RIP

[*Anya*]

Originally Posted by mustangjeano

I am speachless--will the hating ever stop?

Originally Posted by Kobi

Both People and TMZ are reporting Cory Monteith was privately cremated Tuesday in Canada.

Sometimes hatred is perpetuated based on inaccuracies and the subsequent reactions to them.

Sometimes, we need to take a step back, breathe, wait for the facts to sort themselves out.

"“PRAISE GOD ALMIGHTY for killing Cory Monteith — a wicked f**-enabling sinner! Westboro Baptist Church to picket his funeral,” the church wrote to Chris Colfer, who plays gay chorus member Kurt Hummel, as well as several other cast members."

http://legalpronews.findlaw.com/article/08081dCdlj1jA

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/0...n_3598346.html


Yes it is hard to believe, but true.

Multiple legitimate sources, including GLADD, have documented Westboro's tweets.

I am glad to read that the family averted anything of the sort from occurring by cremation (which may have been his expressed preference previously).

[Words]

On a side note...

I just took a look - my first - at the Westboro Baptist Church website.

I literally feel sick.

Words

[CherylNYC]

From the New York Times:

Laurie Frink,Trumpeter and Brass Instructor to Many, Dies at 61
By NATE CHINEN
Published: July 17, 2013

Laurie Frink, an accomplished trumpeter who became a brass instructor of widespread influence and high regard, died on Saturday at her home in Manhattan. She was 61.

The cause was cancer of the bile duct, said the classical violist Lois Martin, her partner of 25 years.

Ms. Frink built her trumpet career as a section player, starting when few women were accepted in those ranks. She worked extensively on Broadway and with the Benny Goodman Orchestra, the Mel Lewis Orchestra and Gerry Mulligan’s Concert Jazz Band, often playing lead...



http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/18/ar...dayspaper&_r=0

[Greyson]

Pioneering journalist Helen Thomas dies at 92

By CALVIN WOODWARD
Associated Press
Published: Saturday, Jul. 20, 2013 - 7:47 am

Thomas was at the forefront of women's achievements in journalism. She was one of the first female reporters to break out of the White House "women's beat" — the soft stories about presidents' kids, wives, their teas and their hairdos — and cover the hard news on an equal footing with men.

She became the first female White House bureau chief for a wire service when UPI named her to the position in 1974. She was also the first female officer at the National Press Club, where women had once been barred as members and she had to fight for admission into the 1959 luncheon speech where Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev warned: "We will bury you."

The belligerent Khrushchev was an unlikely ally in one sense. He had refused to speak at any Washington venue that excluded women, she said.

Thomas fought, too, for a more open presidency, resisting all moves by a succession of administrations to restrict press access.

"People will never know how hard it is to get information," Thomas told an interviewer, "especially if it's locked up behind official doors where, if politicians had their way, they'd stamp TOP SECRET on the color of the walls."

Born in Winchester, Ky., to Lebanese immigrants, Thomas was the seventh of nine children. It was in high school, after working on the student newspaper, that she decided she wanted to become a reporter.

Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2013/07/20/558...#storylink=cpy

[Kobi]

I grew up watching Helen Thomas. She was a unique character and well respected by her peers and the politicians she covered. I had a deep respect for her diplomacy, honesty, and way with words when asking leading questions.

She was a pioneer and role model for women of my era.

[Kobi]

LONDON (Reuters) - British comedian Mel Smith, who became a household name for a series of television sketch shows in the 1970s and 80s which colleagues said had inspired a generation of comics, has died of a heart attack, his agent said on Saturday.

Smith, who died on Friday aged 60, found fame starring in hugely popular shows "Not The Nine O'clock News" and "Alas Smith and Jones" and went on to direct the films "Bean" and "The Tall Guy".

"I still can't believe this has happened," said Griff Rhys Jones, his comedy partner in his best-known TV shows. "To everybody who ever met him, Mel was a force for life. He was a gentleman and a scholar, a gambler and a wit."

Together, they formed Talkback, a highly successful independent TV production house that spawned many hit British comedies including the "Ali G" series, which gave Sacha Baron Cohen his first big television break.

Talkback was sold to Pearson TV in 2000 for 62 million pounds ($95 million).

"Mel Smith's contribution to British comedy cannot be overstated," said Tony Hall, the Director General of the BBC.

"On screen he helped to define a new style of comedy from the late 1970s that continues to influence people to this day."

He played The Albino in The Princess Bride.