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 LiLo Mourns 
 Parent Trap 
 Mom 

Lohan worked with Natasha Richardson 11 years ago

Mar 19, 09 10:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - Parent Trap co-star Lindsay Lohan is remembering on-screen mom Natasha Richardson fondly, reports USA Today. "She was a wonderful woman and actress and treated me like I was her own," the starlet said of their work on the 1998 remake. "I didn't see much of her over... More »

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Lindsay Lohan • celebrity • death • actor • Liam Neeson • ski accidents • remembrance • Natasha Richardson • Parent Trap

Ambulance Was Turned Away After Richardson Accident

When ambulance was called again, actress 'wasn't in good shape'

Mar 19, 09 8:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - Potentially life-saving paramedics were turned away before they could examine Natasha Richardson after the Canadian ski accident that claimed her life, reports the Globe and Mail. Ski patrollers had requested an ambulance after the actress stuck her head in a fall on a beginners slope at Mont Tremblant in Quebec,... More »

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Canada • skiing • actor • Liam Neeson • ambulance • ski accidents • Natasha Richardson • head trauma

SLIDESHOW

 Richardson 
 a Superb Artist 
 of Own Making 

Late actress commanded a presence that went far beyond mere inheritance

Mar 19, 09 7:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - Natasha Richardson had the finest theater pedigree possible, but her stage presence owed itself to far more than her acting genes, Lisa Schwarzbaum writes in Entertainment Weekly. Her upbringing in the theater—and those famous Redgrave cheekbones—were plainly visible, but the late actress had an aura of competence and... More »

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theater • Broadway • actor • Liam Neeson • actress • Natasha Richardson • Vanessa Redgrave

 'Walk and Die' 
 Syndrome 
 Likely Killed 
 Richardson 

Head injury from ski fall caused delayed bleeding in the brain

Mar 19, 09 6:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - The head injury Natasha Richardson sustained in a skiing accident produced what doctors call "walk and die" syndrome, a UCLA neurologist tells the Los Angeles Times. Patients in such cases at first seem fine, walking and talking normally, but they swiftly deteriorate due to delayed bleeding from an... More »

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celebrity • neurology • brain injuries • actor • traumatic brain injury • Liam Neeson • ski accidents • Natasha Richardson

 Richardson Dead at 45 


Mar 19, 09 12:12 AM CDT
(AP) - 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 yesterday at age 45 after suffering a head injury during a ski lesson. It was a sudden and horrifying loss for... More »

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actor • Liam Neeson • ski accidents • head injuries • actress • Natasha Richardson • Vanessa Redgrave

 Richardson Off Life Support 


Mar 18, 09 4:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Natasha Richardson's family has taken the actress off life support, the New York Post reports. Family members including husband Liam Neeson, her two children, and her mother, Vanessa Redgrave, were standing vigil by her hospital bedside. Richardson, 45, suffered a critical brain injury in a ski accident two days ago.... More »

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life support • actor • traumatic brain injury • Liam Neeson • ski accidents • actress • Natasha Richardson

Could Helmet Have Saved Richardson?

Celeb's ski accident renews debate on safety gear

Mar 18, 09 1:14 PM CDT
(Newser) - Natasha Richardson’s crippling accident while taking beginner's lessons has renewed the ski-helmet debate, the New York Times reports. Safety gear is more popular today—43% of Americans donned helmets last ski season, up from 25% 5 years prior—but still not required. Critics point out that fatalities haven’t... More »

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helmets • actor • traumatic brain injury • Liam Neeson • ski accidents • Natasha Richardson

 Ricci 
 Engaged 
 to Co-star 

Actress, comedian met on set

Mar 18, 09 9:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - Christina Ricci is engaged to co-star Owen Benjamin, People reports. She met the comedian on the set of their film All’s Faire in Love last year, and they’ve been dating publicly since October. The former child star has had her eye on settling down: In 2007 she told... More »

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celebrity • actor • Christina Ricci • movies • celebrity engagements

 Richardson 
 Family 
 Gathers 
 to Say  
 Goodbye 

Actress taken to New York hospital; will be taken off life support

Mar 18, 09 2:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - Family members have gathered at a New York hospital to say farewell to Natasha Richardson, reports the New York Daily News. The actress, on life support and believed to be brain dead after suffering a fall on a Canadian ski slope Monday, has been joined by husband Liam Neeson, the... More »

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actor • Liam Neeson • ski accidents • Natasha Richardson • Vanessa Redgrave

(Newser) - Actress Natasha Richardson is brain dead after a ski accident yesterday in Canada, sources tell the New York Post, and is being taken from the Montreal hospital where she was on life support to New York so loved ones, including mother Vanessa Redgrave, can say their goodbyes. Richardson, 45, fell... More »

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skiing • Montreal • actor • Liam Neeson • ski accidents • Natasha Richardson • Mont Tremblant • brain dead

 Richardson 
 Injured in 
 Ski Accident 

Actress in critical condition

Mar 17, 09 6:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - Natasha Richardson is in critical condition following a ski accident in Canada, reports Irish Central. The actress and wife of Liam Neeson suffered a traumatic brain injury and was admitted to a Montreal hospital. “Neeson left the Toronto set immediately to fly to Montreal upon news of his wife’... More »

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celebrity • Montreal • actor • traumatic brain injury • Liam Neeson • ski accidents • Natasha Richardson • Vanessa Redgrave

OBITUARY

 West Wing's 
 Ron Silver Dead at 62 

West Wing star became staunch Bush supporter

Mar 16, 09 5:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - Ron Silver, the award-winning actor who became an outspoken supporter of George W. Bush late in his career, died yesterday of esophageal cancer at age 62. As the Los Angeles Times writes, Silver won a Tony for his role in David Mamet's play Speed-the-Plow and won acclaim as campaign strategist... More »

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obituary • actor • esophageal cancer • The West Wing

(Newser) - Jamie Kennedy and Jennifer Love Hewitt are dating, despite previous denials, Us reports. “She’s my Bella,” Kennedy said in an odd Twilight reference. “I don’t want to bite her neck, but I want her to live.” The two were rumored together since Hewitt called... More »

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television • celebrity • dating • Jennifer Love Hewitt • actor • Twilight • Jamie Kennedy • Ghost Whisperer

 Swayze Fires Back 
 at 'Negative' 
 Tabloids 

Actors slams reports that he's losing cancer fight

Mar 12, 09 6:36 AM CDT
(Newser) - Patrick Swayze is sick of reading tabloid stories claiming he's losing his battle with pancreatic cancer, he tells Access Hollywood. The Beast star says that rather than being at death's door, he is responding well to a new course of chemotherapy, and he has plenty of positive things in his... More »

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tabloids • cancer treatment • pancreatic cancer • National Enquirer • actor • Patrick Swayze • The Beast

Joaquin Pounces on Heckler
at Rap 'Concert'

Another stunt?

Mar 12, 09 4:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Security guards hauled off neo-rapper Joaquin Phoenix early this morning after he leaped from the stage during a Miami Beach concert to confront a heckler, reports AP. The increasingly bizarre actor appeared in a disheveled suit to mutter mostly unintelligible lyrics after appearing four hours late to the concert. Suddenly... More »

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rapper • hoax • Joaquin Phoenix • Casey Affleck • Borat • actor

Watson 'Twitter-Jacked'
With Yale Hoax

'I'm not going to Yale,' says Brit actor

Mar 6, 09 10:32 AM CST
(Newser) - Harry Potter muse Emma Watson has turned positively witchy, trashing statements that she's headed to Yale, reports the Boston Globe. Turns out a Twitter note gushing "I got into Yale!" wasn't posted by Watson. In fact, she doesn't have a Twitter account, according to her website. Now fans... More »

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Harry Potter • Harvard • actor • Yale • Twitter • Emma Watson • tweet • Bill Maher Grid

(Newser) - Vince Vaughn is getting hitched. The 38-year-old actor, once linked with Jennifer Aniston, has gotten engaged to a 29-year-old real-estate agent from Calgary named Kyla Weber, the Montreal Gazette reports. The two reportedly met while Weber was vacationing in either Venice Beach or Italy. Weber's dad confirmed the engagement, though... More »

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Jennifer Aniston • Vince Vaughn • actor • celebrity engagements

(Newser) - Patrick Wilson has had many brushes with fame, but it’s fairly certain his role in the hotly anticipated Watchmen will finally make walking down the street a chore, New York reports. He’s done studio films before (remember The Alamo?), won praise for his role in Little Children, even... More »

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film • superhero • actor • movies • Watchmen • Patrick Wilson • fame

OPINION

 Can Mel Make a 
 Comeback? 

Gibson aims for rehabilitation, but Mad Max is 'gone'

Mar 2, 09 1:21 PM CST
(Newser) - Mel Gibson appears to be making an effort to revive a career stalled after his 2006 arrest and accompanying anti-Semitic tirade, but “it seems unlikely he can ever really come back,” writes Roger Friedman for Fox News. “Like Tom Cruise, Gibson has sent himself into a weird... More »

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Hollywood • film • sexism • image • film director • Mel Gibson • actor • anti-Semitism • comeback • movies • Roger Friedman

(Newser) - The producers of Speed-the-Plow haven't given up their legal pursuit of Jeremy Piven,Variety reports. They plan to seek independent arbitration, which could result in serious fines for the actor. A panel of actors and producers failed to reach consensus on a possible penalty last week, leading to the producers'... More »

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Broadway • actor • mercury poisoning • arbitration • Jeremy Piven • Speed the Plow

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