Natasha Richarson RIP

Strangely, I was just thinking about Natasha Richardson just the other day. I was thinking of actors and actresses that just don't get enough work. It started with a conversation with my husband about Mickey Rourke's "comeback" and his speech about Eric Roberts being overlooked or "punished" as he said.

I was thinking of other people that are underused by Hollywood - who overuses many undeserving and underworks those that have true talent - Natasha Richardson popped in my head as an actress who we just don't see enough of on the big screen, nary a week later I heard her name on the news and thought "Oh great, she is finally going to be in some new movie".

Sadly, that was not to be the case, not in that instance and apparently not ever again.

Natasha Richardson was one of those talents that Hollywood uses in all kinds of awful ways because they.... well because very few good movies come out of Hollywood, they turn most art into muck, and their mucky pimp hand has creeped so far into independent movies - or fake independent movie, that the phrase Indie movies has lost 90% of it's credibility.

I have not seen all of Natasha Richardson's films, but I have seen some good ones and some bad. While she was great in 'Widow's Peak', which though star studded was fairly mediocre, I have not seen 'Maid in Manhattan' nor 'The Parent Trap', and still don't plan to. But there is a masterpiece in which she starred that I must recommend, it is the often overlooked 'A Handmaid's Tale'.

'A Handmaid's Tale' is a sci-fi thriller in which the rich and powerful have lost the ability to reproduce so they nab the still fertile poor ladies and force them to act as handmaids and reproduce for them. It is a great movie, and Miss Richardson's performance is absolutely fantastic!

I am sorry to hear that Natasha Richardson is gone. A happily married couple is a rarity in America today, and especially in the biz that she and her husband were in, her children look smart and happy and normal - another major accomplishment in the world of Hollywood. It is a real shame. A Tragedy.

Another reason to NEVER take up skiing.