Best Mustache in Broward, Palm Beach, Planet Earth: Burt Reynolds

Flickr: Photo by Alan Light

The Reynolds 'stache in full bloom at the 1992 Emmys

​We have some splendid local mustaches, but the only suspense in this week's contest was for readers who forgot that Burt Reynolds is eligible based on his brief residence at a West Palm Beach addiction treatment center. Reynolds lives just north of the Palm Beach County border, in Hobe Sound, but he spent much of his youth -- at least the mustache-growing years -- in Riviera Beach.

What is there left to say about Burt? He was a naturally handsome man, but minus the mustache he'd have never become a matinee idol. Imagine if he'd never bothered to grow one? The world would have never known?

In fact, maybe you need to unlock your own mustache mojo, Burt-style. Indeed, there's no time like the present -- by growing a mustache in the month of November you're eligible for Movember, the charity that raises money for prostate cancer. Let those clean-shaven friends laugh all they want. Your facial hair has a social conscience.