Patrick Swayze dies... / Patrick Swayze -- 57 RIP

[hubbub2]

Faux...er, Fox News reporting Swayze's publicist saying the actor has died.

Anybody hearing the same?

[rdaneel]

Yep, it's hitting all the news sites (http://news.google.com/news/search?aq=f&pz=1&ned=us&hl=en&q=patrick+swayze) now.

[oldhat]

Now he's a ghost?

[applecorped]

Faux...er, Fox News reporting Swayze's publicist saying the actor has died.

Anybody hearing the saame?


Maybe he didn't really die then, right?

[applecorped]

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iI6rYwtW5ttJYhJ51d_aPbnBpDkQD9ANDLN80


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[oldhat]

Whoopi will bring him back.

[CptColumbo]

In his honor, I will ask "What would Dalton do?" whenever I'm faced with a tough situation.

Wolverines!!!

[hubbub2]

I'll just be nice...until it's time...to not be nice.

[Whiplash]

Why not continue to be nice indefniately? What exactly marks the time it's ok to be "not be nice"?

[ZirconBlue]

Why not continue to be nice indefniately? What exactly marks the time it's ok to be "not be nice"?

Usually when your grizzled, Sam Elliot-like mentor has been killed or seriously wounded. See also, Tombstone.

[ThatSoundAgain]

Damn it!

I just VJ'ed at a club saturday night, and used some of his morning karate routine from Road House to bring gender balance to the sexy clips. That feels really creepy now :(

RIP, Patrick.

[hubbub2]

"Next of Kin" 1989

Patrick Swayze: Do you believe in the hereafter?
Helen Hunt: Yes.
Patrick Swayze: Good, then you know what I'm here after!

Best movie line...EVER!

[arthwollipot]

Apparently I haven't seen a single one of his movies. :confused:

[alfaniner]

He's like the wind...

[HarryKeogh]

Now he's a ghost?

Wow, now that's clever.


RIP, Patrick. Sorry he had to check out in such a hard, painful way.

[jamrat]

Wolverines!!!

RIP Patrick.

[ZirconBlue]

Apparently I haven't seen a single one of his movies. :confused:

:jaw-dropp


Not even Ghost? Or Dirty Dancing? Red Dawn?! POINT BREAK?!?!?!?!?






Oops. Got a little carried away there.

[LONGTABBER PE]

He was a good actor- my condolences to the family

[bluess]

Damn. I just watched 'City of Joy', and he was wonderful in it.

[boooeee]

The Way of the Swayze (http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-way-of-the-swayze-how-to-be-a-thoughtful-hunk,1822/)

[Juniversal]

That's pretty crazy. At least he's not suffering anymore. *insert Swayze movie pun here*

[Praktik]

Big news.

My last name really is Swayze so its definitely something I've been living with since Day 1.

Always smoothed things over dealing with receptionists, who always tittered at my last name and would ask breathlessly: "any relation?"

I told some of em I was just to give em a thrill...

RIP

[Policenaut]

RIP

Goin' Off The Rails On A Swayze Train

[Chris H]

Awww!! I forgot about Point Break!!

[arthwollipot]

Not even Ghost? Or Dirty Dancing? Red Dawn?! POINT BREAK?!?!?!?!?Nope, nope, nope, aaaaanndddd... nope.

[Drudgewire]

If there's a more fitting tribute, I can't think of it:

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[Luciana]

So sad. He survived only 15 months after the diagnosis for pancreatic cancer, which is the life expectancy for such cases. It surprises me that someone who was not that old, and who could pay for the best treatment, really did last only 15 months. Just like my grandma, who was 82 and by no means rich. Oh, well.

[SezMe]

Dupe thread (http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=153868)

[StanBearclaw]

I always get him and Kurt Russell mixed up.

Imagine my relief when I realized Kurt was okay!

[CptColumbo]

So sad. He survived only 15 months after the diagnosis for pancreatic cancer, which is the life expectancy for such cases. It surprises me that someone who was not that old, and who could pay for the best treatment, really did last only 15 months. Just like my grandma, who was 82 and by no means rich. Oh, well.
IIRC Pancreatic Cancer is also what killed Bill Bixby, but he wasn't diagnosed until it was very advanced. Maybe it was too late for Swayze. I understand it is not a particularly nice way to go.

[jhunter1163]

IIRC Pancreatic Cancer is also what killed Bill Bixby, but he wasn't diagnosed until it was very advanced. Maybe it was too late for Swayze. I understand it is not a particularly nice way to go.

And Luciano Pavarotti, too. And no, it isn't a very nice way to go. No cancer is.

[Foolmewunz]

I work with a young lady who's in abject mourning over this. She's of the school of my ex-wife, who when she saw Swayze walk onto the TV screen in a commercial for the series North/South, actually gasped a little bit. The exact same reaction that Jennifer Gray had when she first sees him in Dirty Dancing.

To many women, he was the epitome of hot. And I have to admit a soft spot for Dirty Dancing... cheesy and ridiculous plot, but a lot of fun (mostly because I could watch my wife and daughter melt down watching Swayze but also because of the era, which I'd lived through).

Hated Ghost. Everything about it. I don't think of it as anti-Swayze, though - just anti-bad movies.

I'd have to add that he made a lousy drag queen, though. So far outshone by Snipes and Leguizamo...

[Soapy Sam]

I find I tend to fix a mental age limit on actors around the first time I see them in something memorable. I still think Helen Mirren is 23 and Gary Cooper about 40.
I had Swayze tagged at about thirty something. It comes as a surprise to realise people are much older than I think.
I suppose he'll be thirty something to a lot of people for many years yet. Immortality of a sort.

[Eddie Dane]

Point Break inspired me to do stupid things.

RIP Patrick

[MysteryMammal]

If there's a more fitting tribute, I can't think of it:

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That is a very fitting tribute. Then again, I've got a soft spot for Joel era MST3K.

[ZirconBlue]

Nope, nope, nope, aaaaanndddd... nope.

Huh. How about Donnie Darko? Or To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar? The Outsiders? Youngblood? Uncommon Valor?

[MattusMaximus]

RIP Patrick.

I think his best role was in Roadhouse. What a great movie :)

[four elevener]

RIP Patrick.

I think his best role was in Roadhouse. What a great movie :)


One of the best times I ever had watching a movie at a drive-in.

RIP

[The Central Scrutinizer]

The obituaries I've read have all mistakenly identified him as an actor. Strange that they would all make the same mistake.

[Praktik]

Guess you havent seen The Beast yet - mediocre show but Swayze had a gravitas that made it worth watching all on its own.

[Matthew Best]

http://www.wwtdd.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/toosoonjpg.jpg

[arthwollipot]

Huh. How about Donnie Darko? Or To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar? The Outsiders? Youngblood? Uncommon Valor?Nope, nope, nope, nope and nope.

I never claimed that my knowledge of contemporary film was particularly extensive. I'm a bit of a sci-fi snob, I'm afraid. I've always intended to watch Donnie Darko but I've just never got round to it.

That said, I would be the last to denigrate Swayze's contribution to modern cinema. For me he's like Clark Gable, Fred Astaire or Bette Davis - he had a body of work that made a significant contribution, but that I never personally watched.