Daily Updates

Subject:     GH: Update for Fri 11/15/96
Sent:        11/17/96 4:42 PM
From:        John R. Andrews  , jandrews@uic.edu

                            GH Update for 11/15/96
                            By John R. Andrews, UIC

Today was the long awaited [by whom, you ask] 15th wedding anniversary of Luke
and Laura. Consequently, the show had more flashbacks than a Timothy Leary fan
club reunion.

Scene 1
Laura opens a package and finds a cigar band.
Flashback:  A baby-faced Laura and hairy Luke just having been married.
Scene 2
Mike and Luke discuss their waitress who is leaving to get married.
Flashback:  Luke hiring the underage then Laura Baldwin to wait on tables.
Scene 3
Laura storms into Luke's Place and feigns anger but secretly shows Luke the
cigar wedding band on her finger.  He gets the message, and they go outside to
reminisce and agree to meet later.
Fantasy Flashback: Luke and Laura dancing to the tune of "Think Of Laura."
Scene 4
Luke returns inside and pretends he's upset. Mike tries to be supportive, and
they discuss their current living arrangements. Luke is staying with Mike and
sleeping on the couch.
Flashback:  Luke sleeping in a bathtub and trying to get Laura to share a bed
so he can get some sleep.
Scene 5
Laura watches Lucky play with LouLou.
Flashback:  (1) Laura tells a bearded Luke she's pregnant with Lucky; (2) then
with LouLou; (3) they tell a very young looking Lucky about LouLou; (4) Laura
gives birth to LouLou while Luke tries to be comforting and supportive.
Scene 6
A dressed up Luke prepares to meet Laura.
Flashback:  L+L talk outside her door. She turns on her feminine charms.
Scene 7
Lucky chats with Luke and gives him an anniversary card.  Lucky remarks that
Luke looks good and that Laura looks like a "babe."  Luke tells him that she's
the babe-ish woman he ever met.
Flashback:  (1) Luke and a black wigged Laura play a scene out of "It Happened
One Night", i.e. hanging a blanket between them in an hotel room. She teases
him by disrobing knowing her silhouette shows on the blanket.  (2) Laura tells
a cooking Luke that she told Scotty she wanted a divorce and wanted to marry
Luke.
Scene 8
After Luke leaves the club, Laura calls looking for Lucky to baby sit.
Meanwhile, Luke's "pink dinosaur" refuses to start jeopardizing his date with
Laura.
Flashback:  Luke and Laura tool around curves in his punk Cadillac. When a cop
pulls them over, she acts like she's in heavy labor to get an escort to GH.
Scene 9
Lucky arrives home and agrees to baby sit. At the same time, Luke tells a
couple arriving at the club that they've won a free evening of dinner and
drinks. Privately he tells Mike to "get them hammered" until midnight so he can
"borrow" their car. [oh, I can hear it now.  "Luke is such a jerk. That's auto
theft. yadda yadda yadda." Jeez, give it a rest.]
Scene 10
Meanwhile, Laura is also having car trouble and pulls out her old trusty bag of
stuff.
Flashback:  (1) Laura refuses to jump out of a crashing plane without her bag,
so a desperate Luke tosses it out. She jumps after it.  (2) They get rescued by
a helicopter just before going over a waterfall.
Scene 11
Laura arrives at what looks like the catacombs, but Luke is not there yet,
however, he soon arrives and they embrace.
Flashback:  The BIG Wedding.
Scene 12
Lucky plays Timoria on his PC while holding LouLou.
Flashback:  Helena Cassidine curses Luke and Laura.
Scene 13
A male nurse gives some medicine to an unseen person sitting in an old chair.
Afterwards, he gives the person a cameo and says, "Now you can have this back."
An old woman's hand takes it and holds it tenderly.
Scene 14
L+L toast their 15 years of marriage.
Flashback:  Locked after hours in a department store, they dance dressed up to
the tune of "It Was Fascination."