When true giants meet, there may be questions to answer. Clark Gable, on meeting William Faulkner, who had just received the Nobel prize for Literature, politely asked him: "So, you are a writer then, I hear?" William Faulkner answered: "Yes. And what might your profession be?"  "I mostly admired Clark for his lack of vanity... One day I happened on him at an outdoor faucet in the Alley where he´d stopped to wash off his denture. Clark grinned, pointed to his caved-in mouth and said with an exaggerated lisp, - Look! America´s thweetheart -!" Anita Loos, from "Kiss Hollywood goodbye".
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