All right. Someone needs to stop this pop cultural Grim Reaper. He's being a real asshole this year. And now he's taken Johnny Castle.I suppose since Patrick Swayze was battling pancreatic cancer, his death shouldn't be that much of a shock. Nor should it be that tragic, since it means that he's not suffering anymore. But, for me, it's a little bit of both, because it's just one more piece of my childhood/young adulthood that's gone. And even though I'll still always have the images Patrick left on the screen - the secretly sensitive greaser Darry in The Outsiders, the leader of the Wolverines in Red Dawn, the protective spirit in Ghost, and the hottest dance instructor to ever grace the Catskills in Dirty Dancing - now I'll feel a certain sadness when watching them. But I'll still keep watching them.
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Love some Patrick Swayze. Sad that he's gone.
Because Bodie had a beautiful mullet and died riding the biggest wave ever rather than be arrested by that d-bag Johnny Utah.
But I liked Swayze. I was entertained by the films I saw him in.
And Point Break. Loved it.
And Roadhouse.
And Ghost.
He will be missed.
He will always be beautiful. Johnny Castle is now immortal.