I know the feeling. I first checked to see if it was hoax...
It's funny, these people, ones we have never met, their deaths truly affect so many of us. We love they characters, we quote their lines, they slowly weave their ways into our daily lives. We remember scenes we've watched with friends, family. Movies or music we've put on to help us through the day. When we lose one, we feel like we've lost a little bit of ourselves and we mourn that loss. We mourn never knowing what other great things they could have done if they had had only more time.