The Genius that is Patrick Swayze

x-post -- He'll outlive all of us.

(If someone else does go soon, time to start the conspiracy theories a la The Conqueror.)

a co-worker just told me this news ;__;

ben gazzara is still alive, AFAIK :-)

once again, the greatness of T✧✧@K✧✧.E✧✧ on the greatness of patrick swayze:

SOMETIME I WISH PATRICK SWAZEY WAS OUR FATHER AND GIVED ME AND FRED THE DANCE LESSONS EVERY DAY. THE DANCE PART WHEN THE MAN SHOVE THE LADY AWAY AND TO SPIN. BUT THEN STOP AND GRAB THE LADY BACK CLOSE TO HIM. THATS A GOOD DANCE PART AND COULD HELPED WIN AWARD IN DANCE CONTEST. BUT IF I HEARD PATRICK SWAZEY WOULD BE IN DANCE CONTEST. THEN I WOULDNT BE IN A DANCE CONTEST TOO. I WOULD GOTO THE BATHROOM AND NOT COME OUT UNTIL IT WAS ALL OVER PLUS SOME. IF THAT EVRE HAPPEND. ID LIKE TO HAVED ONE OF THOSED LITTLE TELEVISIONS THAT GOES ON BATTERIES. I COULD BRINGF IT INTO THE BATHROOM WITH ME AND WATCH TV ON IT. BUT IF FRED WANTED TO COME WITH. I DONT THINKED THAT WOULD BE TOO GOOD. I DONT THINKED PERSUNS SHOULD SEE ME AND FRED IN THE BATHROOM STALL WATCHING A LITTLE TV TOGETHER WHILE PATRICK SWAZEY IS OUT THERE DANCING WITH A LADY. AT DIFFREND TIME IT MIGHT GO ALRIGHT. BUT JUST NOT THIS TIME. NOT WITH PATRICK SWAZE OUT THERE DANCING AROUND WITH A LADY. IT MIGHT WORK JUST FOR ME. BUT WITH FRED WITH. IT MIGHT NOT LOOKED TOO GOOD. THEY MIGHT THINK WERE TOO SCARED TO DANCE CONTEST WITH A LADY. BUT NOT TOO SCARED TO WATCH A LITTLE TV IN THE BATHROOM TOGETHER. FRED WOULD JUST HAVED TO DANCE CONTEST WITH PATRICK SWAZEY AND NOT MIND IT. BUT IF PATRICK SWAZE LEADED THE WAY. IF PATRICK SWAYZE. BEFORE HE DANCE CONTESTED WITH A LADY. GOTO BATHROOM WITH FRED AND ME TO WATCH A LITTLE BATTERY POWERED TV IN THE STALL. AND NOT GOTO THE BATHROOM JUST TO GOTO THE BATHROOM. THEN IT JUST MIGHT LOOKED ALRIGHT AFTERWARDS FOR JUST ME AND FRED TO WATCH A LITTLE TV TOGETHER THERE.

-- T✧✧@K✧✧.E✧✧, Monday, June 4, 2007 11:14 PM (9 months ago) Bookmark Link

I was laughing my ass off at this at the exact moment I heard this news:
http://www.bestweekever.tv/2008/03/04/the-top-20-stupid-faces-made-by-patrick-swayze-in-ghost/

pretty unfortunate timing on their part :(

but now I'm backing to laughing again:

sandy says:
March 5th, 2008 at 8:22 am
i just heard on the radio, he has terminal cancer, thats sad, i liked him in roadhouse, and a few others.

Maybe him and Farrah Fawcett could make one last movie together, quickly.

ohsnap

They can always get Jeff Healey to play at the funeral.

UPDATE: Due to today’s tragic news, please see a new, related list… The Top 5 Most Handsomest, Well-Acted Faces of Patrick Swayze in Ghost.

Can't keep a good man down!:

There was no heavy-handedness in the line of dialogue, intended or accidental. Nothing about the scene — one of the many Mr. Swayze is filming on location here in the course of making a new police drama called “The Beast” — suggested anything other than that professional actors were at work.

But of course something quite out of the ordinary was taking place. A celebrity film star, who was given a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer less than a year ago, was putting in 12-hour days as the lead in a television series.

Partly, what was happening comes down to a work ethic for Mr. Swayze. In his first interview since his return to acting after receiving the diagnosis last January, Mr. Swayze said, “I just love to work hard.”

But he was aware that what he is doing right now is beyond what anyone believed would be possible 10 months ago. Pancreatic cancer, experts say, has only a 5 percent five-year survival rate.

“I do find myself, at the end of the day, riding home sort of catching myself with a smile on my face,” he said. “I’m proud of what I’m doing.”

...

“His doctors continue to be encouraging,” Mr. Van Amburg said. “His scans have been clean and clear. But they always couch things in caution. They tell us things like: ‘He should be fit to work, as far as we can tell today.’ ” He added, “They have never said he’s cured.”

In “The Beast” Mr. Swayze will be back in front of the public weekly, starting in January. Where things will go from there, no one can be sure yet, though the production executives are already talking about a second season — with Patrick Swayze.

That is certainly in Mr. Swayze’s plans as well.

“There is probably that little bird that flies through your insides and says, ‘I sure would like to make a mark in life,’ ” Mr. Swayze said. “I’ve made a pretty decent mark so far — nothing to scoff at. But it does make you think: Wait a minute. There’s more I want to do. Lots more. Get on with it.”

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/10/29/arts/television/sway2.lrg.jpg

pain don't hurt, indeed

i love this dude

I was going to post that story. I'm with Max – I've an irrational love for this man.

nothing irrational about it, he's a likable actor!

and he's only made two decent movies!

love conquers all

To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar and Father Hood amirite?

point break counts as like six good movies

ROADHOUSIN'

http://www.neonbubble.com/neonimg/1/roadhouse2.jpg

I rather wish that Soderbergh, Tarantino, or somebody would write him a 'comeback' role that gets him an Oscar nod.

^^^^^^^^^

JIMMY: Prepare to die!

DALTON: You're such an asshole.

having seen this movie on basic cable so many times it's kind of shocking how many titties and swear words there actually are

Oh Road House.. My favorite of the film's many fine plot points is that PSwayz rolls into that sleepy hamlet only to immediately find a mystical dojo for rent, which is not only directly adjoined to the aw shucks farm, but is also directly across the river from his arch nemesis, who has no reservations about scoping out Pswayz's chiseled, oily cosmic-enlightenment/workout sessions. And the movie was directed by a man who calls himself "Rowdy!" Seriously, I'd like to see the Ben Stiller/Edgar Wright set come up with something as perfectly camp. And it was 4 Real!

I don't know if anyone has mentioned how smoking hot Sam Elliot is in this movie but damn

Time again for Patrick Swayze Christmas

R.I.P. :(

http://www.tmz.com/#ixzz0R83GlY9N

BBC confirms.

r.i.p. swayze you went out pretty hardcore, much respect

What he said. RIP.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_obit_swayze

RIP for amusing movies and SNL appearances

RIP

The pain hurts this time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZyJCV_dyug

Doc: Your file says you've got a degree from NYU. What in?
Dalton: Philosophy.
Doc: Any particular discipline?
Dalton: No. Not really. Man's search for faith. That sort of shit.
Doc: Come up with any answers?
Dalton: Not too many.
Doc: How's a guy like you end up a bouncer?
Dalton: Just lucky I guess.

RIP.

I thought he'd be bigger. RIP wee man.

Fucking sucks that the internet has no place I can watch the Chippendales sketch.

RIP duder

RIP. heaven won't put swayze in a corner.

You know, I have nothing to say. He seemed like a genuinely good guy, moderately awed by his level of fame -- a decent actor who knew his limitations.

He's like part of my childhood too.

Fucking sucks that the internet has no place I can watch the Chippendales sketch.

Hulu? No?

Wanna go, pretty boy?

xpost

No.

just gotta hunt a little

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xu9mx_patrick-swayze-chippendale_dating

hah xp

how much does it suck that both guys in that classic sketch are dead now?

Fist bumping in heaven, etc.

I haven't seen that in an age. It's really funny even apart from the physical comedy.

"I'f you're really serious about going with me, it can only be because his body's so bad."
"Thanks, man."

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