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Unofficially, the Streak probably began in the late '60s in the basement of the Ripken household, by then in Aberdeen, Maryland. Says Vi Ripken, the matriarch of the Ripken clan (daughter Ellen, sons Cal Jr., Fred and Billy): "I wish I had a nickel for every time I heard 'Just one more game, Mom.' The kids would be playing Ping-Pong in the basement, and it was always a struggle to get them to come upstairs for dinner, and even more of a struggle to get them to go to bed. Nobody liked to end the night on a loss...
...patriarch of the scientific clan was the larger-than-life Louis. Born in Kenya's highlands in 1903, the son of British missionaries, he grew up speaking Kikuyu with his friends and feeling more African than European. While doing research at Cambridge, he precipitated the first of many Leakey scandals. He deserted his first wife and two young children to marry artist and archaeologist Mary Nicol. He was also unable to document fully some of his early fossil claims. Undeterred, he returned to Kenya to vindicate himself...
...hurricane starts the scavengers crawling. Edie Marsh, sexy in her shoplifted wardrobe, has spent several months trolling for Kennedys, hoping to extract a little ladylike blackmail. But the Kennedy season is just about over; most of the clan has moved on to Hyannis. When the big storm blows substandard roofs off half of Dade County's ranchettes, Edie and her business partner branch out into insurance fraud. Soon the lizards are frisking: sleazy developers, mendacious salesmen, crooked building inspectors, clueless and boorish tourists. These sorry folk are what is called the fabric of society. Hiaasen's good guys...
...jumps onto your lap like a large shaggy dog that will do anything to get your attention. It's friendly but still has teeth, like The Prince of Tides with its theme of family violence barely concealed in Southern blarney. Beach Music's Jack McCall has his own troublesome clan in South Carolina. His father the Judge is a brilliant drunk. Mom is a former striptease dancer, feisty cancer patient and savior of threatened loggerhead turtles. McCall's brothers include a hermit who lives in a tree house. Friends are also conspicuously memorable: a former beauty queen who writes film...
...Dole's views sound tinny and half-desperate. Like the lamest films, Dole goes for the spectacular (guns, violence, melodrama) rather than the substantive (love, sex, race, class). The main thing Dole, weak rappers and weak movies share is an ultimate goal: money. Staten Island hip-hoppers Wu-Tang Clan said it best with their 1994 hit single, C.R.E.A.M. (Cash Rules Everything Around...