O/T Patrick Swayze dead at 57

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bradk

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• Sep 14, 2009

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Pancreatic cancer took the the movie star"s life.

What was your guy"s favorite Swayze movies? Mine were "Roadhouse" and "Red Dawn"

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Anonymous-0

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• Sep 14, 2009

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On our first date I took my now wife to Ghost. Last night I got home late, couldn't sleep and watched Uncommon Valor. My favorite though was a Saturday Night Live when he played a Chippen Dale (sp?)dancer with Chris Farley. We were blessed to have them and may they rest in peace.

 

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Old Roy

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• Sep 14, 2009

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"Black Dog" ~~was one of my favorites

 

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Anonymous-0

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• Sep 14, 2009

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The scene in "Black Dog", where they take the I-26 Exit to NC, I can see that exit from our shop.. That is a great movie..

A couple I knew got cast as extras in "Dirty Dancing". They spent a over a week on the set. Said Patrick was a real nice guy..

 

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Flurette Farm

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• Sep 14, 2009

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I knew it was inevitable but I really hated to see him go.

 

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NW Ohio Tim

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• Sep 14, 2009

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I'd say Red Dawn.

I was a college freshman when that came out. Ohio State Ag School with a bunch of farm boy buddies, back in the day when we still hated Russians..... it really struck a nerve with us.

Makes you stop and think when the stars of[i:4a2e88f5f0] your time [/i:4a2e88f5f0]start to pass away....

Tim K in NW Ohio ~ Heading out to the shop for some late night work.

 

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• Sep 14, 2009

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Not going to say the movie but will say this and I hope all of you do this.
Have your PSA level checked at least once a year and if high check out why it is the first line of defense for that cancer

 

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Gun guru

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• Sep 15, 2009

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Red Dawn was very good. Guerilla warfare on US soil is scary. But it made for a good movie. (I think at the time it was the most violent movie ever made)

I think Roadhouse and some of the other movies were just crap. I didnt know he was 57.

 

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Anonymous-0

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• Sep 15, 2009

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PSA screen test"s for PROSTATE specific antigen....a test for PROSTATE cancer and NOT pancreatic cancer.

 

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Sean Feeney

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• Sep 15, 2009

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I did some work at Lake Lure NC when they were filming, and everyone talked about how nice of a guy he was.

 

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JDemaris

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• Sep 15, 2009

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He seemed to be a truly good guy, from what I can tell. I liked all his movies except the one where he played a big-rig trucker being coerced by "bad guys." can't think of the name of that one.

I give him credit for not making a public issue of his disease and not whining about it. He died of the same disease, and the same way, as Michael Landon (Little Joe from Bonanza and pa Ingles on Little House).

Oddly, there's another actor who shows up in many B movies and TV shows, and plays the rural-farmer sort. He looks like Patrick, but a bit more seedy. Just saw him playing the part of a nasty farmer, riding a tractor. Ends up he's Donald Swayze, Patrick's younger brother.

 

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jason, NW Ontario

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• Sep 15, 2009

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Not so much the movies, but I'll always remember him first from that Chippendale Dirty Dancing skit with Chris Farley on Saturday Night Live - some of the funniest physical comedy I ever saw on that show.

 

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ryanwheelock

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• Sep 15, 2009

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what about the movie were his kid could set fires with just her mind. think it was firestarter. one of his earlier movies.

 

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The Dukester

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• Sep 15, 2009

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Another Hero type from the last century gone....leaving us with, with, with, well, Ben Affleck? (maybe, *yawn*).

 

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Anonymous-0

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• Sep 15, 2009

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Swayze also did the made for TV mini-series "North-South". That, and the movie "The Outsiders" were my favorites. That SNL thing with Chris Farley was very funny too.

He was one of the very few "pretty boys" that still commanded a fair amount of respect for his acting abilities.

Godspeed Patrick.

 

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bruster

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• Sep 15, 2009

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My wife finally got a DVD of Roadhouse for me so I could watch it whenever I wanted, and didn't hog the tv when it came on

 

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ken in texas

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• Sep 15, 2009

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Red Dawn was filmed in and around Las Vegas NEW MEXICO. He later bought a ranch near there.We used to drive by there but never saw him.Did see Mat Dammion(sp) when he was filming there.

 

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bill mart

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• Sep 15, 2009

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that was David Keith who played Drews father in Firestarter

 

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Mike Henry

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• Sep 15, 2009

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Im with mfpoor. I really liked him in the north and south series.That was the first I really noticed him. Told many around me that he would someday be one of the big boys of the screen. Sorry to see him pass but cant imagine the agony of being trapped in that kind of illness.God bless him.

 

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NCWayne

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• Sep 15, 2009

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I think his best movies were Red Dawn and Roadhouse, of course Dirty dancing and Ghost were both pretty good too even though they were a little "chick flicky". I hate to see such a good actor die like that but even in the end he did something good....he knocked most of the Michael Jackson hoopla off the TV.