How romantic! A marriage made on the picket lines
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‘Desperate Housewives’ co-executive producer Alexandra Cunningham was working the picket lines outside Universal Studios this afternoon when she received a phone call. Her boyfriend of eight years, musician Stephen Thompson, was on the line wondering where she was and whether she expected ‘the same thing today as yesterday.’
‘It was questions he already knew the answers to,’ said Cunningham, who said she started to get mildly annoyed. ‘I was like, ‘I’ll just see you at home!’’
Ten minutes later, at the corner of Lankershim Boulevard and Main Street, Thompson was down on one knee, proposing to Cunningham -- who was still holding a fluorescent orange picket sign that said, ‘HONK.’
‘I got a little misty,’ Cunningham, 35, said. ‘I didn’t want to show any weakness because I’m the strike captain.’
Cunningham said yes, and the Writers Guild members cheered and took pictures.
‘He took the opportunity to turn a sad day into a nice one,’ she said. ‘I’ll never forget this.’ And though the strike continues to go on, Cunningham said she’s looking forward to a happy wedding with some new friends.
‘There’s a lot of people that I’ve met since the strike started that will be invited,’ she said. ‘I guess we’ll be telling our kids, ‘Mommy and Daddy got engaged on the picket line of ‘07!’’
--Andrea Chang