R.I.P. Natasha Richardson

I never got to see her live. My biggest regret is that my own snobbery about musicals on the West End apparently made me miss a delightful production of "High Society." Trevor Eve as C.K. Dexter Haven and Natasha Richardson as Tracy were supposed to have been good. I've seen her mother, her sister, her grandfather, her aunt, and her uncle but never got to find out if she could hold an audience in the palm of her hand.

There was a movie called "A Month in the Country" which I saw because I'd read the book and loved it. My passion for the First World War made me pick it up, and the movie came to the art theater in Brussels about a month later. I saw it three times. Natasha Richardson was a huge part of that. There was a quiet scene where she talked about apples, and I thought she was the most beautiful woman I'd ever seen.

Some of her mother's greatest performances have come since she turned fifty, Natasha will never have that.