Probationary Firefighter (later Firefighter, 1st Grade), Ladder Co. 62 | Recurring | Main | ||||||||||
| Jack McGee | Jerry Reilly | FDNY Battalion Chief, 15th Battalion (Deceased, Season 4) | Main | |||||||||||
Major recurring cast[edit]
| Actor | Character Name | Character Role |
|---|---|---|
| Michael Zegen | Damien Keefe | FDNY Probationary Firefighter, Ladder Co. 62 (recurring Season 1-5, main cast Season 6) (Injured and Paralyzed) |
| Tatum O'Neal | Peggy Sue "Maggie" Gavin Garrity | Sister of Tommy Gavin, Ex-Wife of Sean Garrity (recurring Season 2, main cast Season 3–4, recurring Season 5-7) |
| Olivia Crocicchia | Katy Marie Gavin | Daughter of Tommy Gavin |
| Dean Winters | Johnny Gavin | NYPD Detective, Tommy Gavin's Brother (recurring Season 1–2, main cast Season 3, recurring Season 4–5,7) (Deceased) |
| Jerry Adler | Sidney Feinberg | FDNY 75th Battalion Chief (later Deputy Division Chief) (recurring Season 4-7) |
| Charles Durning | Michael Gavin | Tommy Gavin's Father, retired FDNY Firefighter (recurring Season 1-4) |
| Niels Jorgensen | Niels Jorgensen | FDNY Firefighter, 1st Grade, Ladder Co. 62 (Ladder Company Chauffeur-LCC) (recurring Season 1-7) |
| Trevor Heins | Connor Gavin | Tommy Gavin's Son (Deceased) (recurring Season 1-2) |
| Diane Farr | Laura Miles | FDNY Firefighter, 1st Grade, Ladder Co. 62 (recurring Season 1, main cast Season 2) (Transferred) |
| Milena Govich | Barbara "Danielle"/"Candy" Callahan | Lou Shea's Ex-Wife, a former Prostitute and Porn star |
| Terry Serpico | Eddie Gavin | Tommy Gavin's Cousin, a Lawyer with the District Attorney's Office |
| Michael Mulheren | Ron Perolli | FDNY 15th Battalion Chief, Battalion Commander |
| Patti D'Arbanville | Ellie Gavin | Teddy Gavin's Wife (Deceased) |
| Maura Tierney | Kelly McPhee | Tommy Gavin's Girlfriend (recurring Season 5-7) |
| Ed Sullivan | Billy Warren | FDNY Firefighter, 1st Grade Ladder Co. 62 (recurring Season 1) (Deceased) |