Tributes pour in for Richardson after skiing death

New York, March 20: The theater and movie worlds mourned Natasha Richardson on Thursday after her death from a severe brain injury from a skiing accident in Canada earlier this week.

Comparisons inevitable Comparisons with her mother were inevitable throughout Richardson`s career. "She was so like her mother it was almost unreal, and Natasha Richardson never played down the similarity," theater critic Michael Coveney wrote in The Independent. Richardson followed Redgrave and her father, the late film director Tony Richardson, into a career on stage and screen in Britain and the United States. She won Broadway`s Tony Award in the 1998 musical revival "Cabaret." Richardson was injured on Monday when she fell on a beginners` slope during a private ski lesson at the Mont Tremblant resort, about 75 miles north of Montreal. A spokeswoman for the resort said Richardson appeared to be in good condition after the fall, but her instructor called a ski patrol to take her to the bottom of the hill. About an hour later, she complained of severe headaches and was admitted to a local facility before moving to a Montreal hospital where she was diagnosed with severe brain trauma. "A blow to the head can cause a bruise or rupture a blood vessel that slowly swells, causing pressure to build up inside the skull," said Chris Chandler, neurosurgeon at King`s College Hospital in London. "If that pressure is not relieved it can kill." Bureau Report