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"  Photo: Getty Images When Cory Monteith died in July, his maker a lethal cocktail of heroin and alcohol, Hollywood and millions of adoring fans grieved. The outpouring for the 31-year-old actor, whose only significant footprint was his portrayal of athlete-turned-acapella superstar Finn Hudson on Fox&amp;#039;s Glee, outlasted Hollywood&amp;#039;s typically tweet-length attention span. And while it&amp;#039;s been months since his tragic passing, it continues to strike a chord\u2014so much so that Jane Lynch paid a touching tribute to the late actor (and boyfriend of his co-star Lea Michele) at the 2013 Emmy Awards. &amp;quot;Cory was a beautiful soul\u2026 His warm and open-hearted quality was no act,&amp;quot; Lynch said as she publicly honored Monteith. Addressing his fans she added, &amp;quot;This gifted young man was worthy of your love\u2026 and if you had known his goofy, breezy sense of humor, his unbridled sense of generosity, you&amp;#039;d have loved him even more.&amp;quot;  I witnessed that goofy sense of humor first hand. In February of 2010, on the eve of season two of Glee, my former boss, the late Annabel Tollman, styled the April 2010 cover of Rolling Stone, which featured the cast of the buzzy new show. I&amp;#039;ll never forget meeting Monteith: After a weekend in Vegas with friends, he&amp;#039;d driven a loaner hot rod directly to the L.A. set just in time for his early morning call time. (Now I&amp;#039;ve been around plenty of people on the tail end of a Sin City bender, and he was most certainly not hung over. In fact, he was very vocal about his ability to avoid temptation.)  As I fit him in a variety of Rockwell era-inspired looks\u2014baseball tees, worn-in denim, jackets with leather patches\u2014he fussed with the too-small everything. &amp;quot;Does this make me look hippy?&amp;quot; he asked as he gestured to his meaty upper thighs. &amp;quot;No,&amp;quot; I lied, the same way I would if a friend asked me if I&amp;#039;d noticed her zit. He didn&amp;#039;t look &amp;quot;hippy,&amp;quot; per se; he was just made in the real world. When Lea Michele would stride by, her sample size mini skirts clamped down the back to make them fit, she appeared, by comparison, Lilliputian. The day was a long one; photographer Mark Seliger, who famously shot the Red Hot Chili Peppers nude for the cover of Rolling Stone, demanded endless amounts of energy from the dozen cast members. And despite the rigorous schedule\u2014we must have shot 10 different set-ups\u2014Monteith remained as animated as a first grader. When Seliger lamented the lack of energy in a certain frame, the 6&amp;#039;3&amp;quot; actor would leap to his feet and offer up a jovial &amp;quot;Woo!&amp;quot; It never failed to make Jane Lynch, Matthew Morrison, and Dianna Agron (not to mention the rest of the crew) laugh. If you look at that cover now, the cast crowding around an old school cruiser, you&amp;#039;ll see Monteith in the background, hamming it up in a vintage varsity sweater I found at New York&amp;#039;s Southpaw, an American Apparel henley, and 7 for All Mankind jeans. Just as it was my job to keep tabs on exactly what he was wearing, it was his job to appear Finn-esque: happy and in control at all times. It was a shtick he pulled it off with aplomb. As I was packing up the last of the wardrobe trunks, Monteith, demonstrating the inclusiveness that Lynch also touched on, invited me and the other assistant to celebrate with the cast. The invitation was flimsy but not superficial; we could have gone if we wanted. And despite the alluring idea of partying with the hottest stars on TV, we declined. He tossed off a reassuring smile\u2014no harm done\u2014and made for his shiny new rental.  I never did see Monteith again, but as I continue to watch Glee with unfettered enthusiasm\u2014despite its declining ratings and the gaping hole left by the absence of its bleeding heart\u2014I will always remember him just how the rest of America does: as the one who got away. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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