Crazy for Swayze
People.com
February 16, 2009 • written by Maggie Wilken, Staff Writer
Filed under Entertainment
Most people have heard the famous line, “Nobody puts Baby in a corner.” Those words alone scream Patrick Swayze. Swayze is the definition of a man. If you put a picture of him under the word “man” in a dictionary, a definition wouldn’t be necessary.
Swayze starred in the popular 1987 movie “Dirty Dancing,” based on a teen girl, nicknamed Baby, who goes on vacation with her family. Baby meets a dance instructor (Swayze), and joins his posse of misbehaving, dirty dancing friends. The good-girl-gone-bad learns a new style of dance, and the rest is history. Swayze captivates the viewers through obscenely moving his hips.
Thirty two years later young girls across the nation are still watching the obnoxiously fit actor dance… dirty. The credit for today’s style of dance can be blamed, or credited, to Swayze.
On the manlier side, Swayze starred in the movie “Road House.” Swayze played the top dog as a security guard for all the best bars. His new project is to help clean up the bar ‘Double Deuce’ from its drug dealing, fight starting regulars. The supplier starts to lose business so the owner and his posse try to bring down Dalton, (Swayze) and Double Deuce. Swayze, being a man, has an amazing fight scene at the end of the movie and completely throttles the other guy.
He throws out one liner’s left and right in the movie that you can’t help but to repeat at every break in a conversation. My favorite to throw out randomly is, “I want you to be nice, until it’s time to not be nice.”
Swayze is not an incredible actor only because of his performance in both of these movies, but because of his versatility. To go from playing a rebel boy to a big-shot security guy isn’t easy, and for most actors it doesn’t happen.
Because of his amazing ability to transform into multiple characters, he is a major icon of his time.
In recent years, he has been struggling with cancer, and even that can’t keep him down. He keeps fighting, and receiving treatment, telling his fans he refuses to give up. Doctors, however, tell him his time is limited. He reportedly is in the process of writing a memoir of his life with his wife Lisa.
His latest project is his new series “The Beast.” The series is based on an undercover FBI agent, Charles Barker, played by Swayze. Reviews say the show won’t live up to Swayze’s reputation, but that has yet to be seen.
My life would have never been the same had I never watched him shake his derrière. For that reason alone, I thank him. Thus far, my dance moves have been superior because of him.
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