THE TWO CARY GRANTS IN MY LIFE

There were two Cary Grants in my life.  The Cary Grant y'all know, the movie star.  And then there was the Cary Grant you didn't know, my brother... the one who slept in the bunk bed above me every night... the one I would run to when I thought I saw ghosts...the one who got  all dressed up to go to his prom and our mother made him take me AND his date... and you know, I won the dance contest.  And he never complained...

The two Cary Grants came together for me at Radio City Music Hall where my big brother was an usher.  He looked so handsome in his tuxedo.  And the other Cary Grant was right up there on the screen and he looked just as handsome in his.

When I came home from Radio City I would tell my mother all about the shows that I saw.  But I never told her the secret I was keeping...

"You know, when I was ten years old, nobody knew that when I would go to the candy counter the candy man would follow me to the bathroom, pull down his pants and ask me to touch it and I did. I never told, and do you know in all those years I never got not one Almond Joy?"

An excerpt from CARY GRANT'S YOUNGER BROTHER.  The one-character play by Ronald Grant