Posted on 07/29/2002 1:39:35 AM PDT by kattracks
Edited on 05/26/2004 5:07:51 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
July 29, 2002 -- While Denis Leary's charity work for firefighters has made headlines, what's not well know is that he might easily have been a smoke-eater himself had he not made it in showbiz.
"You had three choices in my family," he told The Post. "You either became a Teamster, which is what my brother did, or a cop, which is what many of my cousins did, or a fireman, which my cousin Jerry [Lucey] did.
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