Dyan Cannon meets Cary Grant: “I felt for a second like I’d been hit by a stun gun… I hadn’t, and still haven’t, seen anyone who radiated such godlike masculine beauty.” It was the early 1960s, and Cannon was a girl who looked good in a bikini. Grant was pushing 60 and one of the biggest movie stars on the planet. The Cannon-Grant age difference was intergalactic, 30 years plus, a number on a par with the Grand Canyon’s depth. But, all right, he was Cary Grant. The “dreamiest man in the world” was how one of Cannon’s girlfriends (“a top model,” Cannon explains) described the new fellow in her buddy’s life. I bet she meant it, and if she didn’t she should have.
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