The Genius that is Patrick Swayze

One of my old co-workers waited tables at a little seafood restaurant in Mena, Arkansas when she was in high school and claimed that Patrick Swayze once came in for a meal with his wife and was a super nice dude. I guess he owned some vacation property in southern Arkansas, of all places.

OK, crunch time, guys: do I rent To Wong Foo?

Yeah!

I mean, it's not an awfully good movie, but it's sweet. I'd happily watch it on an airplane, or if one of the actors just died.

WOLVERINES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

r.i.p. big guy.

Also totally robbed:

http://static.tvguide.com/MediaBin/Galleries/Editorial/090119/Patrick_Swayze_Movie_Roles/crops/02patrick-swayze-red-dawn1.jpg

xp Exactly.

my fave swayze moments in no particular order:

the outsiders (bloody greasers)

uncommon valor (bloody big muddy mia revenge)

road house (homoerotic bloodfighting)

next of kin (bloody hillbilly revenge)

steel dawn (bloody post-apocalyptic murder gangs)

youngblood (bloody hockey fights)

red dawn (greatest bloody russian movie ever made)

point break (bloody zen surf robbers)

Scott I do love you.

RIP Bandit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEPB4Fitw-c

I love this:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xzgv4_dirty-dancing-final-patrick-swayze_music

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RIP.

rest in peayze

why does everyone keep saying he died? doesn't anyone know a dirty rumor started by a Jacksonville Florida radio station when they see it?

"He's not dead. He's just dehydrated."

I think I've told this one elsewhere, but I was working at the hotel he stayed at when they were filming North & South Pt 2 in Natchez. He liked to hang out at the hotel bar, but inevitably would have to bail when the groupies started gathering around him. I'd seen him around for a few days, and he already knew about the service elevator by the time I happened to be walking through the lobby and met him coming the other way fast.
"Hey buddy, can you help me a minute?"
"Sure, what's up?"
"Can you take me up to seven in the service elevator?"
"Sure, no problem."
On the way up, he says "There were a couple of girls in the bar I had to get away from."
"haha, glad to help."
Silence while I concentrate on stopping the (manual) elevator flush with the 7th floor.
"Smooth."
"Thanks...here you go."
"'Preciate it, buddy."
"Any time."

...RIP

Nobody buries Baby in a corner.

(Too soon?)

Nah, Shakey will be along to shit on whatever I couldn't get to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygiLUrJJjnM

God, he really could wear a mullet better than anyone in his generation, eh?

apparently he was reported dead - then that was reported to be a rumor - and now he is reported to be dead again. erm my mistake RIP

God, he really could wear a mullet better than anyone in his generation, eh?

Not only that, they could photograph it right most of the time! A rare thing indeed!

A quick blog ramble. With quotes from here so thanks all...

If anyone can find an old "Prime Time Live" or "20/20" clip, filmed during Ghost promotion, in which Swayze breaks down in tears while relating to Barbara Walters that his father threw him out of the house after telling Swayze that he wanted to be a dancer. The guy could roll with the punches.

*er, after SWAYZE told him. My version's still awesome.

his father threw him out of the house after telling Swayze that he wanted to be a dancer

That must have been one strange conversation.

"Son?"

"Yes dad."

"I...I want to be a dancer. Now get the HELL out of my house!"

Fuck now I want that to be in a movie or something. That should be the opening scene.

this is the first celebrity death since ODB or Syd Barrett where i've felt really really sad.

RIP.

Acting is so fucking mysterious. Over the Xmas break I watched the last 10 minutes of Dirty Dancing -- a movie which in eighth grade defined heterosexuality for me, for better or worse -- with my parents. Dad, who's no sucker for this sort of thing, said, "He's so likable, isn't he?" It had nothing to do with Swayze's acting -- the dude was just aces. You liked to watch him.

http://i27.tinypic.com/2vi5gzm.jpg

haven't seen many of the clas[sic]s, but vaya con Dios

also I hope your life as a ghost blows away that garbage movie

NIGGA I'M GHOST LIKE SWAYZE

holy shit that roller disco trailer on neds blog is like ?!

rip

(oh, the trailer is ^^^ also)

http://www.maryellenmark.com/text/magazines/us%20weekly/images/222H-013-009.jpg

RIP James Dalton, I hope you rode that once-in-a-lifetime wave into infinity.

My girlfriend, who had a bit of a (ostensibly ironic, but really, I think, real) passion for Swayze, once informed me that his favorite color was "faded black."

Make of that what you will.

Wish this were a YT so I could post it directly, but still classic nonetheless.

http://ladynwavsone.com/sheslikethewind.html

Sheesh. Let's remember the good times.

I blame Dan Brown.

http://www.collider.com/uploads/imageGallery/Point_Break/point_break_movie_image_patrick_swayze.jpg

RIP,
King-like Bodhisattva.
Suffer no more.

Thanks for the good times.

the day the feather hair died.

really, I'm sorry he's gone, but his interview on the Road House DVD ... not the brightest bulb on the marquee,

So you rented it eh.

hell no! Library.

but still you WATCHED it

We're all just fools to believe that we have anything Morbs needs.

I did, to the degree it can be watched. Sam Elliott can almost redeem anything.

Funny how Keith David gets billing and is left with about one line!

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