On this site, I’ve been extremely critical of actor Patrick Swayze over the years. On Patrick Swayze’s Cancer: Pray for the Hero of “Red Dawn” And he was a Texas cowboy, a licensed pilot, and Arabian horse owner.īut I have to say, my all-time fave Patrick Swayze project was his Saturday Night Live skit auditioning for the Chippendale’s dancer with Chris Farley (videos below). A showman, he had a wide range of roles, from leads in chick flicks (“Dirty Dancing,” “Ghost”) to guy flicks (“Point Break,” “Youngblood,” “Road House,” “Next of Kin”) to just plain bad flicks (“To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar,” in which he was a crossdresser). Swayze was not only a talented actor, but a talented singer (had the hit, “She’s Like the Wind” from the “Dirty Dancing” soundtrack) and classically-trained ballet dancer, as well. I’m posting, below, what I wrote when his cancer diagnosis was first made public over a year-and-half ago. When I was in high school and college, he was very hot and definitely sexy. This movie was his most important and an important commentary about fighting for our freedoms. Patrick Swayze in “Red Dawn” and “North and South”Īlthough I’ve been a critic of Swayze’s comments about the Mid-East, a pan-Arabist propaganda movie he planned on making, and other issues, I’ve also been a fan from the time I saw him as a Confederate soldier in the TV miniseries (remember those?), “North and South,” and in his best movie ever, as a Wolverine in “Red Dawn,” the 25th anniversary of which was last month. Sadly, pancreatic cancer is not a “sexy” disease and doesn’t get nearly a fraction of the funding for research that is given to breast cancer, AIDS, and other more “glamorous” or politically popular incurable illnesses.
Although he was unfortunate to be struck by this horrible illness, Swayze was lucky to beat the odds and remain alive for 20 months after being diagnosed with the fatal disease that also took my father after just a few months, as with most of its victims. He was only 57 and bravely, publicly fought the cancer. Today, actor Patrick Swayze died of pancreatic cancer at his ranch.
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