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Every Christmas season needs a good Scrooge. You’ll be pleased to know we have one in the pinchpenny person of J. Paul Getty, who pinches countless billions while refusing to pay a penny of ransom for his kidnapped grandson in “All the Money in the World.”
Ridley Scott’s film was brought back from the dead, with surprising success, by a last-minute star transplant. As everyone—all right, almost everyone—knows by now, Kevin Spacey had completed his starring role as Getty, the richest man of his time, or perhaps of any time;…