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...year he directed the 18th-century caper-comedy Tom Jones, winning Oscars for the picture and himself. Natasha made her film debut at the age of 4 in Dad's revisionist take on The Charge of the Light Brigade. By then, Redgrave had become the brightest new light of stage (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie) and screen (Morgan, Blowup, Camelot.) Having separated from Richardson, Redgrave took up with Franco Nero, her hunky co-star in Camelot. (See pictures of Natasha Richardson's life...
...High Society, she was perennial debutante Tracy Lord, played in movies by Katharine Hepburn and Grace Kelly. She made her Broadway debut in 1993 as Eugene O'Neill's Anna Christie, a part Greta Garbo made famous on film and which Ingrid Bergman and Liv Ullmann had performed on stage...
...Starring roles in movies came less frequently after that. She played roles supporting Jodie Foster (Nell), Lindsay Lohan (The Parent Trap) and Jennifer Lopez (Maid in Manhattan), and appeared with a whole parliament of female stars, including her mother, in the 2007 Evening. But the stage was Richardson's place to shine. In David Leveaux's sturdy revival of Anna Christie, she jettisoned Garbo's singsong Swedish inflections for a flat Minnesota accent. More helpfully, she made Anna a fighter, battered on the wheel of men's lust but still standing defiantly tall...
...Motherhood did not keep Richardson from taking strong stage roles. On Broadway, she was one of the four erotic flagellants in Patrick Marber's biting comedy Closer as well as the one touch of tattered grace in a plebeian revival of Streetcar. And though Londoners shouldn't have been surprised by the way Richardson could wrap an audience in her spell, she was a revelation in Trevor Nunn's take on Ibsen's Lady from the Sea. The plot is high harlequin: a dark and stormy night, a chronically sensitive young wife aching for a strong rogue to free...
...move to serve alcohol has been a “resounding success.” Sales over the weekend were “very good” as customers collectively imbibed two kegs of beer. “Our first two performers last week went up on stage with beers in hand,” Smith said, laughing. Club Passim also adjoins the restaurant Veggie Planet, which shares a close business relationship with the music venue. While Club Passim owns the liquor license, it is Veggie Planet that actually serves the alcohol and keeps 30% of the profits from drink...