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General Hospital Update for Thursday, 23-Mar-2006

Just another Thursday in Port Chuckles, the happiest place on earth--and what's an early Spring day without having a big bash to look forward to, right?
Everyone's talking about tonight's reopening of the Haunted Star, the floating casino that's Luke's latest business venture. It's opening its doors with a typical Port Charles gala featuring the whole cast. We know the drill, right? But it seems like the only people who aren't jumping for joy are Tracy and Jax. Jax is not thrilled, because Luke has borrowed almost the entire staff of the Metro Court restaurant for the evening, courtesy of Carly, or so he says, and Tracy's ticked off because he charged the entire rennovation bill of 50 grand to her!
Poverty is starting to get to Dylan. After he goes to see Luke on the Star to ask for a job bartending (as if he's 21!), Luke comes up with a better offer: he'll pay him to keep Lulu busy, so she'll stay out of his love life! Dylan tells Lulu about the deal, and says he's actually considering it, because he's worried about Georgie working herself to the bone at Kelly's and (gasp!) getting her first B in school.
Speaking of Georgie, she goes to see Diego to tell him that everything's off and they can't be friends anymore. Right when she's giving him the brush-off speech, a car, driven by a hitman paid by Manny, drives straight into them. Diego pushes Georgie out of the way in time, but has hurt his ankle. Georgie insists on helping him, and takes him back to her room at Kelly's, where she whips out a first aid kit.
While this is going on, there's a knock at the door. As Diego hides in the closet, Lulu storms in and rips into Georgie. Seems she found the bag of Diego's letters that Georgie was hiding under the bed (of course she doesn't justify why she looked under there in the first place) and says that Dylan is convinced that you have a halo over your head and look what you're doing, blah blah. Dylan also walks in at this point, which is going to make it interesting for Diego to try and leave! (Remember, he's still in the closet...)
While we're on the subject of Diego, a new actor is playing his father Alcazar. It was nice to see Jay Pickett, formerly of Port Charles, in the role--but I still think of him as Frank!
Other action today included Carly, who's on her latest keep Sonny and Emily apart kick. Now she's trying to reel Sam into it--but Sam figures out that Carly's doing it because now she's sleeping with Jax!
Sonny and Emily are keeping up their lame charade of "they're not a couple" by each going to the Haunted Star dateless. Em tags along with Lucky and Elizabeth, while Sonny makes a grand entrance as the mob boss he is, being preceded by about three bodyguards on the Star.
Jax and Carly do go as a couple, but this is after Carly refused to wear the dress that Jax picked out for her. (I don't blame her--it was a nice number that made her look like a virgin!!)She shows up in red, looking like the Ho that she really is.....
As things end, Tracy is on the Star as Luke's hostess and finally admits that she's really having fun after all. One can only hope that sparks do fly on Friday!