Natasha Richardson's Casket Moved From Wake Site
Posted on Mar 21, 2009 @ 03:23PM - Add a comment
A day after a tear-filled wake with friends and family, Natasha Richardson’s casket has been moved from the American Irish Historical Society in Manhattan.
Mike Nichols, Ralph Fiennes, Matthew Broderick and Uma Thurman were some of the celebrities who paid their respects to the British actress’ family at a viewing on Friday. Natasha’s husband, Irish actor Liam Neeson, and the couple's two sons, aged 12 and 13, were joined by Richardson's mother, Vanessa Redgrave, and sister, Joely Richardson in receiving well wishers.
Richardson, 45, died last Wednesday in a Manhattan hospital from an epidural hematoma, after a freak skiing accident caused her to bump her head. The injury did not seem serious at first, and the actress initially refused treatment.
"It's been a very, very sad few days and I think it will stay that way for a good while," Broderick said yesterday. Theatres in London's West End dimmed their lights Friday to mark Natasha’s death. Theaters on Broadway in New York City paid the same tribute Thursday night. Richardson won a Tony Award in 1999 for her stage role in Cabaret.
Kenneth Cole: Richardson Was Anything But Reckless
Posted on Mar 20, 2009 @ 11:28AM - Add a comment
Fashion designer Kenneth Cole, a good friend of late actress Natasha Richardson, said her death in a skiing mishap is particularly shocking because Richardson was always careful and deliberate with her words and actions.
"She wasn't a reckless person," he told the Early Show on CBS. "She was very thoughtful and capitulating and careful."
Cole, noticeably grieving and shaken, said Richardson was always dedicated to amFAR, an AIDS charity. Her father, director Tony Richardson, died of AIDS-related illness in 1991.
Doc: Richardson Could Have Been Saved
Posted on Mar 19, 2009 @ 09:00PM - Add a comment
UPDATE: The lights of New York's Broadway theaters were dimmed Thursday evening in honor of the actress.
Natasha Richardson’s body has been taken from the Medical Examiner’s office to the Greenwich Village Funeral Home on Bleeker Street. Funeral plans are being finalized. RadarOnline.com has learned exclusively that the actress was pronounced dead at 7:25 pm Wednedsay.
Tragically, Richardson’s life could have been saved if doctors had reached her quickly, a top neurologist told RadarOnline.com. An autopsy showed Natasha died from blunt force trauma to the head.
Autopsy Shows Richardson Died From Blunt Impact To Head
Posted on Mar 19, 2009 @ 02:12PM - Add a comment
The NYC Medical Examiner’s office has finished its autopsy on Natasha Richardson and concluded she died of “blunt impact to head.” That was the first official statement at 2:06 PM.
REPORT: Richardson Was Vomiting and Confused
Posted on Mar 19, 2009 @ 01:43PM - Add a comment
Natasha Richardson said she seemed fine after her fall on Monday, but as RadarOnline.com has learned, her condition quickly accelerated once she returned to her room at Hotel La Quintessence.
Within an hour of her return, local reports say the actress was disoriented, confused, and vomiting. Quickly, the ski resort administration called for a second ambulance which whisked her away to a nearby hospital. (An original ambulance responded ten minutes after her fall, but was sent away since “they never saw the patient so they turned around.”)
Though it was Richardson’s call to not immediately go to the hospital despite urging from those who had responded to the scene, this new information questions whether or not the actress was in the right state to make such a decision. Her autopsy is expected to be released sometime on Thursday.
(Photo credit: Wenn)
Jodie Foster Remembers Richardson
Posted on Mar 19, 2009 @ 12:46PM - Add a comment
Jodie Foster was there at the very beginning, filming Nell with Natasha Richardson and Liam Neeson before the couple tied the knot. As preparations to lay Richardson to rest are being worked out, Foster remembers her friend "Tasha."
"Natasha was brilliant, beautiful, funny, talented beyond measure, as emotionally raw as she was razor sharp." Foster says. "Tasha loved fiercely and that love continues in all of us who knew her."
"May Liam, her beautiful boys and her loving family hold her close as they move through this tragic moment."
(Photo Credit: Wenn)
Richardson: Autopsy Pending As Experts Speculate On Cause Of Death
Posted on Mar 19, 2009 @ 11:37AM - Add a comment
Officials from the New York Medical Examiner's Office told RadarOnline.com they will be looking at Natasha Richardson's body Thursday to determine what exactly killed the actress after a skiing accident Monday.
Colleagues Remember Natasha Richardson
The actress, 45, complained she didn't feel well about an hour after she fell; she was treated at two hospitals in Montreal and New York, respectively, before she died Wednesday.
Richardson might have been a victim of a rare condition known as "talk and die syndrome," an expert told Newsday. It occurs when people suffer a seemingly harmless blow to the skull, show no ill effects, only to lapse into a coma shortly thereafter. "It is not a very common occurrence," Dr. Steven Flanagan, medical director of the NYU's Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine, told Newsday. "A patient comes into the emergency room talking and then rapidly deteriorates" while blood slowly pools, putting pressure on brain tissue. According to a 2007 review in the Journal of Clinical Neuroscience, "talk and die" patients composed 2.6 percent of head injury victims who died.
Natasha Richardson: Celebrating Her Work
Posted on Mar 19, 2009 @ 11:05AM - Add a comment
Natasha Richardson's body of work illustrates a talent whose versatility transcended the screen and stage.
She received a Tony award in 1988 for her performance in Cabaret; here are a few clips from those productions:
Richardson sings Maybe This Time in 1998 Cabaret reunion:
Richardson sings Perfectly Marvelous
Richardson gained plenty of recognition as well in her appearances in 1998's The Parent Trap, which helped introduce an 11-year Lindsay Lohan.
Colleagues Remember Natasha Richardson
Posted on Mar 19, 2009 @ 10:20AM - Add a comment
Within hours of the news of actress Natasha Richardson's death as result of head injuries during a skiing lesson, kind words from colleagues and friends poured in from around the show business world.
"She was a little girl but already beautiful and graceful," Jane Fonda, who co-starred with Richardson's mother Vanessa Redgrave in 1977's Julia, wrote of meeting the actress, then 14, in her blog. "It didn't surprise me that she became such a talented actor. It is hard to even imagine what it must be like for her family. My heart is heavy."
Stage/screen director Sam Mendes, whose Broadway Cabaret production garnered Richardson a Tony award in 1988, said the actress sapped up the best talents of Redgrave and her father, director Tony Richardson.
"Natasha combined the best of Redgrave and Richardson: the enormous depth and emotional force of a great actor on the one hand, and the intelligence and objectivity of a great director on the other," the director said. "She was one of a kind, a magnificent actress... it defies belief that this gifted, brave, tenacious, wonderful woman is gone."
Natasha Richardson's Family After Her Death
Posted on Mar 19, 2009 @ 06:00AM - Add a comment
Liam Neeson returns home to his New York apartment Wednesday night after the death of his wife Natasha Richardson. Richardson's mother Vanessa Redgrave arrived at the apartment separately.
See video of their arrival.
