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**ROCKSTAR** · 03-17-2009, 06:42 PM

I'm so terribly sad about this situation! The rumors are insane. I pray she's well and is back with her family soon.

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Oh, booo! How does that even make sense?!

It seems people who went the first week didn't love it and the second week word of mouth kept people away.

Friday the 13th had a massive drop off as well. If people like what they see, they'll encourage friends/family to go, but the same goes when they don't like it and people don't risk it.

**jackiehydelover** · 03-17-2009, 07:25 PM

From what I'm reading about Natasha Richardson, it doesn't look good. I've been reading reports on either brain swelling or brain damage or even brain dead. I really hope that she's going to be okay.

cherrios · 03-17-2009, 11:08 PM

I really hope she recovers from this and lives to be with her family.

**Melika** · 03-17-2009, 11:24 PM

From IMDb.com:

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Richardson Flown To New York

17 March 2009 6:50 PM, PDT

Natasha Richardson has been transferred to a New York hospital to be closer to her family following a skiing accident which left her with a serious head injury.

The 45-year-old fell on the slopes while taking a ski lesson at Station Mont Tremblant near Montreal, on Monday.

She was taken to Montreal's Centre Hospitalier Laurentien, before being transferred to the nearby Hopital du Sacre-Coeur de Montreal with a "traumatic brain injury".

The actress' husband, Irish actor Liam Neeson, rushed to her side on Monday from the set of his film, Chloe, currently shooting in Toronto.

Now, the British star has been flown via private jet to New York, according to a representative from the Sacre-Coeur hospital.

Spokeswoman Josee-Michelle Simard says, "She was transferred at the request of the family."

It is believed Neeson requested the move so his wife would be closer to the pair's two young sons, Michael and Daniel, who are currently staying with relatives in the city.

A representative for the ski resort where Richardson was injured revealed on Tuesday that she seemed fine immediately after the fall, but later complained of feeling unwell and was taken into the care of medics.

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White Noise, Watchmen is one that has to be seen on the big screen to get the full effect, it won't be the same otherwise.

You can call me Melika.

I will get the full effect, I have a big screen LCD TV with a surround sound theatre system. I prefer movies at home for that reason. Thanks for the tip though!

**taovande** · 03-18-2009, 03:04 AM

It's one of the weirdest news stories. She was up and laughing and only complained of a headache---and now she's in critical condition. So sad...I really hope she is okay and all these reports are wrong.

**jackiehydelover** · 03-18-2009, 03:24 AM

They are supposed to release a statement on her condition sometime today. Hopefully it'll be good news.

cherrios · 03-18-2009, 09:41 AM

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They are supposed to release a statement on her condition sometime today. Hopefully it'll be good news.

Yeah I think one of the show interview a doctor and I think he said the fact that she was moving afterward is a good sign I think.

navami · 03-18-2009, 10:11 AM

Hope she pulls thur' . The news was shocking to say the least. We were just talking about Liam Neeson and his family after watching Taken...... which by the way is a very good movie !!

AdriaMichelle · 03-18-2009, 10:39 AM

What happened to Natasha Richardson is very tragic. I hope that she pulls through. This is so sad for her and for her family.

**jackiehydelover** · 03-18-2009, 02:47 PM

I just read that they pulled her off life support. It isn't confirmed yet but it's what an "inside source" has reported.

Xbel · 03-18-2009, 03:56 PM

Does that mean she doesn't need it anymore?

**Melika** · 03-18-2009, 04:03 PM

From IMDb.com:

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Gossip Guru Smith Reports Richardson's Life Support Machine Has Been Switched Off

18 March 2009 1:07 PM, PDT

Actress Natasha Richardson's life support machine has been switched off, according to veteran gossip columnist Liz Smith.

The 45-year-old Brit has been in critical condition at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York since Tuesday. She was flown there from Montreal, Canada after suffering a skiing accident on Monday.

Family members, including her husband Liam Neeson and mother Vanessa Redgrave, have maintained a vigil by her bedside, as various news reports surfaced, suggesting the actress was "brain dead," and being kept alive by a machine.

No official statement has been released, but respected writer Smith, who has close ties to the movie and theatre industries, is reporting Richardson's death on her new blog Wowowow.com.

The 86 year old writes, "Word is in at 1:30 pm Wednesday they have taken Natasha off of life support. This is not unexpected.

"Insiders felt yesterday, on learning they were flying Natasha in to Lenox Hill, that this meant her condition was hopeless and they (family members) were just finding a place to be together with her and to say good-bye.

"As one insider remarked: 'Nobody goes to Lenox Hill who is really sick; if she’d had a chance to live, they’d have found another great brain hospital!'"

Smith signs off by stating, "This is all just utterly horrible to write!"

**ROCKSTAR** · 03-18-2009, 04:52 PM

There are few words except how sad and tragic.

I pray for her family, it's one of those situations that come out of nowhere and really get you down. Oh my...

God bless her and family.

**~Lisa~** · 03-18-2009, 05:05 PM

yeah they confirmed she has died

**Melika** · 03-18-2009, 05:57 PM

This is so upsetting.

From MSNBC

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Actress Natasha Richardson has died
Husband Liam Neeson, sons ‘shocked and devastated’ by loss

MONTREAL - Natasha Richardson, a gifted and precocious heiress to acting royalty whose career highlights included the film “Patty Hearst” and a Tony-winning performance in a stage revival of “Cabaret,” died Wednesday at age 45 after suffering a head injury from a skiing accident.

Alan Nierob, the Los Angeles-based publicist for Richardson’s husband Liam Neeson, confirmed her death in a written statement.

“Liam Neeson, his sons, and the entire family are shocked and devastated by the tragic death of their beloved Natasha,” the statement said. “They are profoundly grateful for the support, love and prayers of everyone, and ask for privacy during this very difficult time.”

The statement did not give details on the cause of death for Richardson, who suffered a head injury when she fell on a beginner’s trail during a private ski lesson at the luxury Mont Tremblant ski resort in Quebec. She was hospitalized Tuesday in Montreal and later flown to a hospital in New York City.

Family members had been seen coming and going from the New York hospital where Richardson was reportedly taken.

Vanessa Redgrave, Richardson’s mother, arrived in a car with darkened windows and was taken through a garage when she arrived at the Lenox Hill Hospital on Manhattan’s Upper East Side at around 5 p.m. Wednesday. An hour earlier, Richardson’s sister, Joely, arrived alone and was swarmed by the media as she entered through the back of the hospital.

As reporters and photographers waited outside the hospital for word on Richardson’s condition, some passers-by stopped and expressed their sorrow over the turn of events.

One passer-by, Adrienne Cleere, said she was going to light a candle for the actress at a Roman Catholic church near the hospital.

“Everyone should pray for their two sons,” she said.

A reporter from the Toronto Star reported seeing a distraught Neeson crouched inside the back of an ambulance Tuesday at Montreal’s Sacre-Coeur hospital as Richardson, wrapped in blankets and with tubes covering her face, was loaded inside. Neeson had immediately left the Toronto set of his upcoming movie, “Chloe,” to be by her side in Montreal, a publicist for the film said.

Later that evening, a somber looking Vanessa Redgrave was seen in photographs walking into Lenox Hill. Two boys, identified in photos as Richardson's sons, Micheal Richard Antonio Neeson and Daniel Jack Neeson, and a young woman identified as niece Daisy Bevan were seen leaving the hospital early Wednesday.

Richardson is the elder daughter of Oscar-winning Redgrave and the late director Tony Richardson. She fell during a private lesson Monday at the famed Mont Tremblant ski resort.

A statement from the Mont Tremblant resort said Richardson fell on a beginners trail and later reported not feeling well.

“She did not show any visible sign of injury but the ski patrol followed strict procedures and brought her back to the bottom of the slope and insisted she should see a doctor,” said the statement from the resort, about 80 miles northwest of Montreal.

The ski resort said the instructor and a member of the ski patrol accompanied Richardson to her hotel, where they again recommended she be seen by a doctor. Mont Tremblant spokeswoman Catherine Lacasse said Richardson said she seemed fine at first.

“An hour later she said she didn’t feel well. She had a headache, so we sent her to the hospital,” Lacasse said. “There were no signs of impact and no blood, nothing.”

Richardson’s films include “Gothic,” “A Month in the Country,” “Nell” (in which she appeared with her future husband), “The Parent Trap” and “Maid in Manhattan.”

Trained at London’s Central School of Speech and Drama, Richardson has had extensive stage experience in the West End and Broadway. She won a Tony in 1998 for playing Sally Bowles in a revival of “Cabaret.”

In January, Richardson and her mother played the roles of mother and daughter in a one-night benefit concert version of “A Little Night Music,” the Stephen Sondheim-Hugh Wheeler musical, at Studio 54 in New York.

She married Neeson in 1994; their sons are 13 and 12.