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One-Way Trichet?
Making his way toward Paris one day, the impecunious Rabelais found himself stra...
Tromatic Experience
In 1974 Yale students Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz founded an independent New ...
Debasing Comment
In his late twenties, John Maynard Keynes traveled to Africa with a friend from ...
James Hill
In his diary, Rene Gimpel, a French art dealer who helped many robber barons to ...
AK-47?
Early in his career, mystery writer Erle Stanley Gardner earned a living churnin...
Bare Necessity?
Many visitors to Picasso's home in the south of France were astonished to find t...
Benny Pincher?
One day Jack Benny, famed for his role as a violin-playing miser, used a pay toi...
Village Hypocrite
One day while campaigning for the U.S. Senate (in February 2000), Hillary "It Ta...
Cheap Shot
During his wild youth, Joe E. Lewis stayed for a time at a boardinghouse whose p...
Sean Connery: Double-O Chea...
One day in 2003, Sean Connery hired a limousine in New York. After driving Conne...
J. Paul Getty: Famously Frugal
The billionaire oil baron John Paul Getty was famously frugal. When his 16-year-...
Alex Nussbaum & Hugo Boss
"Hugo Boss manufactured the first Nazi uniforms," Jewish comedian Alex Nussbaum ...
Visionary Thinker?
Sir Squire Bancroft was a notorious tightwad. Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree once too...
John D. Rockefeller: Rockef...
One day John D. Rockefeller made a call from a pay phone - and lost his quarter....
Duke of Cheap
For twenty years Walter Monckton served as a faithful unpaid servant of the Duke...
Frugal Falk (long)
In 1960, Peter Falk was offered the role of mafia killer Abe Reles in a low-budg...
JFK: Crushing Victory?
At a banquet one evening, John F. Kennedy addressed criticism that his wealthy f...
Christmas in L. A.
"My father was so cheap," A. J. Jamal once recalled, "that one year he told us S...
Groucho Marx: Two Dozen Roses
"Send two dozen roses to Room 424," Groucho Marx once instructed, "and put 'Emil...
Ray Kroc: What a Kroc
One day while driving in Southern California, McDonald's chief Ray Kroc paid a s...
Johnson's Patron
During the eleven years which he spent compiling his famous dictionary, Samuel J...
Madonna's Wedding
During their wedding in December 2000, Madonna and Guy Ritchie were given an unu...
Scotsman's Handkerchief
After dining with several sheriffs and judges at a formal Old Bailey banquet (in...
Dust to Dust
Five years after D. H. Lawrence's death and burial in France, his widow Frieda L...
Fontenelle
When various accounting anomalies were discovered at the French Academy, one of ...
Frugal Weston
George Weston, the billionaire founder of Canada's Weston food empire, died in a...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt &...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was once accused by Republicans of using taxpayer mone...
Hard Times?
While driving to the office one day, Lord Thomson's son (and co-chairman) Kennet...
Secret Life of Salvador Dali
One day Salvador Dali entered a New York bookstore and asked for a copy of his b...
Boomerang
Though Anthony Anderson, the oldest of four children, "boomeranged" (returned ho...
Ring Lardner & Arthur Jacks...
While staying in a hotel one night, Ring Lardner and Arthur Jacks stocked their ...
Tommy Cooper: Taxi Tip
Comedian Tommy Cooper got out of a taxi one day and slipped something papery int...
Cheapass
Oscar Levant was notorious for visiting George S. Kaufman and his wife - and rat...
Igor Stravinsky: Weighty Ob...
Igor Stravinsky was once ordered by an airport official to pay a surcharge for e...
Plimpton's Artichoke
"When Elaine's opened," George Plimpton once recalled of the New York landmark, ...
Benny's Wedding
Notwithstanding his famous miserly persona, Jack Benny, according to his manager...
Small Problem
During the production of Casablanca (1942), Michael Curtiz was on such a ...
Bill Gates: Charity Case
One day in 2003, Microsoft chief Bill Gates met with Tom Brokaw at a humble Sout...
Maura Kennedy: Cheap Date
Maura Kennedy: "This guy took me to a coffee house for a dollar tea, then starts...
Diogenes: Little Thief
Diogenes once observed a thief (who had stolen a silver cup from the treasury) b...
Rod Stewart & True Britt
In True Britt, Britt Ekland's tell-all bio, the author dished the dirt on...
'Rip Torn'
Kenneth Branagh once found a director's chair labeled 'Rip Torn'. Though named f...
Tight-Fisted
"Irving Berlin understood the value of hard-earned money from early on. Hawking ...
Benny Pincher
Jack Benny was famed for his role as a comical miser. "When Jack Benny has a par...
Morgan Loan
J. P. Morgan was once asked by a friend to lend him some money. Morgan took the ...
Roger Corman: Inside Joke
Like many of Roger Corman's former proteges, director Joe Dante later hired the ...
*NCheap?
One evening Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey visited the exclusive Ivy restaurant...
Holy Moment
At a Labor Day rally during the 1952 presidential election, a photographer snapp...
Zachary Taylor: Due Diligence
One day in 1848, Zachary Taylor was visited by a messenger with an important mes...
Harvey Weinstein & the Star...
The production delays on Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York were a sourc...
Penny Pinchers
"In a speech to the Press Club William Blackwood replied to a jocular proposal b...
Cross Bearer?
Shortly after receiving the cross of the Legion of Honor, Anatole France (whose ...
Classic Strauss
The legendary publisher Roger Strauss was famed for his frugality. After he move...
Wiffle Ball
One day in 1953, an unemployed man named David Nelson Mullany cut holes in a har...
Witch of Wall Street
Hetty Green parlayed a small inheritance into a fortune worth some $100-million ...
Roger Corman: Little Shop o...
Roger Corman was famed for his frugality. Indeed, during the production of ...
French Academy
One day, at the behest of a friend, Tristan Bernard submitted a hastily-assemble...
Tightwad
In June 1995, Hugh Grant paid a prostitute named Divine Brown $60 for oral sex. ...
Big Ruse
The theatrical producer John Golden once invited Rose Franken (the noted author ...
Bowen Salad
"Elizabeth Bowen, the novelist, and I [Alan Pryce-Jones] were invited to tea by ...
Halfpenny Macmillan
"I went to see Harold Macmillan immediately after his resignation in 1963," Sir ...
Rockefeller's Suit
John D. Rockefeller showed little concern for his personal appearance. One of hi...
Gambling Tycoons
In August 2000, Australian tycoon Kerry Packer lost $20 million gambling in Las ...
Babas au Rhum
Tristan Bernard had tea one day with a notoriously stingy hostess, who offered t...
Meighen's Coat
Canadian prime minister Arthur Meighen (who once appeared in the House of Common...
Concert Promoter Bill Graham
The legendary concert promoter Bill Graham, who organized massive concerts for s...
Damme Cheapskate?
"Is Jean-Claude Van Damme a cheapskate?" the Examiner asked in June 2002....
Rod Stewart: Cheap Date
"Even rock stars have to scale back their spending in these financially troubled...
Bill Paxton: Valet Parking
Bill Paxton once briefly worked as a valet, parking cars at the Beverly Hills Ho...
David Duchovny: Protestant Jew
David Duchovny was born on August 7th, 1960, on Manhattan's Lower East Side. His...
Hy Brown: Fresh Flowers
Shooting on Mel Brooks's The Producers began in May 1967 at Hy Brown stud...
J. Paul Getty: Cheapass
The billionaire oil baron John Paul Getty was so cheap that he personally washed...
Harold Ballard: Streaker
A streaker once ran through Maple Leaf Gardens during an NHL hockey game. Toront...
Martha Stewart: Merry Chris...
At a pivotal moment in Martha Stewart's trial (for insider trading in Imclone st...
Leonardo DiCaprio: Cheapest...
Gisele Bundchen once boasted that, when she and Leonardo DiCaprio went out for d...
Zwemmer
At 16, Paul Hamlyn applied to the bookseller Anton Zwemmer for a job. The interv...
Generous Interpretation?
Although he was the highest paid star of the 1960's, Steve McQueen had a reputat...
Jon Favreau: Gift Surprise
"I gave my mother-in-law a DVD player that I received as a thank-you from a movi...
Greg Raymer: New Watch
After Greg Raymer won the $5 million first prize in ESPN's World Series of Poker...
Tucking In?
Sophie Tucker was once asked about her frugal ways. "From birth to 18 a girl nee...
Tightwad George
One night, a bouncer at an exotic club did George Clooney the courtesy of tellin...
Scavenger
"Often when the Marquis of Clanricard dined at his club he would eat sandwiches ...
Curt Reply
Famed publisher Roger Strauss was famed for his frugality. Writer John McPhee on...
Harry Warner
Warner Bros. co-founder Harry Warner, the eldest of the four Warner brothers and...
Artificial Compliment
"During a visit to Marienbad," Lord Ormathwaite once recalled, "I accompanied Ki...
Like Clockwork
Throughout the production of A Clockwork Orange, Stanley Kubrick and Malc...
Penny Pincher
Ty Cobb was among the most widely-loathed players in baseball history - and not ...
Operatic Persona
John Christie (founding father of the Glyndebourne Opera) was ambivalent about e...
Jewish Courtney Love
"Since Courtney Love discovered she's Jewish and not Irish, she's having the sha...
Logan's Cutbacks
AOL and Time Warner merged at the height of the tech bubble in 2001, just before...
Young Kid Rock: Hard-Drivin...
Kid Rock's relationship with his hard-driving father (whom he later lambasted on...
Ron Howard & Roger Corman
During the production of Grand theft Auto, novice director Ron Howard ask...
Howard Dean: JC Penney Suit
While campaigning for the 2004 presidential election, Democratic candidate Howar...
Jack Daniels
Van Halen frontman David Lee Roth once spent thousands of dollars designing enor...
Miser
In 1961, Jack Benny, famed for his role as a violin-playing miser, appeared as a...
$64 Question
Jack Benny, famed for his role as a violin-playing miser, once appeared on the T...
John Paul Getty: Caprice
One evening during the rationing period after World War II, John Paul Getty invi...
Rockefrugal
"When John D. Rockefeller [America's first billionaire] drove into the rough and...
Fleischer Wedding
In 2002, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer elicited a host of Jewish and other...
Lisa Kudrow: Down to Earth
During a "Tonight Show" appearance after the broadcast of the last episode of "F...
Gina Gershon: Extravagance
Rolling Stone once asked several celebrities about their "biggest ever sp...
Frugal Bobby Fischer
Bobby Fischer cemented his reputation for boorishness during a world-championshi...
Russian Parliament
In 2004, a cafeteria in the Russian parliament, prompted by a rash of disappeari...
Sharon Osbourne: Ya Right
One day in September 2003, shortly after Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez called o...
Diogenes: Favorite Wine
The Greek Cynic philosopher Diogenes was once asked what sort of wine he liked b...
M&M
After Partition in 1947, Mohammed Ali Jinnah (1876–1948), Pakistan's founder and...
Shop Talk
One of Socrates' friends, well aware of his frugality, was surprised to find him...
Wal-Mart Associates
Wal-Mart President and CEO H. Lee Scott, Jr. was so frugal that on business trip...
Pre-War Currency
"Somerset Maugham, towards the end of his life persisted in tipping in French ho...
Tight Budget
During the production of Halloween, director John Carpenter was on such a...
Sole Man
Such was his distaste for extravagance that the Duke of Westminster often had h...
Breakfast Kipper
"Though amply provided fpr. Diana Cooper retamed a talent for scavenging that wo...
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