Grant doing a photoshoot with Matthew Brady midafternoon. Brady sends an assistant upstairs to cover the skylight. He slips and shatters the light. Shards of glass two inches thick fall exactly where Grant is sitting. Each one could have killed him. Brady looks over. Grant hasn't moved. He is unhurt. Grant, silences up, then back at the camera as if nothing noteworthy had happened.

Brady: 'The most remarkable display of nerve I ever witnessed.'

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