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Family Bids Farewell To Actress Richardson

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The Tampa Tribune

Published: March 23, 2009

A somber group of friends and family gathered in a small Hudson Valley town Sunday to say a final farewell to Tony Award-winning actress Natasha Richardson.

Liam Neeson, in a dark suit and sunglasses, was at the head of the casket as he and five other pallbearers carried his wife's coffin into St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Lithgow, N.Y., near the home where the two married in 1994.

He and Richardson's mother, actress Vanessa Redgrave, waved to the dozens of reporters crowded behind a police barricade on the dirt road leading to the tiny white clapboard church. The grieving family - including the couple's two sons, Micheal, 13, and Daniel, 12 - then paused to allow the media to photograph them in front of the church before the service.

Ralph Fiennes, Alan Rickman, Laura Linney, Uma Thurman and Timothy Dalton were among the friends who filed into the church on the chilly spring afternoon.

After a graveside service under a large green tent, the 45-year-old actress was buried in a nearby cemetery, amid hilly horse farms about 80 miles north of New York City.

She was laid to rest near the grave of her maternal grandmother, actress Rachel Kempson, who died while visiting the family at their home in nearby Millbrook in 2003. Neeson and the Redgrave family, including Richardson's sister, actress Joely Richardson, visited Kempson's grave after the burial.

Richardson died Wednesday at a Manhattan hospital after falling while skiing Monday at the Mont Tremblant resort in the Canadian province of Quebec.

Willis Marries Model Heming

With ex-wife Demi Moore and her husband, Ashton Kutcher, among the guests, Bruce Willis said "I do" with model and actress Emma Heming on Saturday, People magazine confirms.

The small wedding ceremony took place at the actor's home in Parrot Cay, Turks & Caicos.

Also present among the guests were Moore and Willis's daughters, Rumer Willis, 20, Scout, 17, and Tallullah Belle, 15.

The couple, who met through mutual friends, have been together for more than a year and will have a civil ceremony when they return to California, according to a spokesman for Willis.

Bedingfield Weds Businessman

British singer Natasha Bedingfield has gotten married in Malibu, Calif.
People magazine reports the pop songstress wed California businessman Matthew Robinson in a 30-minute outdoor ceremony overlooking the Pacific Ocean on Saturday.

About 150 guests watched Bedingfield walk down the aisle in a Vera Wang dress beside the chateau at the Church Estates Vineyards.

Today's Birthdays

Movie director Mark Rydell is 75. Singer Chaka Khan is 56. Actress Amanda Plummer is 52. Actress Michelle Monaghan is 33. Actress Keri Russell is 33. Actress Nicholle Tom is 31.

Sources: The Associated Press, People.com

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