My son, a lifelong fan of Star Wars, offered as explanation of recent events that there'd been "a ripple in the Force". It sure seems that way, with the news being filled with so many deaths of famous people.
I suppose it may have started when we lost Catherine O'Hara, who made us laugh at almost anything.
And then the longtime voice of hockey in Vancouver, Jim Robson as well as actors James Van Der Beek and Bud Cort.
Cort didn't like the fact that his role in Harold and Maude made him seem typecast. And for his sake, I'm sad that happened to him, but will always love his portrayal of Harold (though I also loved him in M*A*S*H and Brewster McCloud, those wonderful films by Robert Altman).
But those faraway deaths pale in light of the hideous tragedy at Tumbler Ridge here in northern BC. Twelve-year-olds murdered. At school. Beyond heartbreaking.
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