<p>It was Emma Thompson in Love, Actually. The movie that Natasha was in with Liam Neeson was Nell. Natasha is best known for her extensive theatre work both in NY and London. She’s been nominated for numerous theatre awards and won the Tony for Best Actress for her performance in Cabaret.</p>
<p>She was the mom in the remake of the Parent Trap as well (back when Lindsay Lohan was an adorable tween). Such a sad accident…</p>
<p>Something very similar happened to my uncle a few years ago. Was an experienced skiier, was wearing a helmet, crashed and hit his head. Never lost consciousness and skiied down the rest of the mountain. That night in the hotel room, he complained to my aunt of a headache, walked towards the bathroom for some tylenol, threw a clot in his brain and died.</p>
<p>Sonny Bono died in a skiing accident a few years ago; don’t remember if he was wearing a helmet.</p>
<p>I saw her in The Handmaids Tale when I was pg.
( I had already read the book- so I was warned)</p>
<p>This is very sad news. :(</p>
<p>While ski accidents are common, one doesn’t tend to think of an accident on a beginner’s hill with an instructor will end in a serious injury of this nature. </p>
<p>We are a skiing family and live in a ski resort community. We know others who have died and some who have been paralyzed from ski accidents, including young people. My kids have skied from the moment they could walk and both grew up ski racing. My younger one gave up ski racing in middle school but my older one was a racer all the way through college and her racing career ended last winter as she is now in graduate school. I remember thinking at the last race of her career last year at how lucky she has been to have never had even the slightest injury in all these years and that is racing at a high speed and not what Natasha Richardson was doing. My daughter has also skied at Mount Tremblant as recently as a few months ago. </p>
<p>Of course, my younger daughter, being an actor herself, will be very sad to hear this news. Ms. Richardson would be someone she’d look up to. She is a Tony award winner. I also recall when my daughter was much younger, she adored The Parent Trap movie remake in which Richardson starred. </p>
<p>Richardson was a mother and I read was with her boys on this trip. </p>
<p>Very sad.</p>
<p>Someone was speculating she could have a ruptured aneurysm. It did not appear she hit her head.</p>
<p>I always loved her work…she played a smashing Zelda Fitzgerald…but I believe that was a made for TV series. That is where I first noticed her on screen. I am so sorry for her mother and husband and children…bless her! </p>
<p>she did a little appearance on Top Chef this season as well…</p>
<p>The longer it goes with no one saying anything, the worse it must be. If she’s not near death, how awful for her kids to maybe hear that. So I would think that if it’s not life threatening, they will say something soon.</p>
<p>I was thinking if it was a really bad sign to air-lift a brain injury. Change in pressure can’t be good.</p>
<p>I hope this isnt an offensive thing to say…if it is, then I apologize ahead of time. I see things like this awful accident in the news, and it just gets lumped in with all the other awful things happening in our world right now. I mean, how can skiing on a bunny slope with an expert skier be dangerous? I used to ski with my disabled son, just on the bunny slope. I skied behind him…I really thought it was a safe activity.</p>
<p>Its just like, this awful accident…the horrid plane crash in NY, the economy of course, the unemployment numbers…even Ron Silver passing away yesterday…am I being extra gloomy? or are things just feeling ultra sad lately?</p>
<p>I don’t know. Did any of us know her? Certainly, some of us valued her work, but this thread just seems sort of National Enquirer-ish, ya know?</p>
<p>It is a tragic accident and of course, papagena, we feel sad. More bad news. The grim reaper out of the blue…</p>
<p>I just think that we are hyper-sensitive to any news like this right now. All we’ve been bombarded with is the AIG mess, octomom mess, the economy…it would make anyone sad.</p>
<p>prayers to her and her family.</p>
<p>No, of course I didnt know her. I guess I wasn’t able to express my feeling of lots of things just seem sadder to me these days. Grim reaper? yes, for some of us…there are other bad things happening.</p>
<p>I don’t mean to make you think its a National Enquirer type of thread…cause its really not. Its an empathetic thread…and I personally think we are just reacting because of how many other sad things are going on in the news. This thread isn’t going the NE route. We are just legitimately sad to hear of yet one other sad situation effecting a family…that we happen to know because she is famous.</p>
<p>Thats all…no over exaggeration…just makes us sad…dont be offended by that</p>
<p>I agree, papengena. There does seem to be a lot of sad news these days, both in the media and in my life. Several long-term friends are having serious problem at the moment, ranging from cancer to a parent descending into dementia. This freak accident, to the relatively young mother of two young sons, seems like more sad news piled on top of everything else. I can’t help thinking of her sons, and of her mother, who had breast cancer fairly recently.</p>
<p>I started the thread not because I wanted to be like the Natioanl Enquirer, but because brain injuries hit home with me. I don’t have the exact statistics, but they happen around every 28 seconds or something like that. Most victims are young and male, but there are many people out there suffering from the afteraffects of head injury in all walks of life.</p>
<p>Many brain injured people look perfectly normal, but struggle with a whole array of problems on a daily basis that we can barely comprehend, from inability to remember simple things to balance problems. This is brain injury awareness month. Wear a helmet.</p>
<p>anothermom - how is your D’s friend doing? What is her prognosis (yea, I’m asking that despite the fact the doctors underestimated her will)?</p>
<p>Hard to believe that she didn’t have an accident with a tree. It seems that many of the fatal skiing accidents you read about have to do with colliding with an immovable object. Accident on the beginner hill? Wow…I really feel for the family.</p>
<p>I personally know several people who have either died or sustained significant brain damage skiing. But it is not something one thinks of as being a risk on a bunny slope during a lesson. Very sad.</p>
<p>On my first day of learning to ski in my late 20’s (no lessons), I must have fallen down 100 times on that bunny hill. The day after, I was incredibly sore all over. I can see how easy it would be to fall the wrong way and do some real damage.</p>
<p>^^ same here gladmom, but I was in my teens. No lesson for me, just older boys who dragged me to the regular hill saying that this is really the way to go.
I hit the bushes on my second or third attempt down the hill. Cut my ear, bruised the side of my head badly, I do believe I’ve suffered a concussion as I vividly remember seeing stars (yes, just like in cartoons). Never went to see a doctor as we were in a remote village somewhere in the middle of nowhere.
I recovered, but could have been much worst. Nobody wore helmets 20+ years ago…</p>