Crackajack Love is a story about the choices we all make. Alexander Price is an ambitious, naïve Georgia farm boy who dreams of becoming a movie star when.
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Learn more about Amazon Prime. Crackajack Love is a story about the choices we all make. Alex begins a liaison with Jim Conner, another soldier and fellow-actor, prior to being transferred to Korea. After a torrid affair, Robin returns to California and helps Alex prepare for an acting career. Alex and Robin carry on a long-distance romance although he and Jim continue to exchange love letters.
Alex agonizes over his predicament and realizes that he must choose. Crackajack Love is a rich, romantic journey that takes the reader on a search for love, friendship, and an acting career. The novel is told with Southern frankness, compassion, and humor against a backdrop of Seoul, New York, and Hollywood in the early s. Read more Read less. Kindle Cloud Reader Read instantly in your browser. Product details File Size: April 14, Sold by: Related Video Shorts 0 Upload your video. Share your thoughts with other customers. Write a customer review. There was a problem filtering reviews right now.
Please try again later. Alex Price is a star-struck young man from South Georgia whose lifelong dream is to become a movie star. A man who only feels real when he is portraying someone else. As the story begins, he is struggling through his time in the military, and is about to be shipped to Korea when he meets the love of his life Jim.
But shortly afterward, in Korea, he also meets the love of his life Robin. As Alex tries to work out his true sexual identity and develop his career path, he meets many interesting people of both persuasions and makes lifelong friendships. Alex is a charmer, and not only that, he has the looks of-well-a god. Young ladies and gentlemen throw themselves at him and ask for his autograph before he has had his first screen test. This is a young man's fantasy-everything comes easy to good old Alex.
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But can he keep it up? Who will he spend his life with? And is he really destined for cinematic success, or is it just a pipe dream?
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Well, I'm not going to tell you, so you'll have to buy a copy of Crackajack Love, and read it for yourself. Author Bill Jackson writes in smooth, flowing prose, with an engaging wealth of detail and interesting personalities. The book does have its flaws. This reader would have liked to see more action, fewer lengthy conversations, fewer paragraphs of social pleasantries and the pouring of drinks. But hey-it moves right along, it's entertaining, and you can't help liking Alex in spite of his shallowness.
I finished the book in two days and enjoyed it thoroughly. If you have issues about homosexuality, this book may not be for you.
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Reviewed by Louis N. Spink, author of After Midnight in Savannah. Army and Tinseltown in this romantic novel set in In Chicago there are two legends of how Cracker-Jacks originated.
Another attributes it to Frederick William Rueckheim—a German immigrant known informally as "Fritz"—sold popcorn at Fourth Avenue, now known as Federal Street, in Chicago beginning in The Rueckheim legend is filled with exaggerations since sugar coated popcorn with molases and mixed with peanuts, as we have already seen above in news clippings was already known at least by the 's.
The Rueckheim popcorn was made by hand using steam equipment. In , Fritz bought out his partner, William Brinkmeyer, and brought his brother Louis Rueckheim over from Germany to join in his venture, forming the company F. The Rueckheim Brothers produced a new recipe including popcorn, peanuts, and molasses, and first presented it to the public at the World's Columbian Exposition Chicago's first World's Fair in However, the molasses was sticky in this early prototype. In , Louis discovered a method to separate the kernels of molasses-coated popcorn during the manufacturing process.
As each batch was mixed in a cement-mixer-like drum, a small quantity of oil was added—a closely guarded trade secret. Before this change, the mixture had been difficult to handle, as it stuck together in chunks.
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In , the first lot of Cracker Jack was produced, the same year the name was registered. It was named by an enthusiastic sampler who remarked: In , the company was reorganized as Rueckheim Bros. Cracker Jack's mascots Sailor Jack and his dog Bingo were introduced as early as [8] and registered as a trademark in Robert, the son of the third and eldest Rueckheim brother, Edward, died of pneumonia shortly after his image appeared at the age of 8.
Henry's Cemetery in Chicago. Russell died of old age in On April 30, , Frito-Lay expanded the Cracker Jack product line to include other salty snacks in the spirit of the original Cracker Jack. In addition, unlike the original Cracker Jack, Cracker Jack'D has not featured prizes in its packages. Cracker Jack is known for being commonly sold at baseball games and is mentioned in the American standard " Take Me Out to the Ball Game ".
On June 16, , the th anniversary of Cracker Jack was celebrated at Wrigley Field during the game between the Cubs and the expansion Florida Marlins. Before the game, Sailor Jack, the company's mascot, threw out the ceremonial first pitch. In , the New York Yankees baseball team replaced Cracker Jack with the milder, sweet butter toffee -flavored Crunch 'n Munch at home games.
After public outcry, the club switched back to Cracker Jack. The Cracker Jack Company began advertising, on television, in Actor Jack Gilford appeared in many TV commercials for Cracker Jack from until , and was most recognized as the "rubber-faced guy on the Cracker Jack commercials" for a dozen years. It was the first advertising for the Cracker Jack brand on television in 15 years. Cracker Jack originally included a small "mystery" novelty item referred to as a "Toy Surprise" in each box.
Prizes were included in every box of Cracker Jack beginning in Books have been written cataloging the prizes, [20] and a substantial collector's market exists.