Interesting And Amusing Nose Anecdotes

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In the process of creating our site we subscribed to a Google service that sends us news about the nose. I recently came across this cleverly written gem by Cristie Hurd about a nose cake. It made me laugh and I want to share it with you. It's a little long for this page so I gave it its own page called the Nose Cake Anecdote.

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• While J. P. Morgan's nose, disfigured and inflamed by a chronic skin disease, was a popular topic of conversation, the subject was not usually broached in Morgan's presence. During a dinner party one evening, however, the banker was addressed by his nervous hostess with the words, "Do you take nose in your tea, Mr. Morgan?"
  Sources: E. Wagenknecht, American Profile
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• One day during one of his early films, Gary Cooper played a location scene so well that the director was able to shoot it in a single take. That night, however, Cooper visited the director's tent to ask whether the scene could be done again in the morning. "I seem to remember," the actor explained, "at one point I picked my nose I was so nervous." "Listen," the director replied, "you were so damn nervous you were great. You keep acting that way and you can pick your nose into a fortune".
  Sources: Hedda Hopper, The Whole Truth and Nothing But, p. 109
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• Shortly after she had become a grandmother, Joan Rivers was told by the proud new parents that the baby had her nose. Rivers disagreed. "I didn't get this nose," she later explained, "until I was 34!"
  Sources: "Open Mike with Mike Bullard", 2002
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• Matthew Perry was once asked whether he had had a nose job (as widely rumored). No, he replied; he had only had non-cosmetic surgery for a deviated septum. "Matthew Perry could not breathe through the left side of his nose," Perry explained, "to the extent that neighbors used to call up in the night asking, 'Do you have a bizarre animal tied up in your house?'"
  Sources: "Linehan"
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• "At 13, [Jennifer Lopez] gained her famous profile when a truck carrying cylinders of compressed gas hit her mother's car. One of the truck's headlights came through the windscreen and crashed into the back of the car, where young Jennifer was sitting. Luckily, she was bent down, tying her shoelace and received only a broken nose, rather than a face fit only for a starring role in Mask."
  Sources: tiscali.co.uk, Jennifer Lopez bio
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• "[Jake Lamotta's] nose is remarkable. It looks like a mine shaft that has collapsed or a sausage that has been cut up and clumsily reassembled by a child, and when he breathes through it, it sounds like a death rattle. It is the kind of nose you get from more than 120 professional fights and never hitting the canvas once. Even when, under intolerable pressure from the mob, he threw a fight against Billy Fox in November 1947, he refused to go down. 'Only my wives knocked me down,' he says now."
  Sources: Maxim UK, Oct. 2001
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• In the mid-1950s, Bob Wolff became the voice of Madison Square Garden. "The reason I got the job," Wolff once recalled, "is that the cigar sponsor and others said to the Garden, 'You got to hire this guy; he can sell anything--not well, but he tries.' "My first night at Madison Square Garden, they let me ad-lib the cigar ads. The big commercial was the Robert Burns Imperial, which was 25 cents, their top-of-the-line cigar in that glass tube. They told me to talk about its aroma--the smell of that fresh tobacco--and I'll never forget looking in the camera, the cigar under my nose, and saying, 'Boy, this has a wonderful fragrance and aroma. And what rich tobacco!'

  "The telephones start ringing and the vice president of the ad agency said, 'Congratulations, those words were great. Just one suggestion. The next time you're talking about that cigar and its wonderful aroma, please take it out of the glass tube first.'"
  [Sources: Cigar Aficionado, 1996; Peter Golenbock, Bums]
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• "It was my mother who discovered my nose," Bob Hope once recalled. "'Call back the doctor,' she cried, 'He's taken the baby and left the stork!'"
  [Sources: comedystars.com]
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• At a party one night in 1979, Mel Gibson got drunk and became involved in a brawl with three other men. Nonethless, Gibson showed up for an audition the next day - with stitches in his head, a broken nose, and a disconnected jaw. Ironically, George Miller was delighted with Gibson's appearance and promptly awarded him the title role in the film he was casting: the classic road-warrior flick Mad Max.
  Sources: tiscali.co.uk, mel Gibson bio; The People magazine, UK]
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• Junius Booth, who had once suffered a badly broken nose, was once approached by a female admirer. "You're such a wonderful actor, Mr. Booth," she enthused, "but to be perfectly frank with you, I can't get over your nose." "There's no wonder, madam," Junius replied. "The bridge is gone."
  Sources: E. Fuller, 2500 Anecdotes]
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• Though quarrelsome and arrogant, the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe was one of the most colorful characters in the history of science - literally. After having most of his nose cut off in a midnight duel in 1565 (over a mathematical argument), young Tycho made a replacement - out of gold, silver and wax.
  Sources: Isaac Asimov's Book of Facts; NU news
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