Natasha Richardson

Ann22 · 19-03-2009 10:08am #1

Natasha Richardson has died. Very sad, RIP. Just watched 'Maid in Manhatten last week.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7949125.stm

hblock21 · 19-03-2009 10:13am

Just read it on rte.ie. Very tragic

Basq · 19-03-2009 10:15am

As a big fan of films and TV, I just can't place Natasha Richardson.

I keep getting thinking of Joely Richardson when I hear her name.

Very sad all the same... RIP.

star-pants · 19-03-2009 10:19am

The poor woman, my heart goes out to her family and liam & her boys. RIP

Pyr0 · 19-03-2009 10:27am

I didn't think she'd die, judging by the accounts of the accident. Must have taken awhile for the damage to really hit in.

RIP

Ann22 · 19-03-2009 10:33am

It's scary how simply it happened...a few weeks ago my 8yr fell and banged the back of his head during his school morning break. I didn't get a phone call 'til after lunchtime. I told the school, if it ever happened again, I wanted to be called straight away.There was a lump on his head the size of a mandarin orange by the time I saw him. Thank God he was ok.

Cunny-Funt · 19-03-2009 10:37am

Really like more info on how she was actually killed. I mean what was the damage, as how can someone fall but be ok for awhile, then become critical later.

Blood clot or something maybe?

Sad news.

Makes me worried about going on ski trips now too.

biko · 19-03-2009 10:50am

RIP Natasha

Ann22 · 19-03-2009 10:51am

Cunny-Funt wrote: »

Really like more info on how she was actually killed. I mean what was the damage, as how can someone fall but be ok for awhile, then become critical later.

Blood clot or something maybe?

Sad news.

Makes me worried about going on ski trips now too.

If there's a little bleed, the blood can build up and put pressure on the brain. That mightn't show for a while. When you go to a casualty dept with a simple head injury, you're sent home with a list of things to watch out for over the next 24hrs, like confusion, vomiting, blurred vision etc.

Gone Drinking · 19-03-2009 10:53am

Its a very sad story, i only learned to ski last month and i didn't wear a helmet either. I'll be changing that next year i think.

This story reminds me of that Guard that died on the stag night after he'd had a fall, been brought home ok and stuck into bed only to be found dead the next morning.

Ann22 · 19-03-2009 11:01am

I wonder if she was wearing a hood or anything? My wee fella was wearing a fleece lined hat when he banged his head. I was wondering if he hadn't been wearing it, how bad it would've been, my hubbie said i was daft, that the hat would've been no protection.

Nodin · 19-03-2009 11:07am

Ann22 wrote: »

Natasha Richardson has died. Very sad, RIP. Just watched 'Maid in Manhatten last week.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7949125.stm

Yet Robert Gabriel Mugabe, Kim Jong-il, George Bush and Tony Blair soldier on....

thebigcheese22 · 19-03-2009 11:11am

Nodin wrote: »

Yet Robert Gabriel Mugabe, Kim Jong-il, George Bush and Tony Blair soldier on....

Aye, the world isn't fair

I feel really sorry for Liam Neeson and the kids, he seems like a genuinely nice fella

thelordofcheese · 19-03-2009 11:13am

Ann22 wrote: »

Natasha Richardson has died. Very sad, RIP. Just watched 'Maid in Manhatten last week.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7949125.stm

Yet another celebrity death due to white powder......

Ann22 · 19-03-2009 11:27am

basquille wrote: »

As a big fan of films and TV, I just can't place Natasha Richardson.

I keep getting thinking of Joely Richardson when I hear her name.

Very sad all the same... RIP.

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I remember her best as the posh blonde in Maid in Manahatten who's suit Jennifer Lopez borrowed and the mother in The Parent Trap (the version with Lindsay Lohan).

19-03-2009 11:39am

Very sad, RIP.

After this happening, the next time I go skiing I will make sure to have a helmet on.

Nodin · 19-03-2009 11:43am

thebigcheese22 wrote: »

Aye, the world isn't fair I feel really sorry for Liam Neeson and the kids, he seems like a genuinely nice fella

Happens to the rich, the famous, the ordinary. I remember one young one. Two days before a christmas they were going out, and her sister went into the next room to get something. They walked in two or three minutes after and found her dead on the floor of (what was found to be) a brain haemorrage. 20 years old. No drugs taken, no drink. Blameless life.

It reinforces my atheism, but the harshness of it is quite depressing.

LouOB · 19-03-2009 11:43am

Freaky ok - BUT in 1st Batman Begins Liam plays the baddy who's wife died

cue twilight zone track

tk123 · 19-03-2009 11:47am

LouOB wrote: »

Freaky ok - BUT in 1st Batman Begins Liam plays the baddy who's wife died

cue twilight zone track

The same in Love Actually

thebigcheese22 · 19-03-2009 11:54am

LouOB wrote: »

Freaky ok - BUT in 1st Batman Begins Liam plays the baddy who's wife died

cue twilight zone track

Too soon....

LouOB · 19-03-2009 11:57am

Just the Batman curse thang
Thats all

Didnt hear about the Love Acutually curse tho

thebigcheese22 · 19-03-2009 12:04pm

LouOB wrote: »

Just the Batman curse thang
Thats all

Didnt hear about the Love Acutually curse tho

Wow is there any other examples of the batman curse?? Never heard of it before

Dudess · 19-03-2009 12:07pm

basquille wrote: »

As a big fan of films and TV, I just can't place Natasha Richardson.

I keep getting thinking of Joely Richardson when I hear her name.

She was Joely's sis. And Vanessa Redgrave is their mam. Natasha wasn't in anything huge, but you'd recognise her face all right. She was in Nell with Jodie Foster years ago.

thebigcheese22 wrote: »

Too soon....

I don't think it was making light of it.

LouOB · 19-03-2009 12:20pm

thebigcheese22 wrote: »

Wow is there any other examples of the batman curse?? Never heard of it before

errr heath ledger
christan bale getting arrested just before premier
other stuffs
There was details in the news just before release - google

Aidric · 19-03-2009 12:24pm

I met Liam Neeson in a pub in New York once, a genuinely nice bloke. This is tragic news for him and his kids.
According to people from the Ski Resort it was a pretty inocuous fall so it was a rapid deterioration. RIP.

thebigcheese22 · 19-03-2009 12:25pm

LouOB wrote: »

errr heath ledger
christan bale getting arrested just before premier
other stuffs
There was details in the news just before release - google

Fair enough. Tho I don't think Christian Bale getting arrested has anything to do with Batman, its just coz hes a very angry individual!

stovelid · 19-03-2009 12:28pm

Can't recall ever seeing her in anything, but I'm a film illiterate.

Feel sorry for her two boys - desperate age for young lads to lose their ma.

me-skywalker · 19-03-2009 12:35pm

Its a very tragic story shows how fragile life really is... feel for Liam that he's had a loved one Taken from him...

thebigcheese22 · 19-03-2009 12:38pm

me-skywalker wrote: »

Its a very tragic story shows how fragile life really is... feel for Liam that he's had a loved one Taken from him...

*coughs*............. followed by *tumbleweed*

Loco · 19-03-2009 12:43pm

RIP

I was knocked out after a bad fall snowboarding a couple of years ago (which i don't even remember) I always wear a helmet now. Her fall was only on a nursery slope and looked what happened

JP Liz · 19-03-2009 12:46pm

RIP

annie.t · 19-03-2009 1:10pm

Jaysus that's scary
I liked her

RIP

BLITZ_Molloy · 19-03-2009 1:14pm

Statistically speaking skiing is a pretty safe sport, but I'd recommend wearing a helmet anyway. Ten years ago I split my head open and had to have 15 stitches. The skiis came off and hit me across the head. There was blood everywhere. Scared the crap out of me.

Poor Natasha, and Liam. They've always seemed like really nice people, not to mention fantastic actors so it's a shame for this kind of thing to happen.

Calibos · 19-03-2009 1:22pm

Jaysus! Had a few falls myself in Livigno this year but nothing where I banged my head. But there was one time about at the end of my first day of my first ski holiday in Andorra in the 90's where a lost it on ice on a fast blue run and slid head and wrist first into a partially buried fence. No helmet and I was dazed for a few minutes. Head cleared after a while but my wrist was very sore. A few bevvys that night and I woke up the next dsay fearing the worst re. my wrist but in fact the pain was totally gone. Enjoyed the rest of the holiday. Scary to think, what might have been though after hearing this!!

tech77 · 19-03-2009 3:45pm

Ann22 wrote: »

If there's a little bleed, the blood can build up and put pressure on the brain. That mightn't show for a while. When you go to a casualty dept with a simple head injury, you're sent home with a list of things to watch out for over the next 24hrs, like confusion, vomiting, blurred vision etc.

Yeah sounded like a subdural haemorrhage to me as well when i heard it first.
A bleed from a vein (as opposed to an artery) is more insidious, building up slowly and putting pressure on the brain.
Very sad.
RIP.

niceirishfella · 19-03-2009 3:53pm

Sad News. Liam Neeson is one of Ireland finest and his wife (may she RIP) was talented and truely beautiful. My heart feels for them.

bronte · 19-03-2009 5:38pm

That's so sad, She was a lovely actress..majorly under rated

AlmightyCushion · 19-03-2009 5:43pm

Only really seen her in maid in manhatten (my sister rented it and the other tv was broken I swear

). My thoughts go out to her family.

dr.bollocko · 19-03-2009 5:49pm

Didn't Sunny Bono die in a similar fashion?

Basq · 19-03-2009 5:52pm

dr.sucks.bollocko wrote: »

Didn't Sunny Bono die in a similar fashion?

He died ski-ing alright:

Wikipedia wrote:

Death

Sonny Bono's headstone at Desert Memorial Park in Cathedral City, California. The epitaph reads: "And The Beat Goes On."

On January 5, 1998, Bono died of injuries after striking a tree while skiing on the Nevada side of the Heavenly Ski Resort near South Lake Tahoe, California.[11]

Bono's death came just days after Michael Kennedy, a son of Robert F. Kennedy, died in a similar skiing accident in Aspen, Colorado. Bono's widow, Mary, was elected to fill the remainder of the Congressional term. Over 10 years after his death, she continues to champion many of Sonny's causes, including the ongoing fight to save the Salton Sea.

After Sonny's death, Mary told an interviewer from TV Guide that Sonny was addicted to and seriously abusing prescription drugs, mainly Vicodin and Valium. Even though Mary claimed that Sonny's drug use caused the accident, the autopsy showed no narcotics and only a very small amount of Valium, not enough to cause impairment according to the Washoe County Coroner's report.

After being asked by Mary Bono, Sonny's ex-wife, Cher, gave a eulogy at Bono's funeral. His final resting place is Desert Memorial Park in Cathedral City, California. The epitaph on Bono's headstone reads: "And The Beat Goes On."[12]

Source

IvyTheTerrible · 19-03-2009 6:20pm

This is very sad.

My mum always used to tell me and my siblings to be careful when we were play fighting to be careful not to bang our heads as you could die after one misplaced hit...I never believed her...

Capt'n Midnight · 19-03-2009 6:53pm

basquille wrote: »

He died ski-ing alright:

After Sonny's death, Mary told an interviewer from TV Guide that Sonny was addicted to and seriously abusing prescription drugs, mainly Vicodin and Valium. Even though Mary claimed that Sonny's drug use caused the accident, the autopsy showed no narcotics and only a very small amount of Valium, not enough to cause impairment according to the Washoe County Coroner's report.

After he was conveniently out of the way she also said
"Actually, Sonny wanted the term of copyright protection to last forever." :mad:

Cuddlesworth · 19-03-2009 7:20pm

Ann22 wrote: »

It's scary how simply it happened...a few weeks ago my 8yr fell and banged the back of his head during his school morning break. I didn't get a phone call 'til after lunchtime. I told the school, if it ever happened again, I wanted to be called straight away.There was a lump on his head the size of a mandarin orange by the time I saw him. Thank God he was ok.

If I was the Principle of the school I would get that kid out as soon as possible with a mother like you.

seanybiker · 19-03-2009 7:22pm

basquille wrote: »

As a big fan of films and TV, I just can't place Natasha Richardson.

Very sad all the same... RIP.

Same here. Had to check imdb then she looked familiar. Poor woman

Honey-ec · 19-03-2009 7:23pm

It's very bizarre. I wouldn't be at all surprised if there was an underlying problem that was either triggered by the fall or possibly caused the fall itself. The autopsy will tell.

Either way, it's so sad for her family.

Hazys · 19-03-2009 7:23pm

Am i the only person going 'Who?'

Disease Ridden · 19-03-2009 7:44pm

Hazys wrote: »

Am i the only person going 'Who?'

Nope. I'd never heard of her before she died.

Also, she lived a priveleged life while she was here, getting to do what she enjoyed. I'd feel a lot sorrier for if she was an average person with a few kids struggling to make ends meet and banged her head in a fall.
We are all going to die, a lot of us more painfuly than what she endured in fairness. I really dont buy into this whole concept of lumping praise onto a famous person when they die.

irish_bob · 19-03-2009 11:42pm

she had that classy british thing about her , her mother vannessa redgrave is still hot and shes well in her 70,s , she was a communist in the 60,s

ownknee · 19-03-2009 11:48pm

Anyone else find it a bit disgusting the way the media are taking photos of the family entering & leaving the hospital?
I just don't think it's appropriate, regardless of who or what she is.
Personally if it was my mother/ sister/ daughter, I'd appreciate a bit of privacy.
I just don't understand why publishing pictures of her grieving family is relevant. It's a private moment for them & should be left that way.
Anyone agree???

Purple Gorilla · 19-03-2009 11:51pm

Cunny-Funt wrote: »

Really like more info on how she was actually killed. I mean what was the damage, as how can someone fall but be ok for awhile, then become critical later.

Blood clot or something maybe?

Sad news.

Makes me worried about going on ski trips now too.

I skimmed so sorry if it's been explained already, it's called Talk and Die Syndrome. She hit her head and started to bleed internally She feltfine until the bleeding put pressure on her brain. That's when she felt the headache and then by that time it was too late

Latchy · 20-03-2009 12:00am

Disease Ridden wrote: »

Nope. I'd never heard of her before she died.

Also, she lived a priveleged life while she was here, getting to do what she enjoyed. I'd feel a lot sorrier for if she was an average person with a few kids struggling to make ends meet and banged her head in a fall.
We are all going to die, a lot of us more painfuly than what she endured in fairness. I really dont buy into this whole concept of lumping praise onto a famous person when they die.

She was a mother ,somebodys sister, daughter,she had friends ,she had a husband ,she had a life and yes ,she was famous .

RIP

Natasha Richardson

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