Patrick Swayze Dies

[Lady L]

Patrick Swayze, the hunky actor who danced his way into viewers' hearts with "Dirty Dancing" and then broke them with "Ghost," died Monday after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 57.

"Patrick Swayze passed away peacefully today with family at his side after facing the challenges of his illness for the last 20 months," said a statement released Monday evening by his publicist, Annett Wolf. No other details were given.

Fans of the actor were saddened to learn in March 2008 that Swayze was suffering from a particularly deadly form of cancer.
He had kept working despite the diagnosis, putting together a memoir with his wife and shooting "The Beast," an A&E drama series for which he had already made the pilot. It drew a respectable 1.3 million viewers when the 13 episodes ran in 2009, but A&E said it had reluctantly decided not to renew it for a second season.

Swayze said he opted not to use painkilling drugs while making "The Beast" because they would have taken the edge off his performance. He acknowledged that time might be running out given the grim nature of the disease.

When he first went public with the illness, some reports gave him only weeks to live, but his doctor said his situation was "considerably more optimistic" than that.

"I'd say five years is pretty wishful thinking," Swayze told ABC's Barbara Walters in early 2009. "Two years seems likely if you're going to believe statistics. I want to last until they find a cure, which means I'd better get a fire under it."

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[Beorn]

Does this mean we will be getting more re-runs of Dirty Dancing? How many times can a man be forced to watch it before he wants to gouge his eyes out with a paper straw?

Shame though, he was an icon.

[The Lawspeaker]

No one has the eternal life. I hope that his last hours were far less painful then his illness.
Rest in peace.

[Lady L]

Does this mean we will be getting more re-runs of Dirty Dancing? How many times can a man be forced to watch it before he wants to gouge his eyes out with a paper straw?

I am quite looking forward to this!!! :D!


Shame though, he was an icon.

He was and seemed to be a very sincere man. His poor wife :( They had been together for ages.

[Lady L]

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[Brynhild]

One of the few decent blokes in the business, indeed! R.I.P.

[Cato]

:eek::(

He was in one of my favorite Cold War-era movies: Red Dawn.

[Lenny]

A lifetime heavy smoker.

Let this be a lesson to Apricityites.



Swayze has been a 60-a-day smoker for years, and research shows that smokers are twice as likely to get pancreatic cancer as non-smokers.

Rhita McNair, a close friend of Swayze and his wife of 32 years, Lisa Niemi, said that like the long-running Marlborough Man cowboy cigarette ads, Swayze kept smoking even as he enjoyed the fresh air during horseback rides on his 17,000-acre ranch near Las Vegas.

Miss McNair said that during a recent cattle drive, Swayze looked as though he'd lost about two stones in weight, but "sadly he was still smoking."

link (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-533432/Patrick-Swayze-smoking-despite-diagnosed-pancreatic-cancer.html)

[Sally]

Oh dear, I remember when Dirty Dancing was just released! Makes me feel kinda old, since some folks here weren't even born yet. :blink:

Well, rest in peace, Patrick Swayze. He delivered my favourite line in Dirty Dancing:

"Nobody puts Baby in a corner!" :D

http://i30.tinypic.com/21o6dea.jpg

[Goidelic]

Afaik he was of Colonial English ancestry and quite a decent actor, and starred in some pretty good movies. ;):)

[Atlas]

RIP I liked him a lot. We all knew he was about to pass away some of these days.

57 is too young to die. :(

[Cato]

I liked Road House.

[SuuT]

LOL. What the fuck ever.

[Frigga]

Hey, I liked him! :( I'm sad that he died. :pout:

[SuuT]

Just another DOOoooooooooooood. What did he do to exemplify your life beyond the momemt that he did....?

[Lady L]

Just another DOOoooooooooooood. What did he do to exemplify your life beyond the momemt that he did....?

He danced beautifully :love

[Frigga]

I have always had a crush on him ever since the movie Ghost. I didn't see Dirty Dancing until I was a teenager, as my mom thought that I wasn't mature enough for it, as there were a lot of sexual parts to it, and I was "sheltered". :rolleyes:

[Æmeric]

I saw Dirty Dancing & Ghost & wish I could've weaseled out of both.:rolleyes:

Red Dawn was ok but as I stated in another post, the premise of the movie was ridiculous.

[Fortis in Arduis]

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2093/2315931243_ae42dd83b8.jpg

This film was different.

[Frigga]

BWAHAHAHA!! To John Woo, Thanks For Everything was so funny! :pound: :D

[007]

I saw Dirty Dancing & Ghost & wish I could've weaseled out of both.:rolleyes:

Red Dawn was ok but as I stated in another post, the premise of the movie was ridiculous.

What about Roadhouse? You gotta give him credit for Roadhouse. :thumb001:

[Birka]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RajNvJ3bCU&feature=fvw

I cannot find the original SNL skit. This is the best one I can find.

[Gwynyvyr]

Oh dear, I remember when Dirty Dancing was just released! Makes me feel kinda old, since some folks here weren't even born yet. :blink:

Well, rest in peace, Patrick Swayze. He delivered my favourite line in Dirty Dancing:

"Nobody puts Baby in a corner!" :D

http://i30.tinypic.com/21o6dea.jpg

Found elsewhere online...I KNOW this is bad, but it was late at night when I found it...I was tired and *punchy* and it gave me the giggles...
http://www.lamebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/swayze_3.jpg

[LouisFerdinand]

Patrick starred as Orry Main in North and South.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAeeYp1-elU