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Celeb News: Patrick Swayze Passes Away
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Posted 15 September 2009 - 04:25 AM
September 14, 2009, 8:34 pm
Patrick Swayze Dies
By Anita Gates
Lefteris Pitarakis/Associated Press
Patrick Swayze in 2005.Patrick Swayze, the balletically athletic actor who rose to stardom in the films “Dirty Dancing” and “Ghost” and whose 20-month battle with advanced pancreatic cancer drew wide attention, died Monday. He was 57.
His publicist, Annett Wolf, told The Associated Press in Los Angeles that Mr. Swayze died with family at his side.
Mr. Swayze’s cancer was diagnosed in January 2008. Six months after that, he had already outlived his prognosis and was filmed at an airport, smiling at photographers and calling himself, only half-facetiously, “a miracle dude.” He even went through with plans to star in “The Beast,” a new drama series for A&E, and filmed a complete season while undergoing treatment. Mr. Swayze insisted on continuing with the series.
“How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you’re a dead man?” he said to Bill Carter of The New York Times last October. “You go to work.”
The show, on which he plays an undercover F.B.I. agent, had its premiere in January and earned him admiring reviews.
A week before the series began, Mr. Swayze was the subject of a one-hour “Barbara Walters Special” on ABC, talking about his illness. “I keep my heart and my soul and my spirit open to miracles,” he told Ms. Walters. But he said he was not going to pursue every experimental treatment that came along. If he were to “spend so much time chasing staying alive,” he said, he wouldn’t be able to enjoy the time he had left. “I want to live,” he said.
http://artsbeat.blog...ck-swayze-dies/
RIP :(
Patrick Swayze Dies
By Anita Gates
Lefteris Pitarakis/Associated Press
Patrick Swayze in 2005.Patrick Swayze, the balletically athletic actor who rose to stardom in the films “Dirty Dancing” and “Ghost” and whose 20-month battle with advanced pancreatic cancer drew wide attention, died Monday. He was 57.
His publicist, Annett Wolf, told The Associated Press in Los Angeles that Mr. Swayze died with family at his side.
Mr. Swayze’s cancer was diagnosed in January 2008. Six months after that, he had already outlived his prognosis and was filmed at an airport, smiling at photographers and calling himself, only half-facetiously, “a miracle dude.” He even went through with plans to star in “The Beast,” a new drama series for A&E, and filmed a complete season while undergoing treatment. Mr. Swayze insisted on continuing with the series.
“How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you’re a dead man?” he said to Bill Carter of The New York Times last October. “You go to work.”
The show, on which he plays an undercover F.B.I. agent, had its premiere in January and earned him admiring reviews.
A week before the series began, Mr. Swayze was the subject of a one-hour “Barbara Walters Special” on ABC, talking about his illness. “I keep my heart and my soul and my spirit open to miracles,” he told Ms. Walters. But he said he was not going to pursue every experimental treatment that came along. If he were to “spend so much time chasing staying alive,” he said, he wouldn’t be able to enjoy the time he had left. “I want to live,” he said.
http://artsbeat.blog...ck-swayze-dies/
RIP :(
#10
Posted 19 September 2009 - 12:20 AM
I'm so so sad!!! Patrick was my all time favourite, my first celebrity crush
Great guy (adorable with his fans), great actor, singer, musician, amazing dancer and lovely husband (34 years with the same woman, his first love)
Miss You but forever in my heart!
Like Ghost, go to the heaven, dance with the angels
My thoughts goes to Lisa and his family
Great guy (adorable with his fans), great actor, singer, musician, amazing dancer and lovely husband (34 years with the same woman, his first love)
Miss You but forever in my heart!
Like Ghost, go to the heaven, dance with the angels
My thoughts goes to Lisa and his family
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