September 14, 2009 | In the News,Life in General
I heard the news about Patrick Swayze on the way home from work today.
How sad is this?
And why does 57 sound so young?
My own father is 64–65?–and survived a bout of prostate cancer. He got lucky.
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen DIRTY DANCING. Seriously. I couldn’t. I’ve seen it so many times. I saw it twice in the movie theater, watched it when it came on the cable channels, watched it when it came on the regular channels (I hate it when they don’t know where to put the commercial breaks) and TOTALLY DID THE SNOOPY DANCE when the sequel came out.
I was so there. And loved it. Saw it twice in the movie theater, watched it when it came on…well, you know the routine.
Both movies are in my movie collection.
I owned the Dirty Dancing soundtrack for a while.
I had a poster of Patrick, as Johnny Castle, on my wall. And damn did he look fine. Dressed all in black, reclining on one side…
In reading this article about him, they listed some of the movies he’d been in and, ironically, I’ve seen them all. Even a few they didn’t mention.
DIRTY DANCING will always be my favorite. And ROAD HOUSE will always be Mr. Maul’s. Although he’d never admit it. Or the embarrassing fact that he and his BF have seen it so many times they can now quote movie lines.
And whenever I hear “Unchained Melody” (I really love that song), I think of that scene from GHOST. I mean, really, who hasn’t?
It also mentioned in the article that he danced with the Joffrey Ballet. For those of you unfamiliar with the dance world, the Joffrey is to ballet what Juliard is to music. In all the stuff I’ve read about Patrick, this is something I never knew about him. I just knew that he was great dancer and it was obvious he’d had some kind of ballet training. Amazingly cool that he played football, but wanted to dance.
Rest in peace, Patrick. I hope you’re teaching those angels how to tango.
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Wendy Prior says:
Isn’t it so sad. I just blogged about it too but was a little lost for words (unlike me, I know). I’m just gutted, he was wonderful, the ultimate hero. And fifty seven sure does seem too young.
Celise says:
I’m thinking that 2009 has been ap retty crappy year all the way around. We’ve lost SO many good people, it’s crazy. Just crazy.