Natasha Richardson has passed, and her family has asked for privacy, so I am going to keep this short and sweet.

I have always enjoyed Natasha Richardson work and I am one admirer who will miss her work.

1986 Gothic
1987 A Month in the Country
1988 Patty Hearst
1989 Fat Man and Little Boy
1990 The Handmaid’s Tale
The Comfort of Strangers
1991 The Favour, the Watch and the Very Big Fish
1992 Past Midnight
1994 Nell
Widows’ Peak
1998 The Parent Trap
2001 Blow Dry
Chelsea Walls
2002 Waking Up In Reno
Maid in Manhattan
2005 The White Countess
Asylum
2007 Evening
2008 Wild Child
2009 The Wildest Dream (Voice only, final performance, Liam Neeson narrated)

From PerezHilton.com

We feel like we’ve been talking about this for a million years already!

According to newreports, though, the Sex and the City stars are all on board for a sequel.

Although all the contracts have yet to be signed, it is rumored that SATC’s leading ladies - Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Cynthia Nixon, and Kristin Davis - will be receiving some pretty fat paychecks.

Angeline and Brad better make some room to put the matching trophies somewhere in their gigantic mansion!

The Academy Awards nominees have been announced and Pitt, whose film, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button collected 13 Oscar nods, including Best Picture, called the nominations “a great honor for the movie”.

On Jolie’s nomination, the Changeling star also had words of gratitude for her director: Working with Clint Eastwood “was a reward in itself that will last me a lifetime,” she said.

Also nominated for Best Actress are: Meryl Streep in Doubt; Anne Hathaway in Rachel Getting Married; Melissa Leo in Frozen River; and Kate Winslet in The Reader.

Hollywood’s biggest battle will pit a time-challenged hero, a political war of wits, a gay activist icon, a woman with a Nazi past and a rags-to-riches survivor.

With The Curious Case of Benjamin Button vying for Best Picture along with Frost/Nixon, Milk, The Reader and Slumdog Millionaire, the 81st annual Academy Award nominations were announced Thursday morning – two days later than usual, on account of a little historical pageant that occurred in Washington, D.C., Tuesday.

Benjamin Button led the field, with a total of 13 nominations, including Best Picture, Best Actor, Supporting Actress, Director and Screenplay.

It was followed by Slumdog Millionaire, with 10.

Brad Pitt received his second-ever nomination, Best Actor for Benjamin Button. He was previously cited for his supporting role in 1995’s Twelve Monkeys, but the Oscar went to Kevin Spacey in The Usual Suspects.

The other leading men singled out this year were previous Oscar winner Sean Penn for Milk, and Golden Globe winner Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler). The Visitor’s Richard Jenkins and Frost/Nixon’s Frank Langella round out the list.

http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20254164,00.html

I’ve had more brushes with fame during my summer jobs on Nantucket than anywhere else.

In the summer of, oh, it must have been 1985, a friend and I were working in a gift shop close to Main Street when Billy Joel walked by with his then wife, Christie Brinkley. Of course, we had already gotten word they were coming down the street from friends who worked at other shops and gave us advance notice. We were just waiting for them to make their appearance.

They didn’t walk in the store, but the doorway was open, and when Billy and Christie walked by, my friend yelled to them, “Hey look everybody, it’s Paul Anka and Brooke Shields!”

They turned around and laughed.

I think I’ve had more brushes with fame than any other “everyday” person I know–so many that at one point I was going to send them in to David Letterman and try to get on his show. But I don’t think he does that segment any more.

Actually, I think the last really major brush (or would-be brush) was seven years ago, when I was in a relationship with the brother of actress/model/tv reality star/Dancing-with-the-Stars star, Shanna Moakler.  He and I went to high school together and reunited via Classmates.com.

Anyway, Shanna was about to come home with her then boyfriend, Dennis Quaid, and we were all going to hang out. But two days before the visit, her brother broke up with me. Bwaah, bwaah, bwaah, bwaah…

If you knew me you would laugh, because that’s the sort of thing that happens to me all the time!

If I could be a movie star for life …or at least for one Academy awards ceremony. I know I would make the best dresssed list. I will let you know my top 3 three picks for the best dresses of the evening. Let’s see if you have the same list as me! Details to follow once I get a better look at everyone.