RIP Patrick Swayze

[Steak Snabler]

My favorite "Roadhouse" moment ...

When I was playing high school football, guys on the team would always bring in those NFL Films "Crunch Course" videos for us to watch in the hours leading up to home games to "get fired up."

One guy's NFL tape had "Roadhouse" taped onto the end of it. After pre-game meal one week, we were watching it and of course, everyone wanted to fast-forward to the Swayze-Kelly Lynch sex scene.

Right in the middle of that scene, naturally, one of the coaches burst into the room. The guy with the remote panicked, started hitting fast-forward and cried out "we're tryin' to find some fightin' in this movie!!!!"

Can't see Roadhouse without thinking of that ...

 

[Some Guy]

And yet his best work was dancing next to Chris Farley.

 

[Care Bear]

Ask the three young construction workers who rescued him in Arizona when he landed his plane -- drunk off his ass -- in the middle of a neighborhood under construction just how "great a guy" Patrick Swayze was. The way he treated them in the aftermath of all that was downright criminal.

I'm sure even the three construction workers wouldn't have wished pancreatic cancer on him.

 

[Den1983]

R.I.P. Always been a fan of Swayze.

 

[ScribePharisee]

My wife drug me to "Dirty Dancing" against my will. Good movie, even as I spent most of the night having a secret fantasy over Jennifer Grey.

Big deal. She wooed over Swayze.

RIP dude. Hell of an actor.

"Ghost" and another great acting job came out right after my dad died... I found myself wishing I could have an encounter with him just once...

 

[DanOregon]

He died standing up.

I watched his last show The Beast only because he was in it. He was one of those actors who you liked and wanted to support his work.

RIP Patrick.

 

[TigerVols]

Ask the three young construction workers who rescued him in Arizona when he landed his plane -- drunk off his ass -- in the middle of a neighborhood under construction just how "great a guy" Patrick Swayze was. The way he treated them in the aftermath of all that was downright criminal.

I'm sure even the three construction workers wouldn't have wished pancreatic cancer on him.

Agreed.

 

[Webster]

No one puts Swayze in a coffin.

 

[Killick]

Too soon, Web.

 

[hondo]

I just hope God doesn't look at him and say, "I thought you'd be bigger."

 

[kleeda]

TigerVols, it's well known he was not drunk when he had an emergency landing in Arizona, but rather suffered altitude sickness based on fast depressurization. He did battle the bottle at another time in his life, but not that day.
A fine Texan, Mr. Swayze was.

 

[zagoshe]

He had the time of his life.

 

[Smallpotatoes]

As the cast of MST3K suggested, this holiday season, let's have a Patrick Swayze Christmas.

 

[Care Bear]

TigerVols, it's well known he was not drunk when he had an emergency landing in Arizona, but rather suffered altitude sickness based on fast depressurization. He did battle the bottle at another time in his life, but not that day.
A fine Texan, Mr. Swayze was.

I know that depressurization and altitude sickness are what Swayze asserted, but I was under the impression that open containers of alcohol were found in the plane (by the construction workers). And Swayze went to a hotel for several hours to sober up before contacting the police. I know he battled with alcohol in the past...

But perhaps now is not be the best time for this particular discussion.

 

[Webster]

What if his momma calls me a corpse?

Well, are you?

 

[kleeda]

Well, here is the NTSB report, where they are not especially prone to covering things up.
http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?ev_id=20001212X21252&key=1

 

[EStreetJoe]

This board is slipping.
I thought for sure in this thread (haven't checked the other) someone would have mentioned his work as Pvt. Gary Sturgis (MASH) or Bodhi by now.

 

[zagoshe]

Take the biggest guy in the world and shatter his knee and he'll drop like a stone.

 

[bagelchick]

I actually really enjoyed him in a movie called "City of Joy".

He fought the good fight. Knew this day was coming, but didn't think it would be today.

Sad.

 

[zagoshe]

He's like the wind.....