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Blind Man’s Bluff by Sarah Stegall copyright 1995 by Sarah Stegall Surely it is no coincidence that right after the OJ Simpson “not guilty” verdict electrifies America, we get an episode of “Strange Luck” built around a racially charged trial, an Eastern Jewish defense lawyer, and a white supremacist cop.  There’s a fine line between being topical and being exploitative, and I am not sure but what Strange Luck has crossed it. Chance Harper is mistaken for a hitman and finds himself very briefly in possession of ten thousand dollars in cash–before a pickpocket steals it.  His attempts to enlist…

Flying Under the Radar by Sarah Stegall copyright 1995 by Sarah Stegall “A guy like me, it’s better I fly under the radar.”  Chance Harper sums up his own wary appreciation that his life is not like other men’s in Friday night’s episode, the third in the series “Strange Luck”.  He knows that there is something special about him, and now and then he lets us see the pain it causes him.  Like the one-legged man he chases throughout the episode, he is hobbled by a major lack in his life–his elusive missing brother.  But the brother himself, if he…