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I have been watching Patrick Swayze on both the big screen and the little screen for more than thirty years. In that time he has had great success and particularly on the big screen. Some of his most notable films were The Outsiders, Dirty Dancing, Ghost, and Point Break. As a matter of fact I liked the film Point Break so much that I named my daughter after the Lori Petty character Tyler Ann Endicott, which seems a weird thing in hindsight to do now.

He has also had a little success in music as well with the song he co-wrote with Stacy Widelitz called “She’s Like the Wind”, which was originally written for the movie Grandview U.S.A., but a appeared on the film Dirty Dancing. This song has not only been a top ten hit, but it has been covered by artists like David Hasselhoff and Lumidee to name a couple of them.

I can also remember him playing gang leader Bandit in a TV show called Renegades. I have seen him in the M*A*S*H episode of “Blood Brothers and most recently in an A&E drama called The Beast where he played an FBI agent named Charles Barker. He also had a starring role on the small screen in an HBO movie called Letters From a Killer. All in all some great stuff on TV I would have liked to see him do more in this venue.

As far as the personal life of Patrick Swayze what can you say about it? He lived his life just like everyone else does. He had his ups and downs. He battled alcoholism, his sister Vicky committed suicide by overdosing on drugs, and he lost his father to a heart attack. However he had his successes in his personal life as well. He married and remained so until his death to Lisa Niemi whom he met at the age of eighteen and she was fourteen.

Unfortunately for all of us the world has lost another true artist and performer to that killer called cancer. In this case it was a form of pancreatic cancer called Intraductal Papillary Mucinous Neoplasm, which is a sixty four dollar term for big trouble and no cure. Even so he fought the good fight and continued to work until he passed away just eleven short days ago, and I for one will miss him.

That is all I am going to write about for now here at Simple Man Entertainment, but I will be back again soon with something a little more upbeat I hope. Until then I hope you all have a wonderful weekend my friends CIAO4NOW!!!!!