RIP Naya and Kelly and Nick
Tuesday, July 14, 2020 at 12:01PM 2020 continues to be a hellscape year. Apologies that we can't give these recently departed talents larger tributes. They will be missed for their contributions to the arts that we love so much here at TFE.
• CNN As you've probably heard the very talented Naya Rivera ("Santana" on Glee) went missing days ago. Her body has now been found, police learning that she saved her son just before drowning. She was just 33.
• Pinkvilla The Glee cast came together at Lake Piru as tribute (on the anniversary of another Glee star's death. This is when we lost Cory Monteith in 2013)
• People Kelly Preston, John Travolta's wife, and an actress of numerous 80s and 90s movies, has also died. She passed away from breast cancer.
• The Guardian pays tribute to Preston with a photogallery of her biggest movie roles
• NYT Grant Imahara, an engineer who worked on the Star Wars prequels and other Hollywood blockbusters and co-hosted "Mythbusters" has died from a brain aneuryism. He was just 49.
• NYT Ragaa el-Gedaway, Egyptian cinema star, has died from COVID-19
• ABC Tony-nominated Nick Cordero, who we just loved on stage -- for our money he even surpassed Chazz Palminterri's performance in Bullets Over Broadway when he played the Oscar-nominated role in the stage version -- has finally succumbed to COVID-19 after months of a torturous struggle.
Reader Comments (12)
Very saddened by the passing of Naya Rivera. She could’ve been huge. She lobbied for the role of Anita in the WSS remake, I wish she would’ve got it so she can be memorialized one last time.
At least she got to sing America and A Boy Like That on Glee. What a tremendous voice.
So many sad deaths here. RIP to all.
May they all rest in peace.
Scientology strikes again. Why do they constantly think they can cure themselves with their mind?
I had not heard of death of Grant Imahara. I used to watch Mythbusters all the time as kid, this is so sad.
These are all such untimely deaths, but the Naya Rivera story is just especially tragic. Her little son. My heart goes out to him and his family.
I didn't write that Nathaniel R.
In all seriousness.... fuck 2020.
At one point I only kept watching Glee just for Naya. I never bought her storyline but her musical numbers were magnetic. Hollywood still doesn't know what to do with latinas.
Kelly Preston movies in the 80s were the ones that we would rent on a on. She was fierce and sexy in Jerry Maguire too.
Me/they are right though.
I just saw an ad for Hamilton before a Youtube clip, are the shots in the ad from the actual Disney+ presentation? Because it's looking better than Give 'em Hell, Harry! (1975) and, by virtue of dynamism, better than Othello (1965). Seems like you might have been a bit dismissive on TFE MVP Claudio's points in the earlier thread on the topic.
All sad deaths. I was particularly touched by Nick Cordero's passing. Such a struggle. Life can be cruel. May they all RIP.