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Absent parents, absent children: Ponyo is all about the yearning for a complete family. Ponyo's anxious dad Fujimoto (Liam Neeson) is a king of the sea, with an aging rock star's gaunt face and flowing seaweed hair. Can he let Ponyo desert the water for life on land? Her mom is even more imposing: Gran Mamare (Cate Blanchett), a magnificent sea goddess who will finally calm the tsunami of trouble Ponyo has stirred...
...controversial Vanessa Redgrave. Richardson died two days after a seemingly unremarkable fall while skiing in Quebec. She lost consciousness and within 24 hours was in three hospitals - the last in New York City, her adopted home, where Redgrave and other family members, including Richardson's actor husband Liam Neeson, stood loving watch. She was 45. Richardson's family released a statement saying, "Liam Neeson, his sons and the entire family are shocked and devastated by the tragic death of their beloved Natasha. They are profoundly grateful for the support, love and prayers of everyone, and ask for privacy during this...
...Appearing as Anna's would-be beau was a strapping Irishman, Liam Neeson, who became an instant matinee idol by playing the role like a backward child with an oversize soul, lurching in an instant from anger to perplexity. It was this performance that convinced Steven Spielberg to cast Neeson as the star of Schindler's List. The actor had a similarly galvanizing effect on Richardson. Married at the time to actor Robert Fox, she divorced him and married Neeson the following year; Franco Nero gave the bride away, Natasha's father having died in 1991. The couple...
...TIME interview, Neeson discussed his physical limitations and his tenuous, tenacious hold on life. In 1986 he had been felled by diverticulitis, an intestinal disorder. That experience scarred him. "I can't plan for next Thursday," he said. "I'll make a note of it and put a question mark after it. I don't like to commit, because you just don't know what's going to happen. It's got to do with 'the moment is now.' " In the same interview, Richardson testified to her future husband's chameleonic nature. "Liam has this gentleness and strength," she says...
...married Neeson in 1994, and the couple have two sons...