Cory Monteith and the Glee cast adventures in NYC. Cory is way too adorable!

Chris Colfer, Lea Michele, Matthew Morrison, Cory Monteith, Jane Lynch and the creators of Glee attended a screening of the show at Outfest 2009. I’ve added some photos to the gallery so make sure you check them out!:

Set your DVR for Friday July 10th at 8:30 on The N. Cory is going to be in the second episode that airs immediately after the first episode and you don’t want to miss it!

The stars of the FOX series “Glee,” including Matthew Morrison, Lea Michele, Cory Monteith, Chris Colfer and Jane Lynch, will take part in a panel discussion about the new television program July 18 at the Directors Guild of America.

The discussion — which is part of Outfest 2009, the 27th Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Film Festival — will be preceded by a never-before-broadcast episode of “Glee” at 1:30 PM.

Also set for the question-and-answer session are “Glee” co-creator and writer Ian Brennan and executive producer Dante Di Loreto.

“Glee,” according to press notes, “follows an optimistic teacher who – against all odds and the wishes of his wife – attempts to restore his school’s glee club to its former glory, while helping a group of aspiring underdogs realize their true star potential.” “Glee” makes its official premiere Sept. 16 at 9 PM ET on FOX.

Outfest will also present a panel discussion with the talent and creative team of HBO’s “Big Love” (July 19 at 5 PM at DGA 1) and will screen the Lifetime drama “Prayers for Bobby,” starring Sigourney Weaver and Ryan Kelley (July 19 at noon at DGA 1).

For more information and a complete listing of films in the Festival, log on to www.Outfest.org or call (213) 480-7065.

source:  playbill.com

Glee and some of the actors have been nominated for some Teen Choice Awards!  Congrats Glee and the cast!  The awards will film on Sunday August 9 and air on Monday August 10 on FOX.

Choice TV: Breakout Show

90210
Fringe
Glee
JONAS
The Secret Life of the American Teenager

Choice TV: Breakout Star Female

Demi Lovato, Sonny with a Chance
AnnaLynne McCord, 90210
Lea Michele, Glee
Chelsea Staub, JONAS
Anna Torv, Fringe

Choice TV: Breakout Star Male

Frankie Jonas, JONAS
Daren Kagasoff, The Secret Life of the American Teenager
Danny McBride, Eastbound & Down
Cory Monteith, Glee
Tristan Wilds, 90210

Fox is teasing us all summer long with short promos leading up to the recently announced premiere of Glee on Sept. 16, but they’re not the only ones pulling our legs.

In the promo above you see not one, not two, but three different makeout sessions—two of which include the illustrious love triangle known as Quinn, Finn and Rachel.

Remember back in the pilot that Rachel Berry (Lea Michele) said the rest of the glee club expected her and Finn (Cory Monteith) to become an item? Unfortunately, he’s already with bitchy cheerleader Quinn Fabray (Dianna Agron). Stay tuned for scoop straight from the stars on how that will play out this season.

Take a look at the new promo above and keep your eyes peeled at 54 seconds to see the possible turning point in the love triangle. Also, take the poll below on whether you think that’s a real kiss going down between Finn and Rachel or one that’s totally (and tearfully) staged.

source: http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/watch_with_kristin/b129301_glee_are_finn_rachel_getting_cozy.html

Cory Monteith’s drop-out story is the kind your high-school guidance counsellor wouldn’t tell you — but here he is, playing a singing, dancing high-school student in the irony-laden new Fox TV series Glee.

A backstage irony is that the 27-year-old Monteith himself quit high school in Grade 9 as a Victoria teen, with no solid plans except the feeling that school just wasn’t for him.

“High school was boring, it wasn’t what I wanted to do,” says Monteith over the phone from Laguna Beach, where he’s taking a three-day weekend away from filming in nearby Los Angeles.

“I didn’t want to do math and all the other stuff they teach you, that we know now is unnecessary.”

Monteith had a knack for drumming, and played in bar bands between dead-end jobs. By age 20 he was in Nanaimo, splitting his time between cab-driving and roofing — and reading a lot in his off-hours — when a friend of a friend who worked in casting said he should try acting.

“I guess she figured here’s a nice-looking kid who’s personable and can express himself.”

There followed a couple of acting classes with a visiting teacher from Vancouver, who urged him to come to the city and give it a try.

“It never occurred to me that you could make a living doing that — which was my focus at the time, trying to pay the rent and eat. I was pretty broke. Up to that point I hadn’t been good at anything.”

Making a living won’t be an issue now. Fox aired the Glee pilot in a high-profile timeslot following the American Idol finale in mid-May, and plans to air 13 more episodes in the fall, in a spot after So You Think You Can Dance. It will also air on Global. The show, from Nip/Tuck creator Ryan Murphy, follows the misfit members of a high school glee club, with Monteith as a jock essentially blackmailed into joining. The show contrasts the sunny singing and dancing with more caustic plot turns.

When he first got to Vancouver, Monteith slept on a few couches before getting a job at a cake shop alongside another then-aspiring actor, 90210′s Dustin Mulligan. The two got an apartment and practised their lines as the roles started coming in.

Monteith’s opener was one line in an episode of Stargate: Atlantis, and he gave up the cake job for good after he did back-to-back episodes of Smallville and Supernatural. A seven-episode arc on TV’s Kyle XY in 2006 cemented his career.

“By that time it was clear it was going the way I wanted it to go,” he says. “It was the first thing I did that needed network approval to get the job.”

Glee creator Murphy, taking a lighter turn away from Nip/Tuck’s death and disfigurement, mounted a North America-wide search last year for singing-dancing-acting talents.

Monteith taped an audition for the show and sent it off to L.A.

“I imagine it was on a very high stack of tapes just like it,” he says. “The first I heard from them was thank you, but no thank you. I think they were still looking for a Broadway triple-threat guy. I can sing a little bit, but dancing, this is all new to me.”

But when that search came up dry last summer, the L.A. casting people called again. This time, Monteith taped an audition that included a sequence of him drumming his way around a kitchen on pots and tupperware, to show off his musical chops. They liked that audition, but not enough to fly him down to L.A. for the final selection.

So he drove his beater Honda Civic south, pausing during the 20-hour drive for a nap on the side of an Oregon highway, and found himself in a room with 25 other guys up for the part. Two days later he had the part. They wrote his drumming skills into the character.

His 12- to 15-hour shooting days of acting, choreography and singing — each episode has a new musical number — end in the fall when the first 13 episodes wrap. If Fox approves, a further nine episodes will start filming in December.

Monteith says he might try to do a movie in the break, or come back to the place he still keeps in Vancouver or just travel. During the lean years he learned to be careful with money, taking acting classes during the times between acting jobs.

“Working at the cake shop I was living on a thousand bucks a month,” he says. “When they pay you thousands of dollars to be on an episode of a TV show, I was like, I can live on this for years.”

Even a high-school guidance counsellor would approve of that.

gschaefer@theprovince.com