VLVL Ralph Sr.

[Terrance]

Hey, like what's not to love about Ralph Sr. anyways? Huh? What's with
all this anti-Family talk? His crib? Fascist? Oh come on. I've got a
Med-Rev down in Miami that we bought from Walter Cronkite. Does that
make me a bad guy?  

Ralph at Play in the pool. Gotta love a guy who wears Brooks Brothers
trunks and lifts a towel from the Fairmont. Ralph enjoys quality stuff
and is still a regular guy. The man likes Peace And Quiet. Is that a
crime? 

Strangers may think he enjoys a young office secretary on her knees
under his desk, but Ralph Sr. doesn't go for that kind of power. 

And, while his straight-shootin friends and his shrink try to wise him
up to control freak management and puttin on airs of kingpin
indifference, Ralph is kindhearted and considerate. The guy likes
children and they like him back. 

Ralph Sr. swims, plays tennis, eats good, has a lovely wife, a smart
daughter, a son in the movie business, and a son who is a little lost
and still finding himself. Ralph Sr. is traditional. And he's a patient
father. He doesn't walk away from Ralph Jr., he doesn't put a hit on the
band. 


Everyone loves hangin at His Cucumber Lounge. 

The Cucumber Lounge property extended back from the disreputable neon
roadhouse itself into a few acres of virgin redwood grove. Dwarfed and
overshadowed by the towering dim red trees were two dozen motel cabins,
with wood stoves, porches, barbecues, waterbeds, and cable TV. (9) 

Van Meter digs the place. He's been living there for years. Hector hangs
out there. Zoyd jumps there. 

Ralph Sr. is a sharp business man. He diversified out of the drug
business at the right time.