Great Big Beautiful Life

Cecil sends Alice a copy of the photo. She sees the younger, “hippie” version of Cecil and thinks something else looks familiar but can’t pinpoint what. She and Hayden aren’t seeing each other tonight as both have work to catch up on. She begins reviewing the recording from her most recent interview with Margaret.

After the Oscar party, Cosmo came to the Ives’s house to see Margaret. Laura greeted him and could tell they were in love. Margaret worried about what Laura thought about her being with Cosmo, though Laura was in love with Dr. David Ryan Atwood, a psychologist whose books she’d been reading but who Margaret called a “quack.” The next day, Cosmo took Margaret for a beach picnic, and they were intimate afterward. He asked her to marry him, but she said they barely knew each other. When he proposed again two weeks later, she said yes. They tried to keep their relationship secret, but the press was relentless. They married at the courthouse, and only Laura attended. The paparazzi followed them on their honeymoon to Italy. Cosmo, who didn’t come from money, hated the constant attention and wished he could protect Margaret from it.

When they returned from their honeymoon, the butler told them that Laura was in New Mexico with Dr.