http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/r/vanessa_redgrave/index.html
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Chester Higgins Jr./The New York Times

Updated: March 19, 2009
Vanessa Redgrave remains one of this era’s more intriguing figures. Daughter of the actors Sir Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson, sister of Lynn and Corin Redgrave and mother of Joely Richardson and the late Natasha Richardson, she was once hailed as “the greatest actress of the English-speaking theater” by Tennessee Williams.
Others have praised an originality and raw truth of her performances, whether she is portraying the hump-backed 17th-century Ursuline nun of smoldering, frustrated hungers in Ken Russell’s film “The Devils,” the insecure wife of a Southern bigot in Tennessee William’s “Orpheus Descending” or the celebrated creator of modern dance, Isadora Duncan, shattered by age and sorrow. Writing in The New York Times, David Richards described her performance as Vita Sackville-West in “Vita and Virginia” as a “vivifying force of nature.”
Michael Redgrave passed on to his children a legacy of social activism as well. In between racking up awards and nominations in the 1960s for such movies as '‘Morgan!’' and '‘The Loves of Isadora,” she grabbed headlines for protesting the war in Vietnam and sounding calls for nuclear disarmament.
As much as she has been praised for her acting, Ms. Redgrave has been scorned for her radical politics. She has run for Parliament several times on the Trotskyist Workers’ Revolutionary Party, never gathering more than a few hundred votes.
In 1977, she sold both her houses to finance a documentary about the Palestine Liberation Organization in Lebanon, which showed her dancing with a Kalashnikov rifle. Later, after a successful lawsuit against the Boston Symphony Orchestra for canceling an engagement, in what she said was blacklisting for her political activities, she sought a cultural boycott that would have banned British actors from performing in the Jewish state or having their work shown there.
In 2007, Ms. Redgrave starred on Broadway in a one-woman play based on Joan Didion’s autobiographical book, “The Year of Magical Thinking.” In an article for The New York Times Magazine, Ms. Didion wrote, “Vanessa Redgrave is not playing me. Vanessa Redgrave is playing a character who, for the sake of clarity, is called Joan Didion. At points before this character appears onstage, she loses first her husband and then her daughter. Such experiences of loss may not be universal, but neither are they uncommon.”

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/item_GCJDJyjiBPnoXPOkTu1x8L
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Between noon and 1 p.m., Richardson sustained what appeared to be a trivial head injury while skiing at Mt. Tremblant in Quebec. Within minutes, she was offered medical assistance but declined to be seen by paramedics.
But this delay is common in the early stages of epidural hematoma when patients have few symptoms -- and there is reason to believe her case wasn't beyond hope at that point.
About three hours after the accident, the actress was taken to Centre Hospitalier Laurentien, in Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, 25 miles from the resort. Hospital spokesman Alain Paquette said she was conscious upon reaching the hospital about 4 p.m.

http://blog.healia.com/00331/celebrities-who-have-died-while-skiing-include-natasha-richardson-sonny-bono-and-michael-kenne

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March 19th, 2009

Celebrities Who Have Died While Skiing Include Natasha Richardson, Sonny Bono and Michael Kennedy

Health News posted 2 years ago by The Healia Team

The untimely death of actress Natasha Richardson from head trauma sustained in a fall while skiing brings to mind the tragic skiing deaths of other celebrities. In January 1998, Sonny Bono died of injuries after hitting a tree while skiing in Nevada and Michael Kennedy, one of son Robert F. Kennedy sons, also died while skiing in Aspen, Colorado. Neither of these men nor Richardson had been wearing a helmet.



http://www.esquire.com/features/liam-neeson-0311
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Just two days before that, Liam Neeson called from the Caribbean, at the end of a holiday. "I'm remembering some things I said," he told me. The phone signal was breaking up. It sounded to me like he was speaking on a satellite phone; I pictured him crouched in the body of a small plane. I scratched a note — plane? — as we spoke. "I don't know if you've written the piece yet," he said. "I don't know if you'll even remember what I'm worried about."

Neeson was concerned that we had discussed the politics of his native Northern Ireland. The Troubles. "I always forget," he told me, "that I can still make it hard for my family there by saying something stupid in the press." Then he asked to reword one point — to change one word. I told him that I didn't think the IRA would receive mention in the piece. "I still have to be careful," he said, before the phone crackled loud enough that I had to pull it away from my ear. "I have to make it my job to be careful with my family."

http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/story/fbi-agent-sonny-bono-was-clubbed-to-death_1064548
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 He says, "It's nonsense for anyone to now try to suggest that Bono died after crashing into a tree. There's zero evidence in this autopsy report... to show such an accident happened. Instead, there's powerful proof he (Bono) was assassinated. "This was an evil plot that was carried out to almost perfection by ruthless assassins." Gunderson tells the Globe Bono, an experienced skiier, was ambushed on the slopes by hired hitmen, who beat him to death and then staged a tree collision.

http://elvispelvis.com/bono.htm
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The sheriff said Bono died of massive head injuries. There was no evidence of drug or alcohol use, he said.
          Bono's death came less than a week after Michael Kennedy, the 39-year-old son of Robert F. Kennedy, was killed when he hit a tree while playing football on a ski slope in Aspen, Colo. Michael Kennedy's uncle, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., said his family was "heartbroken" at Bono's death.