While talking with a friend on the phone last night, she told me that Patrick Swayze had died.
I always liked Patrick, as an actor and – from interviews – as a person. A Houston native, he always seemed approachable and just plain nice. Like many other girls in the 80s, I went back time and again to see Dirty Dancing [2] and Ghost [3]. But I also enjoyed seeing him in action movies like Red Dawn [4], Road House [5], and Next of Kin [6]. And some friends and I spent a couple of Saturdays watching tapes of the TV mini-series North and South [7]. Patrick was a talented actor, never afraid of a challenging role, such as a drag queen in To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar [8] or a community leader with a terrible secret life in Donnie Darko [9]. He’ll truly be missed.
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