JackFetch Posted September 15, 2009 Report Share Posted September 15, 2009 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. Story continues below ↓advertisement | your ad here 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.” http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28582715/?gt1=43001 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron Robinson Posted September 15, 2009 Report Share Posted September 15, 2009 Damn, I completely forgot that he had cancer. RIP Swayze. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dread Posted September 15, 2009 Report Share Posted September 15, 2009 Roadhouse 4ever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFetch Posted September 15, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 15, 2009 Roadhouse 4ever. Agreed. That movie has some of the most memorable quotes in movie history. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dread Posted September 15, 2009 Report Share Posted September 15, 2009 Two words: switchblade boot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaxPower Posted September 15, 2009 Report Share Posted September 15, 2009 Bodhi : Life sure has a sick sense of humor, doesn't it? But we can still laugh at Patrick Swayze Chippendale Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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