Led by husband Liam Neeson, mourners included Richardson’s thespian family Vanessa Redgrave and Joley Richardson.

Actress Uma Thurman attended with fiance Arpad Busson, while her former husband Ethan Hawke showed solo. Fellow Redgrave icon Lauren Bacall arrived with family, alongside shock-jock Howard Stern and wife Beth Ostrosky.

A somber Diane Sawyer turned up for the ceremony, as well as actor Matthew Modine, after which Neeson walked arm-in-arm with an unidentified woman in Central Park.

Richardson was pronounced dead on Wednesday evening, of blunt trauma to the head, stemming from a skiing accident Monday evening at a Canadian resort.

A Celebuzz source saw Thurman, 38, step off a JetBlue flight from JFK International and bolt outside to light up and meet her hired car. When it was nowhere to be found, the blonde charged back in for answers.

“She was really stressed, yelling at her airport escort, demanding to know where the car was,” the spy says.

Thurman showed in travel chic: a long gray cashmere sweater, riding boots and skinny jeans with a brown crocodile Birkin bag.

“She and her kids looked so tired, you could tell she wanted to get them settled but she caused a scene in the middle of the bag claim,” said the source.

Thurman’s (and Ethan Hawke‘s) daughter Maya Ray, 10, stood with a nanny, while son Levon Roan sat on a luggage cart.

The eight-year-old celebrated his birthday yesterday, headed to festival weekend.

Hopefully spirits will lift for the family, who will attend a special concert performance by Driver in celebration of the movie this Wednesday.

The dutiful dads each wore a pair of shades, and their daughters were swathed in green.

But while Tom was all smiles for the paparazzi, Ethan wore his typical angry scowl.

Tom and wife Katie Holmes kept baby Suri under wraps for months before showing her off to the world, but Ethan has been seen toting 37-day-old Clementine out in the open all over New York. However, he seems to have switched tactics.

Ethan’s doing a bit of multi-tasking, what with the baby-toting, dog-walking and coffee break all in one.

Meanwhile, Suri is getting all of Tom’s attention. And when she gets annoyed with the noise from a nearby helicopter, he tries to make her laugh with a doll.

At least it looks like a doll…mutated with the limbs a teddy bear. Maybe it’s an alien?

Hawke and his wife/former nanny Ryan Shawhughes were out and about in New York with their newborn daughter, Clementine Jay Hawke, yesterday. As usual, Ethan was the picture of surliness as he transported the tot to the taxicab.

Seriously, the guy never smiles when he’s out with his family.

You’re never going to win Father of the Year with that attitude, Mr. Sourpuss!

Okay, Ethan; so maybe you felt pressured to have a quickie, last-minute wedding to secure your kid’s legitimacy. But there’s no un-ringing that bell or un-birthing that baby.

Might as well settle in for the long haul and embrace the duties of fatherhood, Ethan. Like this guy, for instance.

From the looks of Ryan, their bundle of joy should be arriving any minute now. In fact, Ryan very well may have given birth while they waited for their number to be called at the bakery. Talk about awkward.

They sure do look like a happy couple—or, at least, less visibly distraught than they’ve appeared during previous outings. The pair were happy to show off their matching wedding bands, too.

Congratulations, guys! Your trip to the altar might have been surreptitious and 11th-hour, but at least you’re not littering the landscape with illegitimate kids, like some celebrities are in the habit of doing.

You just knew Uma and ex-husband Ethan Hawke gettng married on the same day was too good to be true. After all, when you’ve snagged a Swiss millionaire, surely you wanna squeeze every penny out of him for a lavish shindig, not exchange vows next to an IKEA coat rack.

Hmmm. Wonder if Uma’s timing her happy day around Ryan Shawhughes‘ impending due date to get out of inviting her baby daddy and backstabbin’ ex nanny to the wedding?

INF Daily noticed a party service van loading up bags and large tables outside her home Thursday. Later, the couple were spotted along with Uma’s children Maya and Roan leaving the apartment looking as if they were packed for a trip.

Thursday it was also confirmed that Ethan Hawke had wed his former nanny, Ryan Shawhughes, who is pregnant with his baby. Though secret until now, Hawke and Shawhughes were actually hitched last month in New York City, Ethan’s publicist confirmed to the Associated Press. The couple was seen last month obtaining a marriage license.

While Uma’s honeymooning in some lush, exotic locale, Ethan is probably enjoying some Lamaze classes with his former nanny. Too romantic.

As proof of her betrothal, the statuesque blond is sporting a hefty eight-karat diamond, and confirmation was provided by her rep to People. An insider dished to the mag that the ring is one hell of a sparkler: “It’s the most beautiful piece I’ve ever seen.”

Busson clearly has a penchant for the tall and gorgeous, having dated supermodel Elle Macpherson, with whom he has two sons.

As for Thurman, her ex-husband, Ethan Hawke, is perched to marry the ex-couple’s former nanny who is currently very pregnant with his child. Were Uma petty enough to be comparing notes, getting engaged to a wealthy tycoon might indicate to some that she’s winning the breakup war.

Oh, wait, you didn’t know relationships were a competition? Well, yes, they are. And by the way, the Tooth Fairy is your mom.

The two were spotted by a Page Six spy applying for a marriage license at the Municipal Building on Centre Street in New York City.

Hawke’s rep confirmed Ryan’s pregnancy this past January to People magazine.

When the star split from ex-wife Uma Thurman, it was amid rumors that he had been unfaithful. According to the New York Daily News, Shawhughes was the object of Ethan’s extramarital attraction. “He was terrified,” a source said, “because he knew if Uma found out he was with their nanny, she’d blow up and the divorce would get nasty when it had been going relatively well.”

So well, in fact, that the other woman will now be giving Uma’s kids a half-sibling.