LUKE AND LAURA TIE KNOT AGAIN

ANTHONY GEARY AND GENIE FRANCIS
It's been an eventful 25 years for Laura Spencer ( Genie Francis) since marrying Luke (Anthony Geary) in a fairy-tale wedding seen on television by 30 million people. She died, and was brought back to life. She killed her stepfather. She gave birth to a son by an adulterous affair, and now Nikolas is a single dad after the baby's mother died of a virus. Her other son, Lucky, is addicted to painkillers. Her daughter, Lulu, recently aborted a child after being impregnated by a stepbrother. Oh, and Spencer spent the last four years in a catatonic state waking up just in time to marry Luke again this Thursday on "General Hospital," 25 years to the day after their first wedding. This is a soap opera, after all. Nothing is easy, including ABC's attempt to relive the show's glory days, which has a bittersweet feel because of the actors' conflicted feelings and the slow decline of daytime drama as an institution. There had never been a more influential soap opera moment than Luke and Laura's wedding. There never will be again.