TIBB Big Brother Tribute thread task. Patrick Swayze

[Vanessa]

Patrick Swayze, I've been in love with him ever since I saw him on Dirty Dancing.
I've never seen anyone so beautiful.
I was only 14. He he
That movie definitely made it's way into my heart and it's still there.
He was a beautiful dancer and a brilliant actor as well.
My friends, I would love to know which one is your favorite Patrick Swayze movie.
A poll will follow.
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[Benjamin]

Ghost but more because of Whoopi :laugh:

[Vanessa]

Ghost but more because of Whoopi :laugh:

That is a great movie. Very emotional.
Everyone was so good in it and I always liked Demi and Patrick chemistry there.

[Kate!]

I voted for Ghost as well. Great cast, and yes I love Patrick. Beautiful story.

[Benjamin]

That is a great movie. Very emotional.
Everyone was so good in it and I always liked Demi and Patrick chemistry there.

Oh yeah they were all great. I may actually give that a rewatch soon. Such a great film.

[Vanessa]

I voted for Ghost as well. Great cast, and yes I love Oatrick. Beautiful story.

Surely you like Dirty Dancing as well? I was so obsessed with it growing up :flutter:

[Benjamin]

Of all those movies listed I’ve only watched Ghost :hehe:

[Vanessa]

Oh yeah they were all great. I may actually give that a rewatch soon. Such a great film.

He was on The Outsiders as well.
That's one of my all time. favorite movies. Don't know if you've seen that.

[Vanessa]

Of all those movies listed I’ve only watched Ghost :hehe:

You're missing out. Point Break is just epic!

[Benjamin]

He was on The Outsiders as well.
That's one of my all time. favorite movies. Don't know if you've seen that.

Nope. What’s it about?

[Kate!]

Surely you like Dirty Dancing as well? I was so obsessed with it growing up :flutter:

I do yes Ness. It's my second favourite on your poll.

Adore both Ghost and DIrty Dancing. It was a hard choice.

[Vanessa]

Nope. What’s it about?

I's about a group of kids growing up.
A lot of famous actors in it when they where younger.
Matt Dillon, Tim Cruise, Ralph Macchio, Emilio Estevez.

[Vanessa]

I do yes Ness. It's my second favourite on your poll.

Adore both Ghost and DIrty Dancing. It was a hard choice.

Have you seen the outsiders? Pony boy :love:

[Kate!]

Have you seen the outsiders? Pony boy :love:

No that's one I never got round to watching

[Vanessa]

I watched North and South when I was going to school. What a great series that was!

[Vanessa]

No that's one I never got round to watching

It's brilliant and really heartbreaking.
A great cast, what a very young Tom Cruise

[Kate!]

I watched North and South when I was going to school. What a great series that was!

I loved it, was wonderfully engrossing.

[Benjamin]

I's about a group of kids growing up.
A lot of famous actors in it when they where younger.
Matt Dillon, Tim Cruise, Ralph Macchio, Emilio Estevez.

Oh I have heard of it, just not seen it.

[Vanessa]

Donnie Darko is just one of my favorite movies. And even better that Patrick is on it.
Weird movie but fantastic.

[Vanessa]

Oh I have heard of it, just not seen it.

Ben you really need to see it. It's so good!
I first watch it when I was going to school. So it has a lot of memories for me .

[Vanessa]

I loved it, was wonderfully engrossing.

David Carradine is also in it. Form Kung Fu

[Kate!]

David Carradine is also in it. Form Kung Fu

Yes and also Erica Gimpel who played Coco in Fame

[Vanessa]

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[Vanessa]

Yes and also Erica Gimpel who played Coco in Fame

Was she? Didn't know that. Who does she play?

[Kate!]

Was she? Didn't know that. Who does she play?

Erica Gimpel. On the small screen, Gimpel played the visionary Semiramis in the 1985 ABC miniseries "North and South" and reprised the role for the sequel ...

[Vanessa]

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[Vanessa]

The Outsiders
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[Vanessa]

Roadhouse
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[Vanessa]

My favorite scene in Dirty Dancing 1HUh0c1acnw

[Vanessa]

North and South
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[Kate!]

Lovely tribute posts. The memories :lovedup:

[Beso]

Point break was a great film, not watched that in ages.

I do think it will be one of those films that's not as good now as it was then though.

So maybe dirty dancing just for the music.

[Vanessa]

Lovely tribute posts. The memories :lovedup:

I used to watch North and South when I was going to school :bawling:

[Ammi]

Ghost but more because of Whoopi :laugh:

…yeah, although Dirty Dancing is still one of my biggest go to Sunday afternoon duvet movies…Ghost belonged to Whoopi for sure…:love:..

[Vanessa]

Point break was a great film, not watched that in ages.

I do think it's one if those films that's not as good now as it was then though.

So maybe dirty dancing just for the music.

Hi Parm. I lost count how many times I've watched Point Break. I just love it. And Patrick plays a baddie in it and is brilliant.
Of course I love Dirty Dancing and the music reminds me of growing up in Italy.
At school we all loved that movie.

[Vanessa]

…yeah, although Dirty Dancing is still one of my biggest go to Sunday afternoon duvet movies…Ghost belonged to Whoopi for sure…:love:..

I love all the dancing scenes. They were so much fun!

[Beso]

Hi Parm. I lost count how many times I've watched Point Break. I just love it. And Patrick plays a baddie in it and is brilliant.
Of course I love Dirty Dancing and the music reminds me of growing up in Italy.
At school we all loved that movie.

I bet you had the time of your life.

[Ammi]

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[Ammi]

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[Ammi]

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[Ammi]

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[Ammi]

Swayze grew up taking dance classes at his mother’s Houston studio — and being bullied. Around the age of 12, five boys jumped him at once. Seeing his cuts, his father, Jesse Wayne Swayze, a onetime rodeo champion and Golden Gloves boxer, finally taught Patrick hand-to-hand combat (the son had also just started studying martial arts). A couple months later, Jesse drove Patrick to school and told the football coach he wanted him to pull those five boys out of class so they could “settle this thing” in the weight shack by the football field — only this time, they’d fight Patrick one at a time. Patrick sent them each home bloody and bruised. It wasn’t the last time fists would fly. Everyone wanted to fight the new “tough guy” — especially since he was carrying ballet shoes and a violin case. His dad told him, “If I ever see you start a fight, I’ll kick your ass. And if I ever see you not finish a fight, I’ll kick your ass.”

[Ammi]

Swayze made his feature film debut as the leather-clad leader of a roller-disco gang in 1979’s Skatetown, USA. The role he really wanted, however, was John Travolta’s in Urban Cowboy, the film his mother and wife were choreographing in his hometown. “As soon as [Skatetown] wrapped, I flew down to Houston to join Lisa. One night we ended up hanging out with John and teaching him a few steps, which frustrated me even more,” Swayze writes. “Country dancing was in my DNA, and as much as I like John, I hated giving someone else tips on how to play a role I was born for. But really, what I hated was that he was so good at it.”

[Vanessa]

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[Ammi]

Remember June 1, 2000, when Swayze made an emergency landing in his Cessna 414a? He was flying from California to New Mexico to try to save Rancho Bizarro from raging wildfires. A month earlier, while Lisa was flying, the plane had started to lose pressurization (a situation can lead to hypoxia and death, as happened to golfer Payne Stewart). The plane had been serviced (a sticky residue on the outflow valve that was a result of the couple smoking in the cockpit was to blame). But Swayze decided to fly the plane a low altitude, thinking he was playing it safe. He remembers putting the plane on autopilot — and then waking up a couple hundred feet above the ground in Arizona. A mechanical issue, the return of the sticky residue, and the fact that Swayze’s three-pack-a-day lungs weren’t functioning at peak performance led to a crisis. He wasn’t getting enough oxygen. In fact, he shouldn’t have woken up. Since he’d had the autopilot on, he should have just stayed in the air until he ran out of fuel, then crashed. But somehow the autopilot was hit off during the flight, and, Swayze writes, “Air traffic control radar showed that between Needles and my landing in Prescott Valley, I almost hit the ground eleven times. I flew between 6,500 and 11,500 feet, narrowly missing the mountains. And my route looked like a strand of spaghetti, looping around with no purpose for about forty-five minutes. Fortunately, as I approached Prescott Valley, my plane had gently drifted lower until there was enough oxygen in the air to revive me.”

Swayze knew he had cheated death many times — surviving that flight, motorcycle accidents, horse accidents (including one that broke both his legs while filming 1998’s Letters From a Killer), that night on the ledge with David Carradine. But his final battle with pancreatic cancer was the biggest challenge. He describes his fight from the moment he felt his first symptom to the moment his mother, Patsy, found out about his diagnosis from a National Enquirer reporter who showed up at her door (he hadn’t yet told her because she was having eye surgery and needed to keep her eyes dry for a few weeks after it, so no crying), through to his struggle to film his final performance, the A&E drama series The Beast, while undergoing chemotherapy. Before he and Lisa left for that shoot in Chicago, they renewed their wedding vows: “We have ridden into the sunset on a white stallion, countless times. We’ve tasted the dust in the birthplaces of religions. Yet you still take me breath away. I’m still not complete until I look in your eyes,” his concluded. “You are my woman, my lover, my mate and my lady. I’ve loved you forever, I love you now and I will love you forevermore.”

[Vanessa]

Thank you so much Ammi. Love reading about his life. So fascinating!

[Ammi]

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[Vanessa]

Aww so heartbreaking :bawling:

[Vanessa]

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[Vanessa]

Yes he was a a heavy smoker unfortunately :sad:

[Vanessa]

Erica Gimpel. On the small screen, Gimpel played the visionary Semiramis in the 1985 ABC miniseries "North and South" and reprised the role for the sequel ...

Oh thank you. I'll look out for it when I rewatch the dvd

[Vanessa]

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[Vanessa]

Does anyone like Roadhouse? That is such a kickass movie. And Sam Elliot is in it :flutter:

[Vanessa]

I bet you had the time of your life.

I did :joker:

[Vanessa]

Swayze made his feature film debut as the leather-clad leader of a roller-disco gang in 1979’s Skatetown, USA. The role he really wanted, however, was John Travolta’s in Urban Cowboy, the film his mother and wife were choreographing in his hometown. “As soon as [Skatetown] wrapped, I flew down to Houston to join Lisa. One night we ended up hanging out with John and teaching him a few steps, which frustrated me even more,” Swayze writes. “Country dancing was in my DNA, and as much as I like John, I hated giving someone else tips on how to play a role I was born for. But really, what I hated was that he was so good at it.”

I haven't seen Skatetown. Need to watch it.

[Vanessa]

Swayze made his feature film debut as the leather-clad leader of a roller-disco gang in 1979’s Skatetown, USA. The role he really wanted, however, was John Travolta’s in Urban Cowboy, the film his mother and wife were choreographing in his hometown. “As soon as [Skatetown] wrapped, I flew down to Houston to join Lisa. One night we ended up hanging out with John and teaching him a few steps, which frustrated me even more,” Swayze writes. “Country dancing was in my DNA, and as much as I like John, I hated giving someone else tips on how to play a role I was born for. But really, what I hated was that he was so good at it.”

Omg he would have been amazing on Urban Cowboy!

[Vanessa]

Don't know how to post gifs, so pictures it is :laugh:

[Ammi]

I haven't seen Skatetown. Need to watch it.

…actually don’t think that I’ve seen it, Vanessa…if I have then I can’t recall any of it…we’ll have to check out where we can watch it…

[Vanessa]

…actually don’t think that I’ve seen it, Vanessa…if I have then I can’t recall any of it…we’ll have to check out where we can watch it…

Maybe YouTube? They have a lot of movies there.

[Ammi]

Don't know how to post gifs, so pictures it is :laugh:

…just post gifs in exactly the same way, as if they were a still pic…

[Ammi]

Maybe YouTube? They have a lot of movies there.

…yeah I’ll try to remember to check it out over the weekend, YouTube seems like a good call…

[Vanessa]

…just post gifs in exactly the same way, as if they were a still pic…

I'll try. Never been able to post one.lol

[Vanessa]

…yeah I’ll try to remember to check it out over the weekend, YouTube seems like a good call…

My TV has YouTube, so I always like to watch movies there.
Also still have some dvds

[Ammi]

I'll try. Never been able to post one.lol

…for some reason they don’t post from all sites for me but the ones on GIPHY do so I tend to use that site mostly…

[Vanessa]

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[Vanessa]

…for some reason they don’t post from all sites for me but the ones on GIPHY do so I tend to use that site mostly…

i did it with Tapatalk

[Vanessa]

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[Vanessa]

Kicking some serious ass in Roadhouse https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20250425/c1b77fbff57e455c210530d1593f48d9.gif

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[Vanessa]

I'm going to have a coffee, then come back to more Patrick :love:

[AnnieK]

I learned to touch type by typing the script to Dirty Dancing. I loved it as a kid and could probably still recite it word for word :laugh:

[Vanessa]

I learned to touch type by typing the script to Dirty Dancing. I loved it as a kid and could probably still recite it word for word :laugh:
Omg we all loved it at school. I remember when it came out. It was a phenomenon

[Vanessa]

He had beautiful singing voice as well. A man of many talents
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[Kate!]

From Ghost

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She's like the Wind? That was surely from Dirty Dancing.

[Vanessa]

She's like the Wind? That was surely from Dirty Dancing.

I was trying to post another gif. I'll try again

[Vanessa]

From Ghost https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20250425/6541a1b4f37fef40744d421f78d325ce.gif

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[Vanessa]

It worked. Yay

[Vanessa]

From Dirty Dancing 3jQMMCq4kmc

[Vanessa]

Patrick dancing with his wife oBI4-338aP0

[Vanessa]

Patrick Swayze owns the dancefloor Tac7c8oKcB4

[Vanessa]

Johnny teaches Baby to dance A9Tpjc3uHqA

[Vanessa]

Log dancing
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[Maru]

Did anyone mention the pottery scene he did in Ghost, because my very growing mind remembers that scene feeling very iconic, but not quite yet fully understanding it :laugh:

[Maru]

I voted Dirty Dancing, but Ghost is very close...

[Vanessa]

Did anyone mention the pottery scene he did in Ghost, because my very growing mind remembers that scene feeling very iconic, but not quite yet fully understanding it :laugh:

Hi Maru. Aw I love that scene, it's so romantic

[Vanessa]

I voted Dirty Dancing, but Ghost is very close...

Yes both great movies.
Have you seen Point Break? Another brilliant movie and my absolute favorite. Keanu Reeves is in it as well :flutter:

[Maru]

Hi Maru. Aw I love that scene, it's so romantic

It was romantic to me too at that age, but that doesn't mean I understood every aspect of it at the time. To me, he's at top of the list when it comes to romantic movies...he definitely looks like he belongs on a novel.

[Maru]

Yes both great movies.
Have you seen Point Break? Another brilliant movie and my absolute favorite. Keanu Reeves is in it as well :flutter:

It might've been the first movie I ever saw with Keanu in it, I think, but I only vaguely remember scenes from it. I remember the bankrobber masks :laugh:

[Mystic Mock]

Like Robin Williams, I haven't seen loads of Swayze's Films.

But out of the ones that I have watched, I did enjoy Ghost.

[Vanessa]

It might've been the first movie I ever saw with Keanu in it, I think, but I only vaguely remember scenes from it. I remember the bankrobber masks :laugh:

He plays a baddie in this. Probably my favorite performance of his. So much fun

[Vanessa]

Like Robin Williams, I haven't seen loads of Swayze's Films.

But out of the ones that I have watched, I did enjoy Ghost.

Yes it's a great movie for sure.
I highly recommend Point Break, it's brilliant.

[Vanessa]

Good morning everyone. I'll be here later with more Patrick Swayze goodness.

[Kate!]

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