Jack Wakes Up
Jack Palms, a one-hit wonder ex-action-movie actor hits the streets of San Francisco to help a group of Czech drug buyers make one big score, a drug deal that he hopes will set him up for life. But when things turn difficult, he has to decide what side of acting and action he's really on.
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an. He sees a new Mustang parked here too, a convertible, but it's one of the recent releases he's heard so much about. Supposedly they're more powerful than his with the same size engine. Forty years later and they must have reengineered it to do something better, because it'll never look as good as the Fastback. They've only made a lighter body, it's likely, and that's no great feat with forty years of technology on your side.
Getting out of his car, Jack catches a quick second-glance from the parking attendant--the look Ralph described; people know Jack, recognize him still. As San Francisco goes, mostly sports stars and locals, not that many actors, Jack's face is one of the few that people recognize. The fact that his breakup with Cora made a few tabloids makes it worse, means he reaches a wider, lower segment of society. So the look can mean one of two things: they recognize a faded image of something that was once good and now old, or they remember the trash tabloid news of his addictio
