Age and guile beats youth and inexperience, again

From an article about telegrams:

'Western Union charged by the word, turning the loquacious terse, and sometimes ambiguous. A reporter asked the actor Cary Grant about his age:

HOW OLD CARY GRANT?

The actor supposedly replied:

OLD CARY GRANT FINE. HOW YOU?'

- New York Times, 12 February 2006