Let this be a lesson to me: never wish you had something to post about.
From Time Out NY (I would link to it, but this story has crashed their website):
EXCLUSIVE: Time Out New York learns of actress’s untimely death. She will be greatly missed.
Last night it was reported that the actor Natasha Richardson had critically injured her head in a skiing accident at the Mont Tremblant resort outside of Montreal, Canada. Although public reports have not yet confirmed it, sources close to Richardson’s family and friends say they have already been told the awful news: She did not survived the accident.
This precipitate loss is a terrible one. Richardson was only 45 and had two adolescent sons; our thoughts go to them and to her husband, the actor Liam Neeson. The theater world, too, is bereft by her departure. Richardson has been the most verdant new branch of one of the great English theatrical family trees: the child of Vanessa Redgrave and the late Tony Richardson, the niece of Lynn Redgrave and Corin Redgrave, granddaughter of Michael Redgrave. She has pursued the family business with uncommon class and distinction. On Broadway-in Anna Christie, Closer, A Streetcar Named Desire and especially in her Tony-winning turn as Sally Bowles in Cabaret-her work has been elegant, smart and forceful. She will be missed.
EDIT: Story retracted, sort of. Natasha is NOT DEAD, but possibly might be BRAIN DEAD as reports Gawker, who has some sort of line to Time Out New York and their busted-ass site.
A Time Out spokesperson has retracted their original report that Richards had already succcumbed to her injuries. The site’s back up, but the link is still not loading. According to their P.R., they are amending their post to report that Richardson is, and this is a direct quote, “brain dead and not expected to survive.”
UPDATE AGAIN: Things keep looking up for Natasha Richardson and horrible for news outlets reporting otherwise. I guess me included, but I feel less guilty.
From TMZ:
The hospital tells TMZ Richardson is sedated and suffering from brain swelling — but, contrary to some reports, is not brain dead.
