This is for you Cory

Lea opens up about Cory´s passing on Ellen.
I can´t describe how much respect i got for her. She´s sooo stong and handled this whole situation so bravely. Hope the critics now shut the fuck up!

Cory would be so proud of her. Can´t wait for the record to come out.
Especially to hear "If You Say So" The Song for Cory.

#LOUDER IS AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW!!!! OMG!!!!! pic.twitter.com/e7uIvBgRmh
— Lea Michele (@msleamichele) December 10, 2013

#CANNONBALL IS AVAILABLE NOW!!! pic.twitter.com/zG7i1oeQJV
— Lea Michele (@msleamichele) December 10, 2013

@msleamichele love you. It sounds amazing, I'm so happy you're singing it.

— sia furler (@Sia) December 10, 2013

Best Part Release Date for Germany Feb 28, 2014 instead of Mar 04, 2014 :)

:)

Congrats on your album #LOUDER can't wait for everyone to hear! @msleamichele

— Bonnie Dune (@bonnie_dune) December 8, 2013

@DMariaOdesa all of them.Miss his voice and his smile.How much he loved the studio.Great times and memories that I will carry with me
— Adam Anders (@AdamAnders) November 12, 2013

Miss you too Cory..
Even Glee isn´t the same without you...

Lea Michele was living her dream as Glee´s resident drama queen, dating the quarterback on-screen and off. Then, Cory Monteith´s tragic death shattered her world. She opens up to Lizzy Goodman about love, mourning through music, and finding strength in Cory´s legacy

"A lighthouse doesn’t save the ships; it doesn’t go out and rescue them, it’s just this pillar that helps to guide people home," says Michele three months later. The supertite 5’3" actress is dressed in track pants and a black T-shirt, her bare feet tucked under her on a patio char outside by the pool at her modest airy West Hollywood home. "Someone once told me that, and I love the image. Lately, I’ve been using it as a guiding metaphor." Exactly waht the metaphor stands for isn’t immediately clear: Is she the lighthouse? Is "home" simply a safe haven? But it seems to be her way of describing what she’s searching for, and perhaps what she tried to be for Monteith, before it was too late. "I never thought I would be in this position in my whole life," she continues, both hands wrapped around a mug of tea. Glee was on hiatus when Monteith died, but now the fifth season is under way and Michele finds herself mourning a private loss in public.

In the show’s recently aired tribute, Glee creator Ryan Murphy and his team chose not to explain how Monteith’s character, Finn, died, opting instead to bring together members of the glee club, past and present, to mourn through song. Throughout the episode, the emotional suffering of the characters obviously reflects that of the actors themselves. And none more so than Michele-ever the professional, she recites Rachel Berry’s scripted dialogue but the tears seem real. Her rendition of Bob Dylan’s “Make You feel My Love” reasonates with genuine heartbreak.

"Before Cory passed away, Lea was definitely the leader on set, and so was Cory," says Jane Lynch, who plays conniving cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester. "She has been an absolute trouper. she’s the reason we’re back at work right now instead of taking a season off." In addition to the pressure of helping to keep the show together, Michele feels the pressure of knowing legions of grieving Glee fans read into her every move: Is she already dating again? Could their relationship have been a publicity stunt all along? "Now that I am in this position, you can choose to rise and that’s what I’m going to try to do," she says. "I know that Cory would want nothing more than for me to take this situation and use it to help people. I don’t know if I will. I don’t know how."

So far, Michele’s response has been to just give herself time; the 27-year-old actress pushed back the release of her as-of-yet untitled solo record into 2014. “It’s very hard,” she says, shaking her head. “And you have to be very strong to come out of this alive, but I think by doing the best for myself, by showing that you don’t have to lose yourself, maybe someone else will feel some sort of strength or comfort.”

Though four years his junior, Michele was by that point already a veteran performer, having been on Broadway since childhood. An award-winning role as Wendla in the Tony winning rock musical Spring Awakening had christened her a bona fide star. Plus, everyone knew Glee had been developed with Michele in mind. Monteith liked to talk about how intimidated he felt by her accomplishments and how nervous he was to meet her, a thought that still makes Michele smile. “From the minute I met Cory, I was like, This is the most handsome man I’ve ever seen in my whole life,” she remembers. 

The pair briefly dated at the beginning of Glee, but no one really caught on,” the actress says. They were both adjusting to celebrity life in Los Angeles, being followed by paparazzi and obsessed over by some 10 million viewers who’d fallen in love with their show overnight. Together, they became a spokescouple for the increasingly powerful Glee brand. Since its debut, the show has become a cross-genre phenomenon. In addition to winning six Emmys and four Golden Globes, the show’s soundtracks have sold more than 13 million copies worldwide, helping to fuel several Glee Live! tours, in which Monteith and Michele performed. 

By late 2011, Monteith and Michele were officially a couple. “One day we just looked at each other and we were like, ‘You wanna do this?’ We knew.” But by March of 2013, Monteith was back in rehab, and his history with drugs became public. Michele is circumspect about what she knew when, and how she tried to help. “I can only imagine what it looks like from the outside,” she allows. “It was such a short period of time between when people found out to, you know, July, but there are so manyy personal aspects of this whole journey that people are not invited to know. We had a full life, and that had lots of different details that will be ours forever, for only us to know.” Asked if she was worried about him, her response is quick. “Of course,” she says. “Who wouldn’t be worried?”

Considering her well-documented focus and ambition-and those extraordinary pipes- Michele might strike you as someone who was a musical-theater-fanatic kid, the kind who breaks into Annie songs at the dinner table. In fact, she didn’t even sing as a child. Born Lea Sarfati, the actress was definitely a natural performer, but, always doing voices and accents, she seemed more like a comedian than a vocalist. When Michele was in elementary school, her mom drove another girl to an open call for Les Miserables as a favor, and eight-year-old Lea, on a whim, decided to audition as well. “My mom was like, ‘What do you mean? You don’t sing! This is for Broadway!’” Miraculously, she got the part of Young Cosette-having never taken a voice lesson or performed professionally in her life. “‘Don’t ever let me stop. I want to do this for the rest of my life,’” she told her parents after her first performance. “I just knew. And that comes with such relief. You don’t have this internal agita-what should I do with my life?!-you can just go forward 100 percent. My parents were encouraging but chill.” she says. “There was none of that pageant show-pony ‘perform for us’ thing. My family respects that this is really, truly what I love, but it’s also my job. When I’m with them, I’m Lea Sarfati.”

Michele’s parents met in their Bronx neighborhood when they were barely teenagers. He was Jewish; she was an Italian Catholic. Their courtship was “not quite accepted,” Michele says, but they’ve been together “for, like, a hundred years.” “It’s a blessing to come from such great, strong, solid parents who are still together,” Michele says. “But it’s also a little bit like, ‘Woah, they achieved it-can I as well?’” They raised Michele in Tenafly, New Jersey, where her dad worked in a deli and her mom was a nurse. An only child, she got their full attention. “Both of my parents are such hard workers,” the actress says. “But my father, specifically, is the most active, perfectionist, on-it multitasker in the world. I get that ability to really focus, that drive, from him. I always wanted to show them that I was on point and professional, ever since I was a kid.” 

After Les Mis, she continued to work steadily on Broadway, next appearing as Jewish immigrant Tateh’s daughter, the face of innocence and promise, in the original cast of Ragtime. At high school in New  Jersey, “I was on the volleyball team, I was on the debate team, I went to summer camp, I went to my prom, I was at my graduation, I was at spring break,” she remembers proudly. “I had a normal school experience.” Or as normal as it could have been, heading off to 42nd Street after school when most kids were going to soccer practice.

When Michele was 14, she began participating in readings and workshops for a new musical. Spring Awakening was set in nineteenth-century Germany but featured rowdy pop rock by ’90s singer-songwriter Duncan Sheik; the show preceded the wash of rock musicals we’ve seen since (American Idiot, Rock of Ages, Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark). It was groundbreaking, not only for its anachronistic fusion of place, time, and musical genre, but also for its brave exploration of adolescent sexual desire and the costs of suppressing it, themes that would later echo on an even bigger cultural stage with Glee. Michele knew Spring Awakening was the perfect launching pad for her own blend of talents-the classic chipper musical-theater song-and-dance plus the magnificently moody, grown-up voice and physicality. The show took five years to launch, and Michele was there the whole way. “I was sitting on this golden egg,” she recalls. “I knew it was magic.” The bet paid off: “Once we finally performed on the show Off-Broadway, everything was like, bam, bam, bam: Off-Broadway, Broadway, reviews, eight Tony Awards- we checked every box of what makes a successful Broadway show.” And Michele’s perfect pitch, arresting stage presence, and what Murphy has called her “once-in-a-generation voice” were no small part of what set the show apart.

Michele says her secret weapon has long been her capacity to maintain some balance in an off-kilter world. These days she’s a kundalini yoga devotee with a bathroom full of holistic soaks and health-nut supplements. The actress hopes to communicate that spiritual side to her young fans with Brunette Ambition, a book out next May, which will tell girls that “it’s possible to live a really fun lifestyle that’s still grounded and centered.” Part how-to, part memoir, the book will be made up of recipes, stories about her family, and, of course, a chapter on Glee.

"A trend with Lea is that moments of uncertainty always end up reaping her great rewards," says her best friend, Jonathan Groff, who has known Michele since he played her love interest in Spring Awakening. (Groff also guest starred as rival Jesse St. James on Glee.) "When something happens to her and a feeling comes up, she does not go above it, below it, or around it. She always goes through it, completely, and experiences it."

Groff is responsible for having introduced Michele to Ryan Murphy. “I was told my whole life that I would never do television because my look was too ethnic,” says Michele in a tone more of pragmatism than resentment. “I was 100 percent focused and ready to be the best in the world that I was in.” She figured she’d do Broadway shows for the rest of her life and maybe come out to L.A. for the odd bit part, “like a little car-crash victim on Grey’s Anatomy,” she says.

And then her plans came undone. All at once, her boyfriend broke up with her (“He’s just like, ‘We’re done’”) and Spring Awakening’s stagehands went on strike, shutting down the show. “I’m like, ‘Okay, this is the universe starting to do some crazy shit,’” she says. Michele called Groff, who was in L.A. working on a pilot. He persuaded her to fly to California immediately. A few days later, she and Groff met Murphy for dinner at the Chateau Marmont, and Rachel Berry was born. “She’d been bemoaning the fact that there were no roles for girls like her, not a lot of musical romantic-comedy roles,” Murphy remembers. “I really wrote the role for her, to give her something where she could really strut her stuff.” Rachel Berry was one of the two Glee parts written specifically for a particular actor; the other was Lynch’s Sue Sylvester. They shot the pilot less than a year later, and since then Michele has been nominated for two Golden Globes, and an Emmy. “Lea’s the heart of the show,” says Murphy. “Her character and her spirit embody what the show is about, which is first times and discoveries and the trajectory that you take on your way to becoming a star. That’s all very intertwined with Lea and her persona.”

In some ways, though, Michele is too closely aligned with her character. Of course the real woman is a much more fully drawn and complex person than the one she plays on TV-but it’s not hard to see how her personality can be misread as difficult. Michele is exacting. She likes things a certain way-take for example, the careful neatness of her home, the encyclopedic list of recommendations she rattles off for great L.A. sushi restaurants, the way she can’t help but correct me when I confuse two of her song titles. She has very high standards and defines herself by her ability to meet them. You would not want to be on her bad side. “Totally,” Groff concurs. “You’re in or you’re out with Lea. Her friendship is extreme in a good way.”

There is, however, a warmth underlying that fierceness. Kate Hudson, the actress MIchele was rumored to be feuding with on the set of Glee back in the summer of 2012, is in fact one of her closest friends. “The media just wants to pit girls against each other,” Hudson says of rumors that she called Michele a “nightmare” to work with and a “total diva.” In reality, “it’s one of those jokes where you sit in the makeup chair and you start a pool to see when the story’s going come out that we hate each other, you know?” Glee’s Murphy sees the smack talk as plain old sexism. “Every woman, like Lea Michele, who has become very celebrated throughout the history of show business-be it Bette Davis or Barbra Streisand-if they’re anything but demure, they’d get shit for it all the time. If you’re a man and you claim yourself to be ambitious, you’re celebrated. A woman who says the same is looked upon as cold or a shrew. That’s the culture.”

Immediately following Monteith’s death, Michele turned to Hudson. “I called her and said, ‘I don’t know where I’m going to go because my house is swarmed [with reporters],’” Michele remembers. “She was like, ‘Oh, you’re going to stay at my house.’ Like it was nothing.” The seclusion was just what she needed. “No one knew I was there, which was so great,” she says. “She let my family stay there, and any of my friends. She made sure that in the refrigerator there were my favorite juices. I’ll never really be able to thank her, truly, for what she did for me.” Hudson still gets choked up talking about those weeks. “Honestly, she was inspiring,” the actress says. “She’s a very strong, special, loving woman. She really has dealt with the emotional side of it in a way that has been very healthy.”

"Okay, this song really makes me want to fucking kill myself," Michele says, half-jokingly. "I can only listen to it once every six months. "We’re sitting at Pulse Recording studio in Los Angeles with the singer’s production team, playing the tracks Michele has recorded for her long-awaited album. Michele is a whole different person when talking about her music-a saucier, flashier, more animated version of the composed, wounded girl she was at home. Today she’s dressed like a hipster superhero in skintight jeans, Fiorentini and Baker biker boots, and a paper-thin suede tank accessorized with a Starbucks coffee (black with just a splash of skim milk). 

After trying out a few different sounds, Michele and her team had settled on the record’s current vibe-big, splashy, anthemic pop, a cross between Evanescence and Kelly Clarkson without a whiff of a show tune-when Monteith died. “The album was done, and the label said, ‘Do you want to add anything?’” Michele recalls. At first she didn’t think she did, but she reconsidered. “I was like, ‘I might regret it if I don’t.’”

To help write a song about Monteith, she reached out to Sia Furler, the Australian singer-songwriter who has worked with Katy Perry, Rihanna, and Christina Aguilera and has five songs on Michele’s album. When they met, “it took her a second, and then I guess she had me right, and she knew that her secrets were safe with me,” Furler says. They co-wrote “If You say So”-named for the last words Monteith said to Michele. The track isn’t finished yet, but it will definitely be on the album Michele says, as will another track added after Monteith died, called “Cannonball.” While working with Furler on that song the actress broke down in sobs. “I said [to Furler], ‘I feel like I’m starting to just sink in it, and he would never want me to do that. I need to remember that you have to live, because you can’t want to die.’”

Telling this story, Michele quotes the “Cannonball” lyrics: “I’ve got to get out into the world again/ I won’t hide inside/ I’ve got to get out/ Got to get out/ Lonely inside but I’m going to light the fuse…and now I will start living.”

Over the curse of two days together for this story, Michele’s eyes mist up a few times. But it’s not until she plays another song, “You’re mine,” recorded well before Monteith’s death, that she actually lets go. It’s a comparatively upbeat track built around the notion that one person can belong to another for life. It’s about the way love makes you feel invincible-everything else seems possible, because you have this person on your team forever. As it plays, Michele closes her eyes, sings along, and cries. “It makes me so happy, this song,” she shouts over the backbeat, grinning through her tears. “It makes me think so much of Cory. It was ours. When I think of him, I play this.”

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Couldn´t that be this Year .. :(

Not that i need further proof how awesome & caring he was..
this story and the letter from Cory is without words ..

”Dear Lukas,
I’ve heard about your story and it makes me really sad that people are bullying you. I mean, just because you are gay? You are precious, your life is precious! No matter what they are doing or saying don’t stop believing! Fight for your dreams and never let anyone bring you down. You are worth it! Please stop cutting I know how hard it is, but please never do it again. And if somebody is ever going to bully you again, I’m flying to Germany and kick their asses!
Love and Hope,
Cory Monteith”

Das ist jetzt so eine 0815 Tumblr Geschichte aber sie ist wirklich so passiert und ich will sie unbedingt mit euch teilen: Letztes Jahr sind in meinem Leben ziemlich viele schlimme Dinge passiert, meine Mum wurde krank, das mit dem Mobbing fing an etc. naja irgendwann habe ich mich geritzt, was so lange ging, bis ich versucht hab mich umzubringen. Aber darum soll’s jetzt nicht gehen. Jedefalls gab es da einen Schauspieler, der so ziemlich das Selbe mitgemacht hatte wie ich. Cory Monteith, Finn aus Glee. Ja, ich weiß viele von euch werden sich jetzt denken: Was schaut der sich denn an? Aber die Serie hat mir halt irgendwie geholfen, nicht aufzugeben und an meine Träume zu glauben. Ich hab mich dann dazu entschlossen eine e-Mail an die Macher von Glee zu schreiben und mich dafür zu bedanken und nachzufragen ob sie das Cory vielleicht sagen könnnten. Ein paar Wochen später bekam ich einen Brief aus New York. Cory hatte mir geschrieben und alle seine Co-Stars unterschreiben lassen! Im August diesen Jahres hat Cory uns verlassen. Ich will, dass auch in Deutschland nicht vergessen wird was für ein toller Mensch er war und deswegen bitte ich euch, egal ob es zu eurem Blog passt oder nicht, diesen Post zu rebloggen. Er hat es verdient.

Cory, ich vermisse dich und danke für alles.

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one of the saddest scenes from "The Quarterback" .....

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Cory Monteith tribute spurs strong social media traffic

Some social media numbers are coming in from Fox’s tribute to Cory Monteith on Glee. Fox included during Glee a promo to drive fans to his favorite charities and to a site helping seeking help for addiction issues. Not only did the episode rank as Glee‘s biggest in a year, the outpouring of fan emotion online resulted in…

– The episode generating more than 822,000 mentions across Twitter and public Facebook data.
– There were more than 350k uses of #rememberingcory, the hashtag that populated Fox’s tribute site.
– There were also nearly 10,000 referrals from the site to Cory’s charities (Project Limelight, Virgin Unite &Chrysalis).
– At one point during the East Coast telecast last night, seven of the Top 10 trending topics on Twitter were related to Glee.

Thursday’s heartfelt tribute to the fallen Glee co-star delivered 7.4 million viewers  Credit

Caught him sleeping on the job. #RememberingCory pic.twitter.com/51n7s38V1Q
— Jared Baral (@JaredBaral) October 11, 2013

Thanks for all of the beautiful messages about #TheQuarterback. He touched all of our hearts! I miss him... pic.twitter.com/mirUMUvWi9
— Matthew Morrison (@Matt_Morrison) October 11, 2013

ThankU all from the bottom of my heart for watching our Tribute 2 the sweetest guy ever lived. I am so Touched by all your tweets. Much Love
— iqbal theba (@iqbaltheba) October 11, 2013

thanks to everyone who has bought #TheQuarterback EP. A lot of tears and love went into it. Hope you enjoy the music and this week's episode
— Adam Anders (@AdamAnders) October 9, 2013

I'm so proud of the #glee cast & crew for their strength & love in creating such a beautiful episode for Cory (and Finn). Love you all.
— Kalen G (@KalanaFalana) October 10, 2013

Tune in with all of us tonight to say goodbye to our friend Cory and our quarterback, Finn.
— Jenna Ushkowitz (@JennaUshkowitz) October 10, 2013

Forever in our hearts. #finnhudson http://t.co/dYRwLBwiu5
— Harry Shum Jr (@iharryshum) October 11, 2013

Tonights Glee was made out of a lot of love & a lot of tears by our incredible crew, cast & creators for our friend Cory. We miss you Cory
— Kevin McHale (@druidDUDE) October 11, 2013

Tonight we said goodbye to Finn. We all poured our hearts into this episode because we love and miss you Cory.
— Alex Anders (@alxanders) October 11, 2013

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Thanks to everyone who bought "The Quarterback" soundtrack.100% of profits will be donated to Project Limelight,one of Cory's fav charities.
— Kevin McHale (@druidDUDE) October 11, 2013

If you want to buy the EP and support Project Limelight go to KLICK

 

Sorry didn´t have the time (holidays) or the energy to post anything these last weeks....

It was a beautiful and very tearful Tribute to Finn & Cory. I had the chance to watch it live and it was so so tough and very emotional.














Thanks Mike! Sorry they cancelled your new Show :(

Glee's Ryan Murphy on Finn Tribute: "It Was Incredibly Difficult to Work On"

"It was incredibly difficult to work on," co-creator and executive producer Ryan Murphy told. "It was very difficult to shoot." "Almost everything in that episode is from the first take of every performance because ... the actors and the crew had a really hard time shooting it. I've never seen a crew that you can't continue shooting because they've left the room sobbing," Murphy said. "I struggled even working on it because what you're seeing is what they felt about not just Finn, but Cory. So I think it's amazing performances across the board, and everybody went into it with a lot of love."

That everybody includes several returning actors, such as Mark Salling, Mike O'Malley and Rosy Rosemont, all of whom have not been seen on the show in some time. Murphy said several actors, such as Iqbal Theba, reached out to him about appearing in the episode.

"When you write something like that, there's no right way to do it," Murphy said. "So we wrote it. We put people who were under contract to the show in it, and a lot of the actors contacted me and said, 'I just loved him so much. Can I just please be a part of it?'"

Although Murphy discussed the difficulty in writing the episode, portions of the episode aren't scripted but are "what really happened" as a natural consequence of Monteith's close bonds with the cast and crew.

"Those actors and the creators really, really loved Cory," he said. "People still are not over it. It's still very, very difficult."

Murphy pointed to the episode's title, "The Quarterback," in explaining Monteith's role on set.

"Cory really was that to that group of people and to me particularly, and there was nobody on that crew that did not like Cory," he said. "That group of kids, particularly, went through the limelight and became world famous at a very difficult age and many of them really struggled with it/ And Cory obviously very much struggled with it, but never on the surface, and I think that's why everybody loved him."

Despite the emotional strain behind the scenes, Murphy felt confident about the final outcome.

"I'm very proud of it," he said of the episode. "I think the performances are quite stunning."

Promo for "The Quarterback"



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@bethany6788 Wow, thank you. I really wanted to write something that the fans would love, so that means everything.
— Damian Holbrook (@TVGMDamian) October 2, 2013

perfect really perfect just what i needed before my vacation.. the final and official report from BC´s coroner on Cory´s Death is out..  God sometimes it is better not to know everything.. why has everything have to be so damn public :(

Oh Cory why .. i don´t understand it :(

ONE LAST HIGH FIVE FOR #CORYMONTEITH

Our job at V.I.A. isn’t to deliver bummer news to you, in fact it’s very obviously the opposite; we celebrate all of the things that make Vancouver great, with the hope that doing so will not only connect you more with your city but also encourage more awesomeness all around.

It’s likely that you already heard the news of Vancouver’s Cory Monteith passing this weekend. A collective friend to all of us, a fan of Vancouver who returned to his home here as often as he could, he first appeared on V.I.A. in 2010 after he sent us this photo below from the Glee set at Paramount Studios in LA. It remains one of my personal favourite HIGH FIVING CELEBRITIES photos, mostly because we cold-called the dude on Twitter and he humoured us. He had over a million followers yet still took time to spread some cheer in Vancouver.

When we INTERVIEWED him about what makes Vancouver awesome Cory replied,

“For me, the number of different shades of awesome packed into a relatively small square footage is what makes Vancouver truly amazing. Sea, mountains, wilderness, city… and all the different cultural influences. Everywhere else in the world you can find awesome things if you know where to look, but in Vancouver it’s probably across the street.”

Cory’s lasting legacy in our city will be the kids at Project Limelight which he CHAMPIONED and raised awareness and money for. Mentioning Michael J. Fox as his favourite Vancouverite, he said “[Michael's] ‘incurable optimism’ is a moral example for us all.”. We hope that Cory’s friends, family, all of his fans and especially the kids at Project Limelight, remember him for his smile, his positivity, and the honest way in which he represented himself – as well as Canada – to the world. I know we will.

High five, dude.

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I can´t believe we are only one week away from the Finn Tribute Episode.
And i can´t believe i´m be able to watch it live because i´m on holidays in the USA next week. I hope i´m well prepared...box with tissues next to me



I miss him so much :(


Oh and Glee Season 4 DVD is now available. I thought wouldn´t it be great if they bring out a special Finn Tribute Edition? Maybe with a special Cover to honor Finn.
Yeah that would be great..

Tonight on #ETCGoesWest we talk exclusively with @maureenwebb from @ProjLimelight about her late friend Cory Monteith http://t.co/c4XgaM7EEY
— ET Canada (@ETCanada) September 26, 2013

Maureen Webb Remembers Cory Monteith

Glee returns tonight on Global, launching its fifth season, without the late Cory Monteith. And while ET Canada's Erin Cebula is in Victoria for ETC Goes West, she catches up with a very important person in the late star's life, Maureen Webb.

Maureen exclusively talks with us about her friend Cory and she was one of the last people to see him alive before his tragic death last summer in Vancouver.

She tells us how she was also one of the last people to witness the Glee star's generous spirit.

"It just feels like such a waste of a great talent and a really lovely young man," she tells Erin. "Through this tragedy, through this sad thing that has happened... I want people to know that he does have a legacy."

That legacy is a cause that was close to Cory's heart, called Project Limelight - a theatre program in Vancouver to help kids in the city with dreams of making it big.

"When we started Project Limelight, my sister and I, we decided the person we wanted most involved was Cory," she explains. "I think he found a connection here because a lot of the kids we work with reminded him of himself when he was younger."

She reveals how much he and his role on Glee affected people, "It was a groundbreaking show. And it really affected a lot of people. And so I want to give them some comfort in knowing that um, his legacy is here."

more here

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— Ryan Murphy (@MrRPMurphy) September 26, 2013

#RememberingCory #InHonorofCory

"Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away" - #RememberingCory
— Glee (@gleeks) September 26, 2013

No matter how hard it is to watch #Glee this season, we are STRONG & we'll stay #GLEEKS forever #InHonorofCory
— Glee (@gleeks) September 26, 2013

GLEE: The McKinley High family, past and present, join together to remember and celebrate the life of Finn Hudson (Cory Monteith) in “The Quarterback” episode of GLEE airing Thursday, Oct. 10 (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. ©2013 Fox Broadcasting Co. CR: FOX

Synopsis

In the wake of Finn’s sudden death, former members of New Directions return to McKinley to remember their fallen friend. While a stoic Mr. Schue encourages all the gleeks to “memorialize him the way we do everything – by singing about it,” some of the kids find the exercise more cathartic than others. At the Hudson-Hummel home, Kurt, Burt and Carole sort through Finn’s belongings and what begins as a somber occasion blossoms into a poignant and much needed family moment. Meanwhile, Emma grows concerned when she believes Will is so busy taking care of others that he’s not allowing himself time to grieve; Santana struggles with using her “bitch” mask to hide her fond feelings for Finn, and has a run in with Bree, McKinley’s “New Santana”; and following a heart-to-heart with Coach Beiste, Puck honors Finn’s memory by making a life-changing decision about his future.

Glee - Episode 5.03 - The Quarterback - Press Release
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, ON FOX

The McKinley High family, present and past, join together to remember
and celebrate the life of Finn Hudson

Cast:
Matthew Morrison as Will Schuester
Lea Michele as Rachel Berry
Chris Colfer as Kurt Hummel
Kevin McHale as Artie
Jenna Ushkowitz as Tina
Naya Rivera as Santana Lopez
Darren Criss as Blaine Anderson
Chord Overstreet as Sam Evans
Jacob Artist as Jake Puckerman
Melissa Benoist as Marley Rose
Becca Tobin as Kitty Wilde
Alex Newell as Wade "Unique" Adams
Blake Jenner as Ryder Lynn

Guest Cast:
Jayma Mays as Emma Pillsbury
Mark Salling as Noah "Puck" Puckerman
Harry Shum Jr. as Mike Chang
Dot Marie Jones as Coach Beiste
Mike O'Malley as Burt Hummel
Romy Rosemont as Carole Hudson-Hummel
Iqbal Theba as Principal Figgins
Erinn Westbrook as Bree
Pamela Chan as Dottie Kazatori

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"I think that grieving comes in waves. Every day that I go to work, I walk past his trailer, and every time I look at a call sheet I see that his name is not on there. Every time I do a scene with the kids I realize that he's not there, so you're reminded in every moment. It's hard, and it feels like such a waste."

Jane Lynch for People Magazine

FAN REMEMBERS CORY WITH VANCOUVER TRIP
from Montourage Unite

Go an read this beautiful Story
http://montourageunite.com/post/62034017584/fan-remembers-cory-with-vancouver-trip

“From the first time you saw Cory, he had a star quality and a genuine sweetness that made it impossible not to fall in love with him. And millions did fall in love with Cory.”

“Cory was a beautiful soul. He was not perfect, which many of us here tonight can relate to. His death is a tragic reminder of the rapacious, senseless destruction that is brought on by addiction. Tonight we remember Cory for all he was, and mourn the loss of all he could have been.”

Jane Lynch

Emmy Tribute to Cory

Tonight are the Emmys Awards 2013. There will be a Tribute to Cory as promised.
I'm very excited to hear what Jane has to say. I'm pretty sure it will be something special and very touching. I think i need a whole package of tissues while watching it :(

NPH Rolls Out Emmys Red Carpet, Previews Tributes

The second-most tweeted scripted show, and the most-tweeted comedy, is Glee, which inspired nearly 3 million tweets this past year.

While the musical series is up for another four nominations, they come on a somber note, as cast member Cory Monteith died at the age of 31 due to drug overdose before the show’s fifth season. Jane Lynch, who is nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actress, will tribute her late co-star during the show’s in memoriam segment.

"We just wanted to honor specific people in a more unique way and not in a pander-y kind of way," Harris said of the scheduled tributes. "We thought that being able to speak about Cory’s death without seeming to be profiting from it in any way seemed really appropriate."

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This song always popped into my head when I think of Cory ...

Hey there now

Where'd you go

You left me here so unexpected

You changed my life

I hope you know

Cause now I'm lost

So unprotected

In a blink of an eye

I never got to say goodbye

Like a shooting star

Flyin' across the room

So fast so far

You were gone too soon

You're part of me

And I'll never be

The same here without you

You were gone too soon

You were always there

And like shining light

On my darkest days

You were there to guide me

Oh I miss you now

I wish you could see

Just how much your memory

Will always mean to me

In a blink of an eye

I never got to say goodbye

Like a shooting star

Flyin' across the room

So fast so far

You were gone too soon

You're part of me

And I'll never be

The same here without you

You were gone too soon

Shine on! shine on!

To a better place

Shine on! shine on!

Will never be the same

Like a shooting star

Flyin' across the room

So fast so far

You were gone too soon

You're part of me

And I'll never be

The same here without you

You were gone too soon

Shine on! shine on!

You were gone too soon

Shine on! shine on!

You were gone too soon

Shine on! shine on!

You were gone too soon

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What a beautiful & sad version  Well done Lea

Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away

Now it looks as though they're here to stay

Oh, I believe in yesterday  

“"We had a memorial before we went back to work,” [Jane Lynch] says. “It was just for the cast and the crew. The crew is also grieving, they loved him very much. We had a memorial that was really hard and moving but wonderful. Everybody supported each other so it was good that we did that before we started work. The third episode has been difficult but beautiful and it’s beautifully written. I think it’s a great tribute not just to Cory but to his character, Finn, who was a lot like Cory — kind of the quarterback of our group and the leader. It’s kind of dealing with each kid losing this guy they looked up to.” So the third episode, titled Quarterback, will find the kids from Glee singing songs that Finn Hudson sang. Lynch thinks it will help with the healing, and not just for cast and crew. “Everybody says ‘I’m sorry for your loss,’ ” says Lynch about meeting fans after Monteith’s death. “But, what’s interesting is it’s their loss too and I know that they just want to share with somebody who understands. It’s almost like you want to get ahold of the people who knew him and loved him the way they did. He had a lot of fans and a lot of people who loved him. That’s why I think this third episode will be so good for everybody.”

- Jane Lynch, talking about Cory and the tribute episode

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Dot Marie Jones talks filming the Cory Monteith Tribute and Lea

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Matthew Morrison: "So many tears on set"

“The third episode will be a tribute to Cory, and it’s some of our very best work ever. We lost Cory. We miss him a lot, and while filming we often had to cut and reshoot the scene, because so many of us were crying. But with his loss the Glee family is even more united, this tragedy has given us a new knowledge and made us stronger.”

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“It’s just a tribute to him and just a testament to Finn of how amazing of a person the character was, and it kind of holds true to how amazing Cory was and Cory still is, because he touched a lot of hearts and we have to remember that it’s not just our loss because we weren’t the only people that loved him. There were so many other fans and so many other people in his life that absolutely loved him, so it’s just like, it’s a loss for everyone, not just us.”

— Alex Newell

The Emmys will add a personal touch to remember some high-profile stars (and a producer) who died in the past year.

In addition to the traditional “In Memoriam” segment with a montage of departed greats, Sunday’s 65th Emmy Awards ceremony (CBS, live, 8 p.m .ET/5 p.m. PT) will feature separate tributes to James Gandolfini, Gary David Goldberg, Cory Monteith, Jean Stapleton and Jonathan Winters delivered by friends who knew them well.

Edie Falco will remember Gandolfini, her co-star onThe Sopranos; Michael J. Fox will honor his Family Ties producer, Goldberg; Jane Lynch will talk about her Glee castmate, Cory Monteith; Rob Reiner will pay homage to Stapleton, who played his mother-in-law Edith Bunker on All in the Family; and Robin Williams will salute his mentor, comedian Jonathan Winters, who worked with him on Mork and Mindy.

"If you think about each of these people, they had a significant impact on television in general and on a particular generation," executive producer Ken Ehrlich says. "And we’ve asked people whose lives they affected to come and talk about them."

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This will be so emotional.. :( A lot of tears will flow but i´m very curious what Jane will gonna say

Harry Shum Jr. Describes His Return to 'Glee' for the Cory Monteith Tribute

"The whole gang is coming together to celebrate Cory and Finn for the third episode and pay tribute to him,"[Shooting it was] just like what anyone would expect it to be: rough and difficult at times."

But even through the roughness of the experience and the sadness that such an event had to exist in the first place, the 31-year-old dancer appreciated the camaraderie.

"I think it's good for all of us to be there together in this moment," he said. "We're in this room where we spent the last four and a half years together, so it's a great thing for us to just be there together. The writers did a great job writing that episode. It's a really great episode. Beautiful."

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She´s such a sweetheart.. i´m really upset that she isn´t in the Tribute Episode to Finn :(




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I will now watching some of my fave Finn Episodes from Glee

I can´t believe today is the two-month anniversary of Cory’s death. It still hurts so much!

Tonight i will light a candle for Cory

I know i´m not alone. A big BIG Hug to all the Gleeks & Cory Fans out there. We are here for each other no matter where we are in the world... i can feel the love.

Aimee H.: Can't wait to see how Glee honors Cory Monteith. Have you talked to any more castmembers about it?

As a matter of fact, we just chatted with Dot Marie Jones about the episode (her first appearance in the new season), that will pay tribute to Cory and his character Finn. And just like all the other Glee actors we've talked to, Jones said it was a struggle to get through it.

"First of all, it took me two days to read [the script] because I couldn't stop crying, from personal stuff and from the stuff that was written," "It's one of the most beautifully written scripts I've ever read. Ryan Murphy and Brad [Falchuk] and Ian [Brennan] have written something that is just unbelievable." 

When asked how she thinks the fans will react to the episode, Jones promises that everyone will love the tribute. "There's no way they can't," she says.

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Jane Lynch for Speakeasy

"Shooting that episode did bring us as a cast and crew closer together and allowed us to grieve him together,” “We had to stop, breathe, cry and collapse a lot,” ....

Admittedly, Lynch said she wasn’t usually the teary type. “I bring an equanimity to all of my characters but this was a tough one, a good experience and a needed one because we needed to grieve him, but tough,”

more here..


‘Glee’ Tribute Episode Is ‘The Most Beautiful Thing,’ Says Harry Shum Jr.

“I think the writers put a beautiful script together to pay tribute and also have the essence of what Glee really is,” “Not taking away what Glee was or is — I think that’s the most beautiful thing that they were able to put together, able to pay tribute while also keeping the aspect of what Glee is and what made it so special.”

We all know that the Glee cast are a family, so we’re bracing ourselves a great deal of tears, and emotional songs during the episode.

“We’ve come together,” Harry explained of his the cast. “We’ve spent four and a half years together on tours, press, and shooting the show for hours on end — and what comes out of that is family. Sometimes we spent more time with each other than we did spend with our own family, so we hold that very special to our hearts.”

“I think the fans hold something very special in their hearts for Finn,” Harry told us. “He was always the first one to always go to the fans, and sign autographs and take pictures and that would be his favorite thing to do because he knew that was a big part of helping him to get his success and he’s just that type of person.”

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Always love shooting #Glee in my hometown NYC❤ ..

Bow Bridge... memories ..oh this hurts :(

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I can´t believe how time flies.. 8 weeks ago .. still unbelievable

One of Cory Monteith's final films "All The Wrong Reasons" premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. Director Gina Milani dedicated the screening to him. Some of the cast remembered some good times with him during the Q&A after the screening. Gina mentioned that without Cory the film would have not been made.

Cory Monteith was about to surprise — and perhaps shock — fans who thought they knew his work, exploring dark and quite adult themes in the world premieres of two dramas at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Now Gia Milani, the New Brunswick writer-director of All The Wrong Reasons, and Josh C. Waller, Los Angeles-based director of McCanick, face the bittersweet exercise of introducing their films at TIFF minus Monteith, who had so impressed both with his dedication, enthusiasm and professionalism on their sets.

Calgary-born Monteith, who died in July in Vancouver at age 31 of the combined effects of heroin and alcohol, was clearly destined for bigger things than TV’s Glee, where he played football playing singer and musician Finn Hudson, say both Milani and Waller.

All The Wrong Reasons premieres Sept. 8. McCanick premieres Sept. 9.

Monteith’s work has been at TIFF before. He was at the fest in 2011 for the premiere ofCarl Bessai’s ensemble drama, Sisters & Brothers.

Waller said the sudden death of the actor, who had become his friend during the filming of the police drama about a veteran cop (The Green Mile’s David Morse) chasing a young street hustler guarding a potentially explosive secret (Monteith), puts a different perspective on the TIFF premiere.

“No, it’s not going to cloud my experience; bittersweet is the perfect term,” Waller said. “The fact of the matter is regardless of the movie, we lost a friend and so the main thing that bothers me is that this a film that we are all, the team, proud of and part of that team was Cory.”

Waller said Monteith, who went into rehab in March 2013, showed no evidence of his struggles on the Philadelphia set in September 2012.

“I’m broken-hearted that this disease got him,” said Milani, adding she never saw evidence of substance abuse during the August 2012 shoot on All The Wrong Reasons.

“He was a very clean-cut guy,” she said. “There were no issues with him at all. I was tremendously shocked when he went into rehab. I had been working with him for two weeks prior and I saw nothing.”

Monteith was on time and prepared to work and very generous, calling ahead to offer to pick things up or see if she needed anything. He brought candy and treats to the set, spending down time hanging out with Milani’s dad or offering cast and crew rides home.

“I was so impressed with him,” said Milani. “He had tremendous work ethic and was really down to earth, no ego with that guy at all.”

Monteith would fly to L.A. to work on Glee, then turn around and be back on the Fredericton, N.B., set (he did the same back-and-forth on McCanick). Since much of the shoot took place in a Zellers store, that meant working overnight. He never complained.

“He talked a lot to me about how he liked playing Finn and loved that character,” said Milani, adding Monteith said he was grateful for the doors the role had opened.

“But he did want to try something new,” she added. “He felt he had reached a certain point and he had all the fame he could want and all the money he could want. He could stretch and take (artistic) chances and feel safe.”

“I can’t believe this fell into my lap,” was what Monteith said about playing ambitious big-box store manager and conflicted husband James Ascher in All The Wrong Reasons, according to Milani.

He was enthusiastic about the role, laughing about how familiar some of the scenes were thanks to his past as a Walmart greeter. “I am this guy! I know this!” Milani says Monteith told her.

Milani’s ensemble drama about how tragedies affect the lives of four employees sees Monteith as a man who wants to support his troubled wife (Polytechnique’s Karine Vanasse), who is suffering psychological damage from witnessing a tragedy. But he’s ambitious and her frailty holds him back, while their lack of intimacy leaves him open to temptation from a party-girl cashier (Emily Hampshire.) Kevin Zegers (The Mortal Instruments) also stars.

Monteith played a far different character in McCanick, wearing a long brunette wig and a hoodie to portray the teenage Simon Weeks, a kid living on the streets reluctantly surviving by prostitution. He also plays an older version of Simon, now an ex-con on the run from pursuing cop Mack McCanick (Morse).

Simon was the last role cast for McCanick, a film Waller started working on with screenwriter and best friend Daniel Noah in 2005. The Hobbit star Elijah Wood is the third partner in their production company.

Monteith shared an agent with Morse. She “pushed” Monteith for the role, said Waller.

“I had a specific type in mind and Cory didn’t necessarily fit into that type,” said Waller of casting Monteith, adding he was after a “skinny, waifish, androgynous, weird druggie look” for the character, someone who could play Simon both as a 17-year-old and several years older. The handsome Glee star didn’t fit with that.

“When I finally decided to meet with him he had read the script several times and (worked on) the character and had done the work,” said Waller.

“Zero ego and it was all him pitching me on what he could do if he was given the chance to do the character,” he added. “That was endearing and he won me over.”

Both directors were able to screen their films for Monteith in Los Angeles in June, about a month before he died.

“He was excited, and he thought it was really intense and he hadn’t been portrayed like that before,” said Milani, adding she hasn’t been able to watch the film since Monteith’s death.

“It’s confusing,” she said. “You’re happy one second and then, the people you want to share with aren’t there or you feel badly talking about it … he did have a fantastic talent.”

Waller said Monteith was “very proud of the work he did and he was excited to go share his work and the fruit of his labour to the world.”

Added Waller, “the main thing I’m sad about is he’s not going to share that experience and have people slap him on the back and say, ‘You did an amazing job.’ I think he was just getting started and that’s what makes it such a bummer, just getting started in life.”

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Variety: How is “Glee” going to be able to fill the void left by the death of Cory Monteith?

Jane Lynch: I don’t think you fill a void. We’re going to honor his memory in our third episode of the season, one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever read written by Ryan and Brad (Falchuk) and Ian, the three writers who wrote the first season who are the beating heart of this show. Speaking of beating hearts, Cory was, in life and his character, the most empathetic, heart-centered person I’ve ever met. And he’s going to be missed big time.


As always Jane beautiful beautiful words !!! I tear up every time she´s saying something about Cory.

And here the Video Interview: http://tmblr.co/Zb-t9vuJHzww
Just listen, she always finds the right words !

I like the colors ~ One of my fave Monchele Pics



And this one of course... Not long ago :(