So sorry to hear about Leonard Cohen.... another bright light inside this dark valley was extinguished...

I can´t believe it.

Choir Alexander yesterday and now George Michael.... 
RIP George.

And R.I.P Carry Fisher. 

What are you up to, 2016? How many heroes can you cram into one year - or even the last couple of days of the year?

That´s awful news.... 
Princess Leia was my hero when I was young....
RIP Carrie, you´re gone too soon.... 

I know people die but this year has been ridiculous! 

RIP to all those lost.

I'm not expecting an outpouring of sadness from you other members here, since this celebrity, as far as I'm aware, is really famous in Canada but not elsewhere.  All the same, I'm very sad that Stuart McLean has died.  He wrote and told stories based around his characters he had created - an average Canadian family and their friends.  The title of the stories, in general, was called Vinyl Café after the record store that one of the main characters, Dave, owned.  Most of the stories revolved around him, his wife, and his kids, but other characters, like his neighbours, friends, and extended family were in various stories.  Much of them were funny, but they could also be touching and tear-inducing.  Stuart McLean had a unique way of telling his stories out loud and wrote so many that were all really good.  He would tell them on a weekly radio show but also published books of collections of them and recorded them on CD to buy.  I have many memories of listening to them with my family at home or on car rides.  I didn't always have time to listen to the radio show, but it was always so good.  The characters feel like people you know, and as time passed in real life so would time pass in the stories, the kids would grow up and have different adventures as that would happen.  I'm sad that we won't get to hear any more about them.  Stuart McLean really was a fixture in Canadian culture.

Bill Paxton has died 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-39097834?post_id=10154401940436527_10154401941296527#_=_

And he was only 61. "Apollo 13" is one of those movies I can watch again and again, and that has a lot to do with the great ensemble - Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton and Kevin Bacon are great together. 

I also remember him from Titanic. That's sad!

Only 61. It's always sad when life is too short.