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Dana Carvey says,

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Mickey Rooney would flash wads of cash
in his face when they worked on the

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short-lived 1982 sitcom. One of the boys,

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Carvey told his Fly on the wall
podcast co-host David Spade,

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that Rooney quote was doing sugar babies
on Broadway getting 50,000 a week.

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And then the TV show they were giving him
$50,000 a week and he'd been broke for

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decades. According to Carvey,

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Rooney would carry around $5,000 with him
and he'd waive the cash under Garvey's

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face and say, think I can afford lunch.

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Which rules the Ss n L alum also said,
Rooney would often tell him on set,

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I was the number one star in the
world. You hear me? Bang the world.

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That's what he said. Every day,
every 45 minutes down the hallway,

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number one star, Carvey continued.
Mickey was 62 when I worked with him,

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had an incredible amount of
energy and was very, very bitter,

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and he lived to 95. So
bitterness won't kill you.

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Looks like Carvey might be onto something.

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Rooney died in 2014 of natural causes.

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He was 93 years old and flush with cash.