'Glee' gives Cory Monteith a 'beautiful' sendoff
Glee mourns one of
its own Thursday in a tribute to Cory Monteith, who died in a Vancouver hotel
in July of a heroin and alcohol overdose at age 31. Monteith's character,
McKinley High quarterback and glee-club member Finn Hudson, has died two weeks
before Thursday's episode (Fox, 9 p.m. ET/PT) opens. The cause is unspecified
-- "that doesn't matter," former classmate Kurt (Chris Colfer) says
-- but his high-school family gathers to grieve.
The episode opens with the cast singing Seasons of Love from Broadway's Rent. Among other musical
highlights, already released online: The Pretenders' I'll Stand By You (performed by Mercedes); James
Taylor's Fire &
Rain (Sam and Artie); Bruce
Springsteen's No Surrender (Puck); The Band Perry's If I Die Young (Santana); and Bob Dylan's Make You Feel My Love,
sung by Rachel Berry (Lea Michele, Monteith's real-life love). Monteith missed
last season's final episodes due to a stint in rehab, and this fall's openers
were dedicated to a previously planned Beatles tribute, with no mention of
Finn. After Thursday's tribute, the show goes on hiatus for baseball playoffs
until Nov. 7.
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