[Vermont Lt]

Cory is in the demographic.

[cripplecreek]

I wouldn’t know Cory Monteith if I stepped over his drug sodden carcass in an alley.

[GeronL]

people still watch that stuff?

[Lancey Howard]

Cory what?
Good grief, am I ever out of the loop.

And I think I’m glad I’m out of the loop.

[MamaB]

Who is Cory? Never heard of him. Always enjoyed Jack in any show he was in. Who was his wife who used to appear on a game show? Was it Brett ????

[VRW Conspirator]

Sticking a gun to my head could not get me to care any less for this Hollywood squabble.

[Vendome]

Had two friends, whi are very pc into gay, tell me about this dude.

I had to look him up as I had no idea who he was.

F’ing outrage is right and how I voted on TMZ, which was 95% of voting opinions.

Apparently he wasn’t gay but, was happy to play the poster boy giving relevancy and validation to those who think of themselves as LGBT.

Also, his so callled girlfriend wasn’t into him anymore and was seeing someone else at the time of his death and maybe playing in snow, at a party, a week after his passing.

Not that I begrudge anyone living their life and having fun.

Finally, it looks more like he was less of a drug addict than a junkie.

Drug addicts typically function and mostly have their chit together.

Junkies are usually in and out of rehab/jail, do nit really manage their addiction/life well and die from their desperate need to get high.

Doesn’t sound so fun to me.

[JennysCool]

They don’t have enough spare moments in this usually-bloated telecast to honor both? Sheesh.

[IronJack]

Does anyone still actually watch these vapid awards shows? Who wants to see a bunch of pampered poodles breaking their own arms patting themselves on the back?

[InvisibleChurch]

The Emmy must be very important to Jack Klugman’s survivors.

[dfwgator]

Says it all about Hollywood, honor some frickin’ drug addict.

[SamAdams76]

It is absolutely an outrage. Now let me tell you about my first crush on a TV actress. It was Suzanne Crough , who played Tracy Partridge on the Partridge Family. Now before you start thinking I'm some kind of pedophile or something, I was only 8 years old when the Partridge Family debuted on September 25, 1970 (43 years ago on Wednesday!). So that put Suzanne and I in roughly the same age bracket.

What a different time that was back in September of 1970. The Beatles had just broken up and Vietnam was getting ugly. But what did I care? I was getting my Suzanne Crough fix every Friday night at 8:30 (after having to get through "The Brady Bunch" and "Nanny And The Professor") so the rest of the world really didn't matter - except for maybe my third grade teacher who looked uncannily like Shirley Partridge, which pretty much made her Suzanne/Tracy's mom too in my eyes.

So desperate was I to get close to Susan that at one point in early 1971, I penned a letter to Reuben Kincaid, manager of the Partridge Family, (with a blind copy to Danny Partridge), letting him know that I was taking clarinet lessons on Saturday mornings at the church rectory.

Could the Partridge Family use a clarinet player? I certainly thought so at the time. If anything, I could at take the place of the mostly uselss Chris Partridge. I mean, that kid couldn't play the drums worth a crap!

So I let Reuben Kincaid know that I could be available to join the band on tour "at any time." While waiting for a response, I would be found out in my back yard, carving my initials with "TP" on a tree. (If you were to go to my childhood home, you would probably still find our initials carved on some of those trees.)

After about 8 weeks, I finally got a response to my letter but it wasn't from Reuben Kincaid. Instead, it was a generic letter from "ABC" thanking me for my interest in the show and inviting me to join the Partridge Family fan club, which included a quarterly newsletter, an official Partridge Family pin, and a glossy 8x10 photo of David Cassidy ("Keith Partridge"). Nothing about my request to join the band and absolutely nothing about Tracy. They were treating me like I was some 10-year-old girl!

Remember this was decades before the Internet so I couldn't find out any news about my Tracy, for all I know, she never even knew I existed, even though I thought about her every day for about three years (until I started to focus more on Susan Partridge). But for that period of time, Suzanne/Tracy was the girl of my dreams. She will never know what she missed out on.

[ColdOne]

Interesting a TMZ story.