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Arts and Entertainment | June 2015
Happy Endings She’s a novelist. He’s a screenwriter. Now they’re making a life together in Bellevue.
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By Megan Campbell
t’s the fifth century in Ireland. That’s as specific as the timing gets, because that’s how legends work. St. Brigit, having earned a place in the Catholic church after being born a slave, was popular among the poor and known for her compassion toward women. She did annoy St. Patrick, though. Her complaints about women forced to wait around for proposals that might never come irked him to such an extent he declared that every four years, on leap day, a woman could propose to a man. Now it’s Feb. 29, 2004 in Los Angeles, the night of the Academy Awards. Screenwriter Stephen Susco had just returned from Tokyo after wrapping up production drafts for the 2004 horror film The Grudge. He began researching “The Ladies’ Privilege” for another project and, offhand, shared the legend with his girlfriend Bridget Foley, a recent graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.
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