Natasha Richardson Reported Dead

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Time Out New York is reporting that actress Natasha Richardson, who was in a skiing accident yesterday, has died as a result of her injuries. Time Out says those close to the actress are being notified of the sad news. Time Out's site is apparently overloaded at the moment. Here is the report they published:

Time Out New York posted a story online with a "RIP" headline and the claim she is brain dead. They have no official confirmation, but at 12:39 they wrote RIP: Natasha Richardson (1963-2009) and that she is brain dead, although alive.

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. Shakespeare's words from Cymbeline cascade to mind: Fear no more the heat o' the sun Nor the furious winter's rages; Thou thy worldly task hast done Home art gone, and ta'en thy wages; Golden lads and girls all must As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.

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