911 is a year.

911 may also refer to:

911 (number)

911 BC, a year before the common era

9-1-1, emergency telephone number in most of North America

Porsche 911, a series of cars of the automobile marque

September 11 attacks (9/11), the 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States

911 Agamemnon, an asteroid

BOAC Flight 911, a British Overseas Airways flight that crashed in 1966

Media and entertainment

911 (wrestler)

911 (band)

"911" (Wyclef Jean song)

"911" (King Giddra song)

''9.11'' (album), by Bumblefoot

"911" (''Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'')

''9/11'' (film), a documentary

''9-11'', a book by Noam Chomsky

"911", a song by Cyndi Lauper on the album ''True Colors''

"911", a song by Gorillaz, D12 & Terry Hall on the ''Bad Company'' soundtrack

See also

September 11, in month-day date notation

9 November, in day-month date notation

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''The Falling Man'' is a photograph taken by Associated Press photographer Richard Drew, of a man falling from the North Tower of the World Trade Center at 9:41:15 a.m. during the September 11 attacks in New York City. The subject of the image—whose identity remains uncertain but is speculated as being that of Jonathan Briley, who worked in a top-floor restaurant—was one of the people trapped on the upper floors of the skyscraper who apparently either fell as they searched for safety or jumped to escape the fire and smoke. At least 200 people fell or jumped to their deaths that day; there was no time to recover or identify those who were forced out of the buildings prior to the collapse of the towers. Officially, all deaths in the attacks except those of the hijackers were ruled to be homicides due to blunt trauma (as opposed to suicides), and the New York City medical examiner's office stated that it does not classify the people who fell to their deaths on September 11 as "jumpers": "A 'jumper' is somebody who goes to the office in the morning knowing that they will commit suicide... These people were forced out by the smoke and flames or blown out."

The photograph, shown on the right gives the impression that the man is falling straight down. However, this is one in a series of photographs of his fall, and viewed with the others it is evident that he is tumbling through the air.

The photographer has noted that, in at least two cases, newspaper stories commenting on the image have attracted a barrage of criticism from readers who found the image "disturbing." Regarding the social and cultural significance of ''The Falling Man'', theologian Mark D. Thompson of Moore Theological College says that "perhaps the most powerful image of despair at the beginning of the twenty-first century is not found in art, or literature, or even popular music. It is found in a single photograph."

Publication history

The photograph initially appeared in newspapers around the world, including on page 7 of ''The New York Times'' on September 12, 2001. It appeared only once in the ''Times'' because of criticism and anger against its use. Six years later, it appeared on page 1 of the ''New York Times Book Review'' on May 27, 2007.

"The Falling Man" is also the title of an article about the photograph by Tom Junod that appeared in the September 2003 issue of ''Esquire'' magazine and was later made into a documentary film. The article and film reveal who "The Falling Man" actually may have been: Jonathan Briley. Briley worked on the top floor of the north tower of the World Trade Center. It was there, in the restaurant, that he either fell accidentally while searching for fresh air and safety or decided to jump. He was an asthmatic and would have known he was in danger when smoke began to pour into the restaurant.

Identification

The identity of The Falling Man has never been ''officially'' confirmed. Because many people were trapped in the tower identifying certainly the man in the 12 photos has not been practical. It is thought that at least 200 people fell to their deaths, though the actual number is not certain.

Initially the faller was identified by ''The Globe and Mail'' reporter Peter Cheney as Norberto Hernandez, but when the family looked at the whole series of pictures, it was clear that it was not Hernandez. Three other families claimed that he was their relative, but after careful analysis of the photo this was disproven.

Finally, The Falling Man was identified by chef Michael Lomonaco as Jonathan Briley, a 43-year-old employee of the Windows on the World restaurant. Briley was a sound engineer who lived in Mount Vernon, New York and worked in the North Tower restaurant. The victim was initially identified by his brother, Timothy. Lomonaco claims that he was able to identify Briley by his clothes and body-type. In one of the pictures, The Falling Man's clothes were blown away, revealing an orange undershirt similar to the shirt that Briley wore to work almost every day. His older sister, Gwendolyn, asserted he was wearing that shirt on the day of the attack. She told reporters of ''The Sunday Mirror'', "When I first looked at the picture...and I saw it was a man - tall, slim - I said, 'If I didn't know any better, that could be Jonathan.'" A charity has been set up for Briley's family, and many news programs have aired his story as being the one of The Falling Man. Another of Briley's brothers, Alex, was an original member of the 1970s disco group Village People.

Documentary film

''9/11: The Falling Man'' is a 2006 documentary film about the picture and the story behind it. It was made by American filmmaker Henry Singer and filmed by Richard Numeroff, a New York-based director of photography. The film is loosely based on Junod's ''Esquire'' story. It also drew its material from photographer Lyle Owerko's pictures of falling people. It debuted on March 16, 2006, on the British television network Channel 4. It later made its North American premiere on Canada's CBC Newsworld on September 6, 2006, and has been broadcast in over 30 countries. The U.S. premiere was September 10, 2007, on the Discovery Times Channel.

Use in literature

The picture plays an important part in the book ''Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close'' by Jonathan Safran Foer. The last 15 pages of his text comprise a flip-book collection of images of a similar man shot by photographer Lyle Owerko falling upwards toward the top of the World Trade Center. Although he is not the first to make the claim, Foer demonstrates how the falling man is used as a symbol for grieving families much like the "Tomb of the Unknown Soldier."

''Falling Man,'' a novel by Don DeLillo, is about the events of 9/11. The Falling Man in the novel is a performance artist recreating the events of the photograph. DeLillo says he was unfamiliar with the title of the picture when he named his book. The artist straps himself into a harness and jumps from an elevated structure in a high visibility area (such as a highway overpass), hanging in the pose of the falling man.

It also features in the poem 'Out of the Blue' by Simon Armitage. The poem is written from the falling man's point of view as he falls.

Notes

References

''9/11: The Falling Man'' (March 16, 2006). Channel 4.

Further reading

External links

NPR interview with Esquire magazine writer Tom Junod, August 21, 2003

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Mark Robert Michael Wahlberg (born June 5, 1971) is an American actor, film and television producer, and former musician. He was known as Marky Mark in his earlier years, and became famous for his 1991 debut as a musician with the band Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch. He was named No. 1 on VH1's ''40 Hottest Hotties of the 90's''. Wahlberg is well known for his roles in films such as ''Boogie Nights'' (1997), ''Three Kings'' (1999), ''The Perfect Storm'' (2000), ''Planet of the Apes'' (2001), ''The Italian Job'' (2003), ''I Heart Huckabees'' (2004), ''Four Brothers'' (2005), ''The Departed'' (2006), ''Invincible'' (2006), ''Shooter'' (2007), and ''The Fighter'' (2010). He has also served as the executive producer of the TV series ''Entourage'', ''Boardwalk Empire'' and ''How to Make It in America''.

Early life

Wahlberg was born in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, the youngest of nine children, with siblings Arthur, Jim, Paul, Robert, Tracey, Michelle, Debbie (died in 2003 at age 44), and Donnie. His father was of half Swedish and half Irish ancestry, and his mother is of Irish, English, and French Canadian descent. Maternally, Wahlberg is distantly related to author Nathaniel Hawthorne. Wahlberg's mother, Alma Elaine ( Donnelly), was a bank clerk and nurse's aide, and Wahlberg's father, Donald Edward Wahlberg, was a Teamster who worked as a delivery driver. His parents divorced in 1982. Wahlberg had a Roman Catholic upbringing and attended Copley Square High School (but never graduated) on Newbury Street in Boston.

Assaults and conviction

Wahlberg claims to have been in trouble 20–25 times with the Boston Police Department as a youth. By the age of 13, Wahlberg had developed an addiction to cocaine and other substances. At 15, he harassed a group of black school children on a field trip by throwing rocks and shouting racial epithets. When he was 16, while high on PCP, Wahlberg approached a middle-aged Vietnamese man on the street and, using a large wooden stick, knocked him unconscious (while calling him "Vietnam fucking shit"). He also attacked another Vietnamese man, leaving him permanently blind in one eye, and attacked a security guard (using racist language).

For these crimes, Wahlberg was charged with attempted murder, pled guilty to assault, and was sentenced to two years in jail at Boston's Deer Island House of Correction, of which he served 45 days. In another incident, the 21-year-old Wahlberg fractured the jaw of a neighbor in an unprovoked attack. Commenting in 2006 on his past crimes, Wahlberg has stated: "I did a lot of things that I regret, and I have certainly paid for my mistakes." He said the right thing to do would be to try to find the blinded man and make amends, and admitted he has not done so, but added that he was no longer burdened by guilt: "You have to go and ask for forgiveness and it wasn't until I really started doing good and doing right by other people, as well as myself, that I really started to feel that guilt go away. So I don't have a problem going to sleep at night. I feel good when I wake up in the morning."

After landing in prison he decided to change his ways. According to Wahlberg, "As soon as I began that life of crime, there was always a voice in my head telling me I was going to end up in jail. Three of my brothers had done time. My sister went to prison so many times I lost count. Finally I was there, locked up with the kind of guys I'd always wanted to be like. Now I'd earned my stripes and I was just like them, and I realized it wasn't what I wanted at all. I'd ended up in the worst place I could possibly imagine and I never wanted to go back. First of all, I had to learn to stay on the straight and narrow." Wahlberg first relied on the guidance of his parish priest to turn his back on crime. He told his street gang that he was leaving them and had "some serious fights" with them over it. The actor commented in 2009: "I've made a lot of mistakes in my life and I've done bad things, but I never blamed my upbringing for that. I never behaved like a victim so that I would have a convenient reason for victimizing others. Everything I did wrong was my own fault. I was taught the difference between right and wrong at an early age. I take full responsibility."

Career

Music

Wahlberg first came to fame as the younger brother of Donnie Wahlberg of the successful 1980s and 1990s boy band New Kids on the Block. Mark, at age thirteen, had been one of the group's original members, along with Donnie, Danny Wood, Jordan Knight, and Jonathan Knight. However, he soon quit. It was his departure that eventually allowed Joe McIntyre to take his place as the fifth member of the group.

Wahlberg began recording as Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch, earning a hit with "Good Vibrations" from the album ''Music for the People''. The record was produced by brother Donnie and later hit No.1 on The Billboard Hot 100, later becoming certified as a Platinum single. The second single, "Wildside," peaked at No.5 on ''Billboards'' Hot Singles Sales chart and at No.10 on The Billboard Hot 100. It was certified as a Gold Single. Marky Mark opened for the New Kids on the Block during their last tour. The second Marky Mark and The Funky Bunch LP, ''You Gotta Believe'', was not as successful as the prior, yielding only a minor hit single in the title track. Wahlberg later collaborated with the late reggae / ragga singer Prince Ital Joe on the album ''Life in the Streets''. The project combined rap and ragga vocals with strong eurodance music (as in the singles ''Happy People'', German No.1 hit ''United'', ''Life in the Streets'', and ''Babylon'') courtesy of Frank Peterson and Alex Christensen as producers.

He was also featured in the Black Label Society music video for "Counterfeit God", as a stand-in for the band's bassist.

Advertising

Wahlberg first displayed his physique in the ''Good Vibrations'' music video and most prominently in a series of underwear ads for Calvin Klein shot by Herb Ritts, following it with Calvin Klein television advertisements. Magazine and television promotions would sometimes feature Mark exclusively or accompanied by model Kate Moss. Annie Leibovitz also shot a famous session of Mark Wahlberg in underwear for ''Vanity Fair'''s annual Hall of Fame issue. He also made a workout video titled ''The Marky Mark Workout: Form... Focus... Fitness'' (ISBN 1-55510-910-1).

Film

Wahlberg dropped the "Marky Mark" moniker and began an acting career, making his debut in the 1993 TV movie ''The Substitute''. His big screen debut came the next year, with the Danny DeVito feature ''Renaissance Man''. A basketball fanatic, he caught the attention of critics after appearing in ''The Basketball Diaries'' in 1995, playing the role of Mickey alongside Leonardo DiCaprio, in a film adaptation of the Jim Carroll book of the same name. He also starred in the 1996 James Foley thriller ''Fear''.

He has earned many positive reviews after successful movies like ''Boogie Nights'' as Dirk Diggler, ''Three Kings'', ''The Perfect Storm'', ''The Italian Job'', and ''Four Brothers''. His performance in ''I ♥ Huckabees'' was voted best supporting performance of the year in the 2004 ''Village Voice'' Critics Poll. Wahlberg was originally cast as Linus Caldwell in ''Ocean's Eleven''; Matt Damon played the role instead. The two later worked together in ''The Departed''. Wahlberg was also considered for a role in the film ''Brokeback Mountain''. It was originally intended to star him and Joaquin Phoenix, but Wahlberg was uncomfortable with the film's sex scenes and his role ultimately went to Jake Gyllenhaal.

Wahlberg starred in the American football drama, ''Invincible'', based on the true story of bartender Vince Papale. He is also the executive producer of the HBO series ''Entourage'' which is loosely based on his experiences in Hollywood. He also appeared as a foul-mouthed Massachusetts State Police detective in Martin Scorsese's critically acclaimed thriller, ''The Departed'' in 2006, which netted him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor, a Golden Globe nomination for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture, and an NSFC Best Supporting Actor award. Wahlberg has confirmed that he was approached to star in a sequel to ''The Departed'', but it is still early in development. The sequel would reportedly revolve around the Staff Sergeant played by Wahlberg.

To prepare for his role in ''Shooter'', Wahlberg attended long-range shooting training at Front Sight Firearms Training Institute near Pahrump, Nevada, and was able to hit a target at 1100 yards on his second day, a feat which usually takes weeks to achieve. He has said in a number of interviews that he will retire at the age of 40 to concentrate on parenthood and professional golf. However, in early 2007 he indicated that the latter was no longer the plan as "his golf game is horrible". He played Jack Salmon, a leading role in Peter Jackson's film of ''The Lovely Bones''. In 2007, he starred opposite Joaquin Phoenix in ''We Own the Night'', a movie about a family of police officers in New York City.

He starred in M. Night Shyamalan's ''The Happening'' as Eliot Moore, which premiered in movie theatres on June 13, 2008. The same year, he played the title role in ''Max Payne'', based on a video game of the same name. While promoting ''Max Payne'', Mark became involved in a playful feud with ''Saturday Night Live'''s Andy Samberg and threatened to "crack that big fucking nose of his." Samberg had done an impression of Wahlberg in a ''Saturday Night Live'' skit titled "Mark Wahlberg Talks To Animals." However, Wahlberg later appeared in a follow-up skit parodying both the original skit, Samberg's impression of Wahlberg, and his own threats to Samberg.

Personal life

Family and relationships

In the early '90s, Wahlberg dated former child actress Soleil Moon Frye. Wahlberg and model Rhea Durham have been together since 2001 and were married on August 1, 2009 at the Good Shepherd Catholic Church in Beverly Hills. The couple have four children, Ella Rae (born September 2, 2003), Michael Robert (born March 21, 2006), Brendan Joseph (born September 16, 2008) and Grace Margaret (born January 11, 2010). In a 2011 interview with USA Weekend, Wahlberg stated that he had taken his children to visit his old south Boston neighborhood, saying ''"I want them to know that not everyone is as fortunate and how important it is to work hard and give back."''

His father, a US Army veteran of the Korean War, died on February 14, 2008.

Religion

Wahlberg is a committed Roman Catholic, who attends daily Mass, credits his faith and a priest from his childhood for helping him turn his life around, and recognizes the seriousness of his faith.

Charity work

Actively involved in charity, Wahlberg established the ''Mark Wahlberg Youth Foundation'' in May 2001 for the purpose of raising and distributing funds to youth service and enrichment programs.

Wahlberg is also active with The Good Shepherd Center for Homeless Women and Children. In an interview, Mark said that it's important to let the homeless know that people care about them and are working to help the impoverished get back on their feet.

Tattoos

Wahlberg has four tattoos done by various artists including Paul Timman. The tattoos include Sylvester the cat with Tweety Bird in his mouth on his ankle, a design of his initials "MW" with his surname "Wahlberg" on his upper right arm, and a Bob Marley tattoo with "One Love" on his upper left arm. The final tattoo, which Wahlberg holds as his most meaningful, is the rosary tattooed around his neck, with a crucifix and the words "In God I Trust" resting over his heart. On January 9, 2012 Wahlberg was a guest on The Late Show With David Letterman. He spoke about his tattoos and stated he is in the process of having them removed. Initially he was told it would take 8-10 laser treatments however he required over 30 treatments and is still in the process of getting them removed. He cited his career and children as the reason for the removal of the tattoos. His first tattoo was as a young teenager and it was of a shamrock. Because it was not professionally done, he said the shamrock was not straight and had the Tweety Bird tattoo placed over it after arriving in Los Angeles.

Discography

Filmography

+ List of acting performances in film and television
Title	Year	Role	Notes
''''		Ryan Westerberg	Credited as "Marky Mark"
! scope="row"		Private Tommy Lee Haywood
''''		Mickey
! scope="row"		David McCall	Nominated — MTV Movie Award for Best Villain
! scope="row"		Pat O'Hara
''Boogie Nights''		Eddie Adams/Dirk Diggler	Nominated — Satellite Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama
''''		Melvin Smiley
''''		Detective Danny Wallace
! scope="row"		Troy Barlow
''''		Leo Handler
''''		Robert "Bobby" Shatford
! scope="row"		Captain Leo Davidson
! scope="row"		Chris "Izzy" Cole
''''		Joshua Peters
''''		Charlie Croker	Main role
''I Heart Huckabees''		Tommy Corn	Village Voice Film Poll – Best Supporting PerformanceNominated — Chlotrudis Award for Best Supporting ActorNominated — Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
! scope="row"		Robert "Bobby" Mercer	Main role
! scope="row"			Main role
''''		Sgt. Sean Dignam
! scope="row"		GySgt. Bob Lee Swagger	Main role
''We Own the Night''		Captain Joseph "Joe" Grusinsky
''''		Elliot Moore
! scope="row"
''''		Jack Salmon
''Date Night''		Holbrooke Grant
''''		Detective Terry Hoitz	Lead role
''''		"Irish" Micky Ward
! scope="row"		Chris Farraday
! scope="row"		John
! scope="row"		Billy Taggart	''filming''
			''pre-production''

+ List of credits as producer
Title	Year	Role	Notes
! scope="row"		Executive producer
''We Own the Night''		Producer
''In Treatment''		Executive producer
''How to Make It in America''		Executive producer
''Boardwalk Empire''		Executive producer
''''		Producer
! scope="row"		Producer

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