September 15, 2009 07:00 PM
R.I.P. Patrick Swayze, Star of 'Dirty Dancing' and 'Ghost'
Patrick Swayze, 57, after a long battle with pancreatic cancer.
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I dragged a bunch of teenage boys to see it. They thought it was going to be "gay".
At the end we were in the car and one of them said, "Maybe we should go check out the soundtrack?"
They loved the film...and so did I.
Thank you Patrick Swayze.....
"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn
The Outsiders? One of my favorite movies ever.
i liked him in
"To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar
Red motherfuckin Dawn!
And the Outsiders.
Point Break...
the rest of them were chick flicks I never saw.
That Swayze, Welsley Snipes and John Leguazamo were in ?
I know I mispelled John L's last name. sorry bout that.
But the three of them were drag queens. Funniest movie in a long time.
Justice Ginsberg also has pancreatic cancer.
RIP Pat.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert is far superior a film.
much better movie, but it WAS done by drag queens and gays, and Swayze, et al, were/are straight playing gay.
I have nothing against Swayze, I just don't thing Wong Foo was that great.
Here's Swayze's best bit, although he's not the star:
Swayze and Farley - Chippendales slo-mo
Here's the original complete skit
Guy Pierce, Hugo Weaving and Terence Stamp are all gay? I must inform them immediately!
Y'know, It's been a while so I forgot about that.....yep all straight and married or have been to women.
Just goes to show that the best gay characters you see in TV or film are more often than not played by straight men.
Poorly played gay characters are usually gay actors or in the closet ones.
Odd but true.
My bad. Thanks Scottie for the correction.
To Wong Foo - Thanks For Everything Julie Newmar.
To Wong Foo: Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar
Great flick. All three were very convincing and well lost in character.
"Someday somebody related to some of these sufferers, these victims, these collaterally damaged souls, may try to kill you. And I have to tell you, I think you’ll have it coming." - Christopher Cooper
Thanks folks.
For three macho guys to play those characters, and pull it off was hilarious.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
I've read where all three jumped at the chance to play challenging comedic roles. Priscilla is a better film, but Wong Foo is just fun as hell.
in both Wong Foo and Ghost. For Ghost they wanted Kevin Kline-I can't see it. Patrick read for the part several times to get it.
For Wong Foo, Patrick said that the casting director told him he was way to macho to play a drag queen, but I have always thought his performance was excellent.
Veda Boheme kicking Virgil's ass was priceless.
I pledge allegiance to the Constitution of the United States of America, and to the republic which it established, one nation from many peoples, promising liberty and justice for all
Indeed.
Only when the last tree has died
and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught
will we realize we cannot eat money.
I enjoyed it far more than expected.
Some stuff you can't make up!
now he is an irl ghost
That is pretty prophetic. He starred in a movie called ghost and now he's dead.
are you on something this evening?
"prophetic"--are you never going to die?
Dadams, I think the tongue-in-cheek punctuation thingie in the Subject line indicates that Curti was trying to be funny.
And it IS really funny, if you sort of get into the context of it... like those chain letters we used to get: "A sea captain in the Coral Sea ignored this letter and fourteen years later HE DIED."
I'm always on something dadams.
He was in a film about being a ghost 20 years ago, and now he's dead!!!! It MUST be a curse!
;)
I met Patrick back in the late 1970's when we took dance classes at Bobby Banas' studio. Banas did the choreography for Skatetown, and he told all of us that could roller skate to come on down to the set (which at the time of filming was the Hollywood Paladium). I always had my four-wheels in the trunk of my sports car back then, and my friend and I would park it, pull out the boombox and start skating, whether it was in Venice, Long Beach, or Palm Springs.
Anyway, that was Patrick's first movie, and his skating was amazing. You have to remember there were no inline skates at that time, it was four wheels. I put up some videos from the movie, which since his death have magically appeared on YouTube (despite the fact I can't find the movie anywhere, it's not on DVD and never was made into a VHS).
Patrick was a trained dancer, and it's funny that he will mostly be remembered for the shtick dancing he did in "Dirty Dancing." I have a nice YouTube of Patrick and Lisa dancing together in 1994 on my blog. It shows how much of a real dancer Patrick was.
Thanks for the poignant video.
Patrick was so talented in everything he did. May he rest in peace.
...or one of the martial arts.
In an interview he said that his mom, in whose studio he learned to dance, encouraged her students to go to a local karate school, and vice versa, because the discipline and training was mutually beneficial.
It helped when other guys, as they will do, started giving him shit about being a dancer. "I could effortlessly split any guy's lip," so he didn't get that crap for long.
Your post reminds me of "Lucy and Ramona" in L.A.:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRWTz3zY1WY
(Warning: the song is kind of an "earworm").
"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn
Fair warning: I am stealing your tagline because it is awesome! ;o}
I may have lost my virginity, but I still have the box it came in.
I pledge allegiance to the Constitution of the United States of America, and to the republic which it established, one nation from many peoples, promising liberty and justice for all
That's ok. I don't own it!
Truly a person as well as a star.
Some stuff you can't make up!
And don't forget Red Dawn,
Or better yet, do.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
We had a tape of Red Dawn at the rec center. It was filed under "comedy."
Somebody had to say it.
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
Swayze was also in an episode of M.A.S.H.
He played a soldier who was wounded along with his buddy. The doctors successfully treated his wounds and found out he had leukemia. They tried to encourage him to go to Tokyo right away, and maybe he could be cured, but he wouldn't have it. He knew leukemia was a death sentence, and insisted he wouldn't leave until his buddy pulled through.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
I liked some of his other movies, but Dirty Dancing was the dumbest piece of crap I ever sat through. I couldn't wait for it to end!
I fell asleep a couple of times, but the girl I was with kept waking me up so I wouldn't miss the great coreography sequences. As if I cared.
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
...have to be the mushy sentimentalist here, but I loved him in Ghost and every time I see it, it makes me cry, even though I suspect Demi Moore's tears are glycerin...
One of my faves.
Roadhouse is the movie I most adore when it comes to Swayze. His pseudo-philosophical nonsense and his ability to kick plenty of ass while keeping his mullet feathered and soft-looking wins me over every time.
God bless you, Swayze. Rest in peace.
My personal favorite roll he did was as the surfer-bank robber Bohdi in Point Break. When I was a teen, that movie really struck a nerve with me, largely because of his performance in it.
from MST3K and inspired by Crow's favorite movie, Roadhouse. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZyJCV_dyug
What's not to like about a band of adrenaline addicted bank robbers who are into surfing and sky diving? Well, yeah, Keanu Reeves and Gary Busey, but that wasn't Swayze's fault.
I never met the man, and never was likely too, but from little I know he was truly a decent guy. One more light leaves a world grown increasingly dark. Dammit.
"Road House" is still my favorite Patrick Swayze movie ever. RIP, man.
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