The lights will go out on Broadway at 8:00pm for one minute in memory of Natasha Richardson.

Natasha Richardson and Liam Neeson were one of my all time favorite Hollywood couples. I briefly met Liam Neeson some eons ago and even though I never met Natasha I knew people who had worked for her and they said pretty much the same thing everybody is saying about her: that she was one of the most down to earth people you could ever meet. As a couple, they were not just nice, they really enjoyed being normal.

Yet what really impressed me of these two was that they really, truly seemed in love --even after all these years. I remember the "scandal" around them when they starred in Anna Christie. The photograph that was most circulated about these two was the one in which Liam is on his knees, holding on to a barely clothed Natasha as a drowning man would hold onto a rock in the middle of the ocean. It was touching, erotic and romantic all at the same time. A true Broadway love affair and romance.

Her death is such a tragedy. She died at 45 leaving behind two boys about the age of my kids. I can't imagine the pain and the anguish. What most breaks my heart is that she was known to be such a no nonsense person that her effort not to inconvenience others might had killed her.

It wasn't just that she had an accident skiing without a helmet. The worse thing is that she turned away an ambulance an EMT personnel because she insisted that she was fine.

Within the hour she was gone.

RIP Natasha Richardon.

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