title: Impossibly Funky: A Cashiers Du Cinemart Collection
author:  Mike White 
description: A quality read for cult movie people, particularly if your taste runs the gamut from multiplex fare to obscuro-indies. --Schlockmania<br /><br />Bolstered by "13.2% all new stuff," <i>Impossibly Funky: A Cashiers du Cinemart Collection</i> is the coolest film book of the year that you most likely do not know about. --Bookgasm<br /><br /><span>The odds are damn fine that you will still enjoy this book. It's got more variety than a holiday Whitman's sampler and tastes better too. </span> --Mondo Heather<br /><br />The subject matter is varied, as is the tone, making it the perfect light read. It is a love letter to film. --Paracinema<br /><br />Over the years [Cashiers du Cinemart] became more than a slaughterhouse for Hollywood's sacred cows, publishing meticulously researched articles about obscure film figures. --Michael Jackman, The Metro Times
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  # The Tale of a Tightwad
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### William Slavens McNutt
  
  
  This page copyright © 2001 Blackmask Online.
  
  
  http://www.blackmask.com
  
  * [I](taletigh_split_2.html#1_0_2)
  
  
  * [II](taletigh_split_3.html#1_0_3)
  
  
  * [III](taletigh_split_4.html#1_0_4)
  
  
  * [IV](taletigh_split_5.html#1_0_5)
  
  
  * [V](taletigh_split_6.html#1_0_6)
  
  
  * [VI](taletigh_split_7.html#1_0_7)
  
  
  * [SHADOWS](taletigh_split_8.html#1_0_8)
  
  
  
  
  
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  ### I
  
  
  
  
  
    
  I like dollars same as I like race-horses," the saleslady behind
  
  
  the hotel cigar-counter explained. "I like 'em when they're movin', an'
  
  
  furnishin' some excitement to the onlookers. A race- horse packed in a
  
  
  can don't make anybody's heart beat faster, does it? No! Well, a dollar
  
  
  buried for life in a bank is my idea of nothing useful.
  
  
    
  "It's all right to put a race-horse in his stall now an' then, to
  
  
  let him get his growth, or recover his wind for the next heat. But they
  
  
  only bed a racehorse