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(You can hear brief clips of Ginsberg reading from "" and ".") Sports mogul Jack Kent Cooke was remembered as a voracious, colorful rags-to-riches entrepreneur who built two dynasties (the Los Angeles Lakers and Washington Redskins) while living a sumptuous life that included four successive wives, two of them too young to be his daughters.
During this final season, Roseanne attempted the most desperate plot device of them all: She had her TV family win $108 million in the lottery, replicating her own rags-to-riches story.