As luck would have it

With Bernice, your New York correspondent, out somewhere on the streets searching for a man . . . erh, story, it falls to me to keep the home fires burning. Why do I feel like Cinderella? Mind you, the dear old lady gave broad hints about (read "told me") what she wanted, so my task was an easy one. Unlike her search for a ma . . . erh, story.

His not-so-Lucky day on 'GH'

New York Daily News

Greg Vaughan, as Lucky, is cast as a hero for a while.

Lucky is hailed as a hero for killing Manny next week on "General Hospital," but it's actually Jason who does the deed.

"It's amazing what drugs can do to your brain," says Greg Vaughan, who plays addicted cop Lucky Spencer. "Lucky screws up and here comes Jason. So, Lucky is trying to prove he has what it takes to be a man."

In other words, Lucky's in the right place at the right time, but he fails. He comes out onto the hospital roof and finds Manny and Jason struggling, then shoots at Manny, but Jason pushes the criminal off the roof to his death.

"Lucky feels he could have hit him because there is a brief separation between Manny and Jason when Lucky fires," explains Vaughan. "In his mind, he believes he did shoot him - not knowing there could have been an extra push from Jason that makes Manny fall."

Lucky takes credit for killing Manny, unaware that a surveillance camera captured the gun battle. "He's trying to get validation from his wife," says Vaughan. "He feels like this is his moment. All his hard work getting back on the force has come full circle. Manny - this killer, this troublemaker - helps revamp and save his career. He makes him the hero."

Not for long. Elizabeth knows Jason offed the madman, and by the end of the week, District Attorney Alexis Davis will know it, too. "Eventually, he's going to have to come out and say he didn't do it," says Vaughan. "But for now, he's playing pretend."

He's also playing with fire, kissing the police commissioner's teenage daughter, Maxie, after a press conference congratulating him. "It's exciting to play him as something other than the clean-cut guy next-door," says Vaughan.

More like a drug-addicted credit-grabber. Says Vaughan in defense of his character: "Hey, Lucky's just a guy carrying a badge who always ends up in the hospital."

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