Via ExtraTV: One month before England is set to go to the polls, a probable suicide bomber set off a device at the end of an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, killing 22 people and injuring at least dozens.
I worked with Ariana when she was a teen actress and aspiring pop singer, and met and went to lunch with her, her family (including Frankie, who was always very kind to me), and I'm just so sad thinking of all the young people who must surely be among the dead and wounded, young people simply enjoying an apolitical, escapist concert.
It gives such a feeling of helplessness, because as big as the world is, as porous as the events we attend every day are, lunatics can strike nearly anywhere and any time, and as demonstrated here, the venues can be completely surprising.
My heart goes out to everyone affected.