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Photograph of Liam Neeson and Vanessa Redgrave by Mike Groll/AP
The NY Times now reports on the final farewell, which took place yesterday 80 miles north of here in Upstate New York, where she and her family had a home. Liam Neeson was one of the six pallbearers, where he carried his wife's coffin into the same church they were married at in 1994, St. Peter's Episcopal. Those in attendance included the couple's two sons, Richardson's mother Vanessa Redgrave, her sister Joely Richardson, Ralph Fiennes, Alan Rickman, Laura Linney, Uma Thurman and Timothy Dalton.
Her grave sits near that of her maternal grandmother, actress Rachel Kempson, who the Times reports died while visiting Richardson and Neeson in 2003. On Friday a private viewing took place at the American Irish Historical Society, where Diane Sawyer, Ethan Hawke and Sarah Jessica Parker were amongst those who came to pay their respects.
And while the press has been uninvited guests to each grieving moment, even filming the coffin being carried into the church, the family has graciously taken time to wave to the cameras throughout their difficult week.
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"Uninvited Guests". By publishing photos like the one above you are a participant. You are creating a demand for these photos.
Thanks, JGNY. I was about to make the same point.
I think that, like it or not, with certain public figures—especially the very famous—the public feels that they are allowed to be a part of various processes, whether it's a birth, a wedding or a funeral. And given the freak accident nature of her injury, there was added interest, which is why many media outlets carried photos/coverage of the funeral.
What the public feels is irrelevant. Everybody deserves privacy. It's the same old argument people always trot out to justify their intrusiveness. "They owe us. Without us, they're nothing." The same could be said of anybody who earns a living from the public, be they barbers, cabbies or fast food workers. Where would Gothamist be without their readers? I guess we should be allowed to stalk and photograph Gothamist writers.
agreed Jen but the post seems to take issue with the practice while simutaneously endorsing it.
Who cares if he's a public figure and the injury was a freak accident? Let the man and his family grieve privately.
I think if you editorialize on other publications' use of the photo(s) and then you use a picture in your post, your statement, "And of course, the press has been uninvited guests to each grieving moment, even filming the coffin being carried into the church," [sic] loses a little of its intended punch.
Either publish the picture or don't, I guess. But if you make it seem like you're judging the mainstream media for making a dubious choice, it seems strange to do the same.
I have a question? Is it me or are her 2 sons either laughing or smiling in the pictures taken since the tragic accident. It seems strange.
You've clearly never been to an Irish wake, have you?
No never but I seen one of her son evening laughing as he left the hospital with his family. Is that normal? just never seen that before with other kids.
they were probably asked to put on a brave face, give the swarms of photographers. they were also probably touched that so many turned up to extend their sympathies and pay tribute to their mother.
i am fortunate that i have yet to suffer the loss of a loved one at a young age. however, i have friends who have, and i have had a chance to observe grief. they will be smiling or laughing at a joke or anecdote someone's made; the next moment, they're crying. its a rollercoaster of emotions and it's not default grief all the time.
ok thanks, just asking since I never since such reactions before. I guess we all react differently to losses. I'm a grown man and when my granny died I cried like a baby in public and my girl cradle me. It must be harder with so many cameras flashing on Richardson's sons.
Years ago I was at the funeral and wake for my friends father who had died very suddenly. My friends teenaged brother spent the entire wake joking around and hitting on me. It was very strange but I think that was just his way of maybe not crying the whole time, teenage boys are complicated creatures.
yesterday was a picture perfect day for a funeral too. It's like out of a movie or something.
I wish GW Bush AND the millions of American azzwipes who voted for him would DIE from a concussion.