“It’s Nothing, Really!”
Posted on | March 18, 2009
I can only imagine those might have been the words spoken by Natasha Richardson.
At the point of this writing we’re still living in innuendo and speculation about her condition.
A simple bump on the head. That’s what’s been thrown around like that plastic bag in “American Beauty.” Casually falling like so many of us have done before and now, what, she’s dead?
Sorry, going to die.
Possibly, not possibly.
Needless to say the pictures of her Mother, kerchief’d with head down,1 are showing a family in turmoil.
I’ve fallen.
Banged my head.
What is it they call it?
“Walk and Die syndrome?”
How many times have you, yourself, banged into a wall, a squeaky clean patio door, the coffee table while you’re cleaning out the faded “Rolling Stone” from 1982?
Laughing it off as sheer stupidity and carelessness - and, if anyone was around, chuckling it up with them at your sheer clumsiness as your vision slowly returns.
There is so much tragedy in this world. People, much less famous and deemed insignificant, taken out in a single breath.
She’s famous, beautiful and heir to a legacy of talent. She gets recognized. That doesn’t diminish the loss. It also doesn’t make it more significant.
But it still makes it sad.
Maybe what’s drawing our attention to it isn’t necessarily the fact that she is/was famous but at the sheer, eye-blaring casualness of simply bumping your head.
My thoughts go out to her family. Husband, Sister, Mother, Sons, Friends.
We who just sat in theatres and movie houses feel your loss.
ADDENDUM:
In searching the ever sanctified “google.ca” for a picture I just came across an updated article. Natasha Richardson, aged 45, has succumbed to her injuries.
What a shame.
- the great Vanessa Redgrave [↩]
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March 29th, 2009 @ 7:45 pm
Broke my heart to say goodbye to my “Handmaiden”. Her family deserves our prayers during this difficult time.