Word: tightwads
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...TIGHTWAD JOHN KENNEDY refusing to buy his motorcade gas at a service station that doesn't give green stamps--such was one of the opening shots of liberal political satire in the 1960's. Vaughn Meader's impersonation of Kennedy on his album The First Family embodied two traditional characteristics of humorous caricature and parody. The imitation bore a superficial resemblance to its subject while the content made us aware that the impression was not the original. It felt good to laugh at a caricature that in its own ludicrous way reduced Kennedy to understandable human terms. Yet, we didn...
Martin's ever-present highball glass reinforces the general impression that he appears on-camera half gassed. But, as his bartender and his best friends know, Dean Martin is no more an out-of-control toper than Jack Benny is a 39-year-old tightwad. Dino on-camera affects a skinful for the same reason that Jack affects the skinflint. Martin's matchless comic timing, the testimony of his neighbors on Beverly Hills' Mountain Drive, his easy coping with a fast-moving life, all suggest a man who uses booze rather than letting...
...ROGUES (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Charles Boyer, Robert Coote and Gladys Cooper star in an episode about teaching the true meaning of giving to a tightwad millionaire, played by John McGiver. Repeat...
Neither a sentimental showman nor a tightwad, he has shown that Hollywood can still make competent movies that are bids for quality within their own form and stay in the black, and that, as he puts it, "if you are going to manufacture anything, you ought to have the finest plant and facilities." But the heavy financial investments needed to create such an entity would be for nought without a special flair for sensing what is acceptable to the public-for that, ultimately, accounts for success in the entertainment world. This Lew Wasser man has to a unique degree...
...rich because in my most prosperous days salaries were not what they are now," he says. Rich, in Beyer's vocabulary must be a stupendous word indeed, since Boyer is reputedly worth $3,000,000 or $4,000,000. "Charles," a friend says, "is a tightwad...