ditto
the passing of patrick swayze is quit sad. from Roadhouse to Red Dawn to Dirty Dancing and Ghost, he truly is someone i grew up on. Outsiders. Too Wong Foo. Point Break. i actually met him one night in L.A. he was filming some B movie with melanie griffith and a friend of a friend was working on the film and invited us down to wander around the set and the lot where the stars’ trailers were.
the night is kind of a blur though. between melanie griffith throwing a very audible fit in her trailer and patrick swayze throwing fire crackers from the window of his, i thought one or the other of them is going to cause me serious harm (my money was on melanie griffith). anyway, i got to say hi very briefly as he passed by on the way to the set. i think they were shooting a scene in an airplane and i remember the set was like a chunk of plane opened on one side. he was quite short.
dirty dancing is seriously one of my favorite movies. it’s not great filmmaking by any means, but it’s one of those movies that always on at some point during each day on the cable channels and everytime i find myself flipping past it, i reverse back and finish watching it. never fails.
and what of his co-star from that movie jennifer grey? i love her in Ferris. Jeannie Ferris. ah. so in honor of patrick’s passing, i offer this:
no, it’s actually nothing to do with Swayze. i just like jeannie Ferris that much.
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