Patrick Swayze dead at 57

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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.
 
[quote name='bardockkun']God fuck me this year sucks.[/QUOTE]

This. Very sad. R.I.P. I thought he would have survived with it longer. Sad the illness was so painful and wasting on him.
 
Last few years have been tough on the guy. Rest in peace.

I am amazed, by the way, that there isn't a Youtube video of the SNL Chippendales skit. At least, not one where someone didn't dub music over it or turn it into a Chris Farley tribute.

Wanted to digitally pour one out for my homey, who is gyrating in the great beyond now with a totally unnecessary bowtie on.
 
sucks bigtime but he will be forever remember for his movies especially roadhouse ( never saw dirty dancing and i dont want to) wonder if they will cancel that show he was on or replace him or try and use his death as part of it. been alot of great people die this year.
 
[quote name='Ziv']And now another two must fall. Seems to be an extra bad year for famous people.[/QUOTE]

Don't know if he was "celebrity" enough, but Jim Carroll died Friday.

http://music.msn.com/music/article.aspx?news=431045&GT1=28102&

[quote name='lokizz']sucks bigtime but he will be forever remember for his movies especially roadhouse ( never saw dirty dancing and i dont want to) wonder if they will cancel that show he was on or replace him or try and use his death as part of it. been alot of great people die this year.[/QUOTE]

I think they already announced a couple of months ago that the show would not be renewed.
 
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[quote name='crunchb3rry']God better not put him in the corner.[/QUOTE]

Nobody puts Swayze in a coroner. Except for cancer.
 
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