Patrick Swayze is dead

[Mgderf]

Patrick Swayze died today from pancreatic cancer.

He will be sorely missed!

 

[Benny]

Source or it didn't happen.

All I see are rumors.

 

[Boilers]

Just saw that elsewhere.

RIP.

Saddens me a bit.

 

[shooter521]

Source or it didn't happen.

All I see are rumors.

Publicist: Patrick Swayze dies at 57 - Yahoo! News

LOS ANGELES – 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."

A three-time Golden Globe nominee, Swayze became a star with his performance as the misunderstood bad-boy Johnny Castle in "Dirty Dancing." As the son of a choreographer who began his career in musical theater, he seemed a natural to play the role.

A coming-of-age romance starring Jennifer Grey as an idealistic young woman on vacation with her family and Swayze as the Catskills resort's sexy (and much older) dance instructor, the film made great use of both his grace on his feet and his muscular physique.

It became an international phenomenon in the summer of 1987, spawning albums, an Oscar-winning hit song in "(I've Had) the Time of My Life," stage productions and a sequel, 2004's "Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights," in which he made a cameo.

 

[dwh79]

accorcing to fox news who said his publicist made the statement. My grandfather died of this it is a horrible thing.

 

[Mgderf]

Source or it didn't happen.

All I see are rumors.

Fox news and the AP wire.

 

[esrice]

Looks like this rumor floated around back in May '09.

I can't find anything current on it.

 

[esrice]

Nevermind then!! lol

 

[Benny]

Publicist: Patrick Swayze dies at 57 - Yahoo! News

LOS ANGELES – 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."

A three-time Golden Globe nominee, Swayze became a star with his performance as the misunderstood bad-boy Johnny Castle in "Dirty Dancing." As the son of a choreographer who began his career in musical theater, he seemed a natural to play the role.

A coming-of-age romance starring Jennifer Grey as an idealistic young woman on vacation with her family and Swayze as the Catskills resort's sexy (and much older) dance instructor, the film made great use of both his grace on his feet and his muscular physique.

It became an international phenomenon in the summer of 1987, spawning albums, an Oscar-winning hit song in "(I've Had) the Time of My Life," stage productions and a sequel, 2004's "Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights," in which he made a cameo.

Thanks.

That is sad news...He seemed like a good guy.


R.I.P Patrick.

 

[wtfd661]

RIP, he was my wife's favorite actor

 

[tatters]

Sad but looks to be true....

Publicist: Patrick Swayze dies at 57 - Yahoo! News

 

[United]

lost my brother to pancreatic cancer back in July. Nasty disease.

 

[originalhonkey]

thats sad> loved roadhouse and red dawn

 

[Turn Key]

My wife and I stayed in Lake Lure, NC for a week at the hotel where Dirty Dancing was filmed about 10 years ago. They had different theme nights and the whole works put together around the Dirty Dancing film.

You could really see the pain in his face during the filming of the Beast series. He'd really lost his hard arse look. He was an accomplished actor and will be missed.

God Bless

TK

 

[danielocean03]

Doesn't appear to be a rumor I'm afraid : Indy's News Center - 93.1 WIBC Indianapolis - Live. Local. First.

 

[ruger17hmr]

Rest in peace, Patrick!
You were one hell of actor.
You made my life better through your uncompromising acting.
You will be remembered through your movies in my heart.

 

[esrice]

I text'd my wife from work, and now she's crying. . . .

 

[danielocean03]

I text'd my wife from work, and now she's crying. . . .

Come on Evan, you really should have waited to tell her that at home. I don't give my wife bad news unless it is super important while she's at work, ESPECIALLY right now that she's nearly 8mos. pregnant!

 

[esrice]

Come on Evan, you really should have waited to tell her that at home. I don't give my wife bad news unless it is super important while she's at work, ESPECIALLY right now that she's nearly 8mos. pregnant!

No, I'm the one at work, she's at home.

Besides, if I told her when I got home I'd get the "why'd you wait so long to tell me?!" line.

We're married. There is no such thing as "winning" anymore.

 

[whiskeytangofoxtrot]

This saddens me. Road House and Point Break are two of my favorite movies. Rest in Peace.