The Genius that is Patrick Swayze

Ally, don't forget the Meatball sandwiches.

Feel her breath on my face
Her body close to me
Can't look in her eyes
She's out of my league
Just a fool to believe
I have anything she needs
She's like the wind

[SOLO]

I look in the mirror and all I see
Is a young old man with only a dream
Am I just fooling myself
That she'll stop the pain
Living without her
I'd go insane

Feel her breath on my face
Her body close to me
Can't look in her eyes
She's out of my league
Just a fool to believe
I have anything she needs
She's like the wind

Feel your breath on my face
Your body close to me
Can't look in your eyes
You're out of my league
Just a fool to believe
(Just a fool to believe)
She's like the wind
(Just a fool to believe)
Just a fool to believe
(She's like the wind)
Just a fool to believe
(Just a fool to believe)
She's like the wind
(Just a fool to believe)
Just a fool to believe
She's like the wind

(Just a fool...)
(She's like the wind)
(She's like the wind)
(Just a fool...)
(She's like the wind)
(Just a fool...)

Didn't he play a drag-queen in a movie too?

Greatest. Movie. Ever.

http://www.mckellen.com/images/lotr/hwpris1.jpg

In the battle for UGLIEST CINEMA DRAG QUEEN EVER.

Actually Gene Hackman when they dress him up in The Birdcage is an uglier woman than all of these people combined.

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0792834976.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Brain dead cinema at its finest., February 3, 2000
Reviewer: A viewer from New York, NY
Patrick Swayze's crowning achievement. He's Dalton- the NYU philosophy major turned king of the bouncers. Dalton enthralls us with his wisdom with lines such as "Be nice" or "Pain don't hurt." He is ably supported by the king of cool, Sam Elliot, as the bouncer guru. Opposing them is Ben Gazzara as big, bad man around town, Brad Wesley.

This movie is a hoot! A well-made and fast paced action flick. It's a guilty pleasure. You know it's bad; yet you can't help watching it. Once you start watching "Road House," you won't be able to stop. We have rednecks fighting, their girlfriends doing stripteases on tables, more fights, a monster truck used as a prop, more fights, a trophy room that could have only been stocked by hunting in a zoo, more fights, Memphis Mafia member Red West as a supporting actor, more fights, and a stuffed polar bear being used as a weapon against the baddies. A special mention must be made for Marshall R. Teague as Jimmy, Brad Wesley's main goon. Jimmy stares at Dalton. Jimmy laughs maniacally when he burns down a house. Jimmy informs Dalton during a fight of what he used to do to guys like Dalton in prison. (It leads one to believe that when Jimmy was staring at Dalton it might have been more about checking out his bod than trying to intimidate him.)

:)

-- (doora...), July 11th, 2002 6:00 PM.

I hope to one day turn that into my tag, except replace NYU with Columbia. That will be on my tombstone if it kills me.

Let's Have a Patrick Swayze Christmas

Open up your heart and let the Patrick Swayze Christmas in.
We'll gather at the Roadhouse with our next of kin.
And Santa can be our regular Saturday night thing.
We'll decorate our barstools and gather round and sing.

Oh, let's have a Patrick Swayze Christmas this year!
Or we'll tear your throat out and kick you in the ear!

It's my way or the highway, this Christmas at my ba-ha-haar.
I'll have to smash your kneecaps if you bastards touch my car!
I got the word that Santa has been stealing from the till.
I think that that right jolly old elf better make out his will, ohh,

Oh, let's have a Patrick Swayze Christmas, one and all.
And this can be the haziest...
This can be the laziest...
This can be the Swayziest
Christmas of them aaallllllllll!

http://www.prosurfinstruction.com/images/pb4pres.jpg

also, you missed that Ron O'Neal and Powers Boothe starred in the epic.

I get "She's Like The Wind" stuck in my head at the worst times.

King Solomon’s Mines: "Allan Quatermain is lured back to Africa to find a man who was searching for King Solomon’s Mines." TV movie (for the Hallmark Channel!) in which Patrick Swayze (??!!) steps into the boots of Stewart Granger, Richard Chamberlain, Sean Connery, etc.

so classic. "Pain Don't Hurt".

also isnt it awesomely appropriate that it was directed by a man named rowdy harrington?

Also, that Orange head executive is totally HOTT!

and it seems like THE SWAYZAK is competing these days w/ mickey rourke wr2 botched ass-ugly plastic surgery disasters!

Next Of Kin is on tonight!

I WAS watching Harrison Ford in Firewall, but I am sooooooo changing channels in ten minutes.

GUYS now i have "she's like the wind" in my head!

SOMETIME I WISH PATRICK SWAZEY WAS OUR FATHER AND GIVED ME AND FRED THE DANCE LESSONS EVERY DAY. THE DANCE PART WHEN THE MAN SHOVE THE LADY AWAY AND TO SPIN. BUT THEN STOP AND GRAB THE LADY BACK CLOSE TO HIM. THATS A GOOD DANCE PART AND COULD HELPED WIN AWARD IN DANCE CONTEST. BUT IF I HEARD PATRICK SWAZEY WOULD BE IN DANCE CONTEST. THEN I WOULDNT BE IN A DANCE CONTEST TOO. I WOULD GOTO THE BATHROOM AND NOT COME OUT UNTIL IT WAS ALL OVER PLUS SOME. IF THAT EVRE HAPPEND. ID LIKE TO HAVED ONE OF THOSED LITTLE TELEVISIONS THAT GOES ON BATTERIES. I COULD BRINGF IT INTO THE BATHROOM WITH ME AND WATCH TV ON IT. BUT IF FRED WANTED TO COME WITH. I DONT THINKED THAT WOULD BE TOO GOOD. I DONT THINKED PERSUNS SHOULD SEE ME AND FRED IN THE BATHROOM STALL WATCHING A LITTLE TV TOGETHER WHILE PATRICK SWAZEY IS OUT THERE DANCING WITH A LADY. AT DIFFREND TIME IT MIGHT GO ALRIGHT. BUT JUST NOT THIS TIME. NOT WITH PATRICK SWAZE OUT THERE DANCING AROUND WITH A LADY. IT MIGHT WORK JUST FOR ME. BUT WITH FRED WITH. IT MIGHT NOT LOOKED TOO GOOD. THEY MIGHT THINK WERE TOO SCARED TO DANCE CONTEST WITH A LADY. BUT NOT TOO SCARED TO WATCH A LITTLE TV IN THE BATHROOM TOGETHER. FRED WOULD JUST HAVED TO DANCE CONTEST WITH PATRICK SWAZEY AND NOT MIND IT. BUT IF PATRICK SWAZE LEADED THE WAY. IF PATRICK SWAYZE. BEFORE HE DANCE CONTESTED WITH A LADY. GOTO BATHROOM WITH FRED AND ME TO WATCH A LITTLE BATTERY POWERED TV IN THE STALL. AND NOT GOTO THE BATHROOM JUST TO GOTO THE BATHROOM. THEN IT JUST MIGHT LOOKED ALRIGHT AFTERWARDS FOR JUST ME AND FRED TO WATCH A LITTLE TV TOGETHER THERE.

exactly!

Tim's kwayze for Swayze.

I can't wait to record the second EP now. Also I have now been possessed by the spirit of Roadhouse and must put it on.

"I think it's TIME for you gentlemen to leave."

"Killed a guy once...ripped his throat RIGHT out!"

GUYS now i have "she's like the wind" in my head!

anything that causes T✧✧@K✧✧.E✧✧ to post is A-OK in my book! :-0

man, next of kin is always so great. helen hunt, ben stiller, liam neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeson, bill paxton, what more could you ask for! what a movie. ans swayze's hair, don't get me started!

"road house" is on CMT RIGHT NOW ...

... and i miss poops mcgee ;_;

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JBR was saying the other day that Road House was on TV. Something's in the air.

hehehe....

Road House is televised at least once a week, somewhere, in my extended cable package.

Pain don't hurt.

RIGHT BOOT

Don't eat the big white mint.

HI CHRIS!!!!!

yeah, welcome back chris!!

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haha oops i meant to post this!!

http://www.zhippo.com/handsometattooshosted/images/gallery/swayze.jpg

hahahahahaha

lolololol

So, he's not in good shape, if the tabloids are to be believed.

(Could a mod linkify that horrible .gif?)

I know, just saw this! I hope it's not true. :-( Poor PS!

Very sad, if true:

For the past month, Patrick, 55, has been traveling to Stanford University's prestigious cancer center in Palo Alto for radical chemotherapy, but his doctors are no longer optimistic that the treatments will be successful.

Patrick and his wife Lisa Niemi — who both have pilot's licenses — have been flying their private Beechcraft plane into Palo Alto's airport, minutes away from the Stanford Cancer Center, where the actor has received outpatient treatment.

He received three doses of chemotherapy and the tumor shrank, but less than his doctors had hoped for — and Patrick was told he should prepare for the end.

"He was told he could have two more treatments, but his cancer was not responding. In short - they held out little hope for a cure," said an insider.

The man who danced into the hearts of audiences worldwide in the 1980s in Dirty Dancing and then broke them in the poignant love story Ghost in the early '90s has lost more than 20 pounds in the past few weeks and is restricted to a liquid diet because he has trouble keeping down solid food, added the insider.

Roadhouse is still one of my all time favorite bad movies.

First Jeff and now this!

Is it time to start worrying about Sam Elliott?

Some angry Obama fan could mistake him for Tracer Hand and tragedy will result.

x-post -- He'll outlive all of us.

(If someone else does go soon, time to start the conspiracy theories a la The Conqueror.)

a co-worker just told me this news ;__;

ben gazzara is still alive, AFAIK :-)

once again, the greatness of T✧✧@K✧✧.E✧✧ on the greatness of patrick swayze:

SOMETIME I WISH PATRICK SWAZEY WAS OUR FATHER AND GIVED ME AND FRED THE DANCE LESSONS EVERY DAY. THE DANCE PART WHEN THE MAN SHOVE THE LADY AWAY AND TO SPIN. BUT THEN STOP AND GRAB THE LADY BACK CLOSE TO HIM. THATS A GOOD DANCE PART AND COULD HELPED WIN AWARD IN DANCE CONTEST. BUT IF I HEARD PATRICK SWAZEY WOULD BE IN DANCE CONTEST. THEN I WOULDNT BE IN A DANCE CONTEST TOO. I WOULD GOTO THE BATHROOM AND NOT COME OUT UNTIL IT WAS ALL OVER PLUS SOME. IF THAT EVRE HAPPEND. ID LIKE TO HAVED ONE OF THOSED LITTLE TELEVISIONS THAT GOES ON BATTERIES. I COULD BRINGF IT INTO THE BATHROOM WITH ME AND WATCH TV ON IT. BUT IF FRED WANTED TO COME WITH. I DONT THINKED THAT WOULD BE TOO GOOD. I DONT THINKED PERSUNS SHOULD SEE ME AND FRED IN THE BATHROOM STALL WATCHING A LITTLE TV TOGETHER WHILE PATRICK SWAZEY IS OUT THERE DANCING WITH A LADY. AT DIFFREND TIME IT MIGHT GO ALRIGHT. BUT JUST NOT THIS TIME. NOT WITH PATRICK SWAZE OUT THERE DANCING AROUND WITH A LADY. IT MIGHT WORK JUST FOR ME. BUT WITH FRED WITH. IT MIGHT NOT LOOKED TOO GOOD. THEY MIGHT THINK WERE TOO SCARED TO DANCE CONTEST WITH A LADY. BUT NOT TOO SCARED TO WATCH A LITTLE TV IN THE BATHROOM TOGETHER. FRED WOULD JUST HAVED TO DANCE CONTEST WITH PATRICK SWAZEY AND NOT MIND IT. BUT IF PATRICK SWAZE LEADED THE WAY. IF PATRICK SWAYZE. BEFORE HE DANCE CONTESTED WITH A LADY. GOTO BATHROOM WITH FRED AND ME TO WATCH A LITTLE BATTERY POWERED TV IN THE STALL. AND NOT GOTO THE BATHROOM JUST TO GOTO THE BATHROOM. THEN IT JUST MIGHT LOOKED ALRIGHT AFTERWARDS FOR JUST ME AND FRED TO WATCH A LITTLE TV TOGETHER THERE.

-- T✧✧@K✧✧.E✧✧, Monday, June 4, 2007 11:14 PM (9 months ago) Bookmark Link

I was laughing my ass off at this at the exact moment I heard this news:
http://www.bestweekever.tv/2008/03/04/the-top-20-stupid-faces-made-by-patrick-swayze-in-ghost/

pretty unfortunate timing on their part :(

but now I'm backing to laughing again:

sandy says:
March 5th, 2008 at 8:22 am
i just heard on the radio, he has terminal cancer, thats sad, i liked him in roadhouse, and a few others.

Maybe him and Farrah Fawcett could make one last movie together, quickly.

ohsnap

They can always get Jeff Healey to play at the funeral.

UPDATE: Due to today’s tragic news, please see a new, related list… The Top 5 Most Handsomest, Well-Acted Faces of Patrick Swayze in Ghost.

Can't keep a good man down!:

There was no heavy-handedness in the line of dialogue, intended or accidental. Nothing about the scene — one of the many Mr. Swayze is filming on location here in the course of making a new police drama called “The Beast” — suggested anything other than that professional actors were at work.

But of course something quite out of the ordinary was taking place. A celebrity film star, who was given a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer less than a year ago, was putting in 12-hour days as the lead in a television series.

Partly, what was happening comes down to a work ethic for Mr. Swayze. In his first interview since his return to acting after receiving the diagnosis last January, Mr. Swayze said, “I just love to work hard.”

But he was aware that what he is doing right now is beyond what anyone believed would be possible 10 months ago. Pancreatic cancer, experts say, has only a 5 percent five-year survival rate.

“I do find myself, at the end of the day, riding home sort of catching myself with a smile on my face,” he said. “I’m proud of what I’m doing.”

...

“His doctors continue to be encouraging,” Mr. Van Amburg said. “His scans have been clean and clear. But they always couch things in caution. They tell us things like: ‘He should be fit to work, as far as we can tell today.’ ” He added, “They have never said he’s cured.”

In “The Beast” Mr. Swayze will be back in front of the public weekly, starting in January. Where things will go from there, no one can be sure yet, though the production executives are already talking about a second season — with Patrick Swayze.

That is certainly in Mr. Swayze’s plans as well.

“There is probably that little bird that flies through your insides and says, ‘I sure would like to make a mark in life,’ ” Mr. Swayze said. “I’ve made a pretty decent mark so far — nothing to scoff at. But it does make you think: Wait a minute. There’s more I want to do. Lots more. Get on with it.”

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/10/29/arts/television/sway2.lrg.jpg

pain don't hurt, indeed

i love this dude

I was going to post that story. I'm with Max – I've an irrational love for this man.

nothing irrational about it, he's a likable actor!

and he's only made two decent movies!

love conquers all

To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar and Father Hood amirite?

point break counts as like six good movies

ROADHOUSIN'

http://www.neonbubble.com/neonimg/1/roadhouse2.jpg

I rather wish that Soderbergh, Tarantino, or somebody would write him a 'comeback' role that gets him an Oscar nod.

^^^^^^^^^

JIMMY: Prepare to die!

DALTON: You're such an asshole.

having seen this movie on basic cable so many times it's kind of shocking how many titties and swear words there actually are

Oh Road House.. My favorite of the film's many fine plot points is that PSwayz rolls into that sleepy hamlet only to immediately find a mystical dojo for rent, which is not only directly adjoined to the aw shucks farm, but is also directly across the river from his arch nemesis, who has no reservations about scoping out Pswayz's chiseled, oily cosmic-enlightenment/workout sessions. And the movie was directed by a man who calls himself "Rowdy!" Seriously, I'd like to see the Ben Stiller/Edgar Wright set come up with something as perfectly camp. And it was 4 Real!

I don't know if anyone has mentioned how smoking hot Sam Elliot is in this movie but damn

Time again for Patrick Swayze Christmas

R.I.P. :(

http://www.tmz.com/#ixzz0R83GlY9N

BBC confirms.

r.i.p. swayze you went out pretty hardcore, much respect

What he said. RIP.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_obit_swayze

RIP for amusing movies and SNL appearances

RIP

The pain hurts this time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZyJCV_dyug

Doc: Your file says you've got a degree from NYU. What in?
Dalton: Philosophy.
Doc: Any particular discipline?
Dalton: No. Not really. Man's search for faith. That sort of shit.
Doc: Come up with any answers?
Dalton: Not too many.
Doc: How's a guy like you end up a bouncer?
Dalton: Just lucky I guess.

RIP.

I thought he'd be bigger. RIP wee man.

Fucking sucks that the internet has no place I can watch the Chippendales sketch.

RIP duder

RIP. heaven won't put swayze in a corner.

You know, I have nothing to say. He seemed like a genuinely good guy, moderately awed by his level of fame -- a decent actor who knew his limitations.

He's like part of my childhood too.

Fucking sucks that the internet has no place I can watch the Chippendales sketch.

Hulu? No?

Wanna go, pretty boy?

xpost

No.

just gotta hunt a little

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xu9mx_patrick-swayze-chippendale_dating

hah xp

how much does it suck that both guys in that classic sketch are dead now?

Fist bumping in heaven, etc.

I haven't seen that in an age. It's really funny even apart from the physical comedy.

"I'f you're really serious about going with me, it can only be because his body's so bad."
"Thanks, man."

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Point Break was robbed.

What's worse is how the tabloids have run one gaunt picture of him after another for 16 months.

Okay I'd never heard of Skatetown USA before and now that I have I have clearly missed out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiwtTwJkcrM

Roger Ebert gets it:

http://bventertainment.go.com/tv/buenavista/atm/reviews.html?sec=6&subsec=road+house

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuv_YcpM4nU

that is one violent gum toss

It gives me pause to think how many disco and/or rollerskating films I am familiar with.

RIP, Patrick. I still have the lyrics to "She's Like the Wind" memorized.

First time I remember seeing him was in "The Outsiders" as the oldest brother. Was never like a huge fan, but dude knew who he was as an actor and worked with it. Alway liked his little turn in "Donnie Darko." RIP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfg97-5uhFQ

SOME TOP FIVE BILLBOARD SHIT THERE, GUYS

rip a true player

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One of my old co-workers waited tables at a little seafood restaurant in Mena, Arkansas when she was in high school and claimed that Patrick Swayze once came in for a meal with his wife and was a super nice dude. I guess he owned some vacation property in southern Arkansas, of all places.

OK, crunch time, guys: do I rent To Wong Foo?

Yeah!

I mean, it's not an awfully good movie, but it's sweet. I'd happily watch it on an airplane, or if one of the actors just died.

WOLVERINES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

r.i.p. big guy.

Also totally robbed:

http://static.tvguide.com/MediaBin/Galleries/Editorial/090119/Patrick_Swayze_Movie_Roles/crops/02patrick-swayze-red-dawn1.jpg

xp Exactly.

my fave swayze moments in no particular order:

the outsiders (bloody greasers)

uncommon valor (bloody big muddy mia revenge)

road house (homoerotic bloodfighting)

next of kin (bloody hillbilly revenge)

steel dawn (bloody post-apocalyptic murder gangs)

youngblood (bloody hockey fights)

red dawn (greatest bloody russian movie ever made)

point break (bloody zen surf robbers)

Scott I do love you.

RIP Bandit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEPB4Fitw-c

I love this:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xzgv4_dirty-dancing-final-patrick-swayze_music

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RIP.

rest in peayze

why does everyone keep saying he died? doesn't anyone know a dirty rumor started by a Jacksonville Florida radio station when they see it?

"He's not dead. He's just dehydrated."

I think I've told this one elsewhere, but I was working at the hotel he stayed at when they were filming North & South Pt 2 in Natchez. He liked to hang out at the hotel bar, but inevitably would have to bail when the groupies started gathering around him. I'd seen him around for a few days, and he already knew about the service elevator by the time I happened to be walking through the lobby and met him coming the other way fast.
"Hey buddy, can you help me a minute?"
"Sure, what's up?"
"Can you take me up to seven in the service elevator?"
"Sure, no problem."
On the way up, he says "There were a couple of girls in the bar I had to get away from."
"haha, glad to help."
Silence while I concentrate on stopping the (manual) elevator flush with the 7th floor.
"Smooth."
"Thanks...here you go."
"'Preciate it, buddy."
"Any time."

...RIP

Nobody buries Baby in a corner.

(Too soon?)

Nah, Shakey will be along to shit on whatever I couldn't get to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygiLUrJJjnM

God, he really could wear a mullet better than anyone in his generation, eh?

apparently he was reported dead - then that was reported to be a rumor - and now he is reported to be dead again. erm my mistake RIP

God, he really could wear a mullet better than anyone in his generation, eh?

Not only that, they could photograph it right most of the time! A rare thing indeed!

A quick blog ramble. With quotes from here so thanks all...

If anyone can find an old "Prime Time Live" or "20/20" clip, filmed during Ghost promotion, in which Swayze breaks down in tears while relating to Barbara Walters that his father threw him out of the house after telling Swayze that he wanted to be a dancer. The guy could roll with the punches.

*er, after SWAYZE told him. My version's still awesome.

his father threw him out of the house after telling Swayze that he wanted to be a dancer

That must have been one strange conversation.

"Son?"

"Yes dad."

"I...I want to be a dancer. Now get the HELL out of my house!"

Fuck now I want that to be in a movie or something. That should be the opening scene.

this is the first celebrity death since ODB or Syd Barrett where i've felt really really sad.

RIP.

Acting is so fucking mysterious. Over the Xmas break I watched the last 10 minutes of Dirty Dancing -- a movie which in eighth grade defined heterosexuality for me, for better or worse -- with my parents. Dad, who's no sucker for this sort of thing, said, "He's so likable, isn't he?" It had nothing to do with Swayze's acting -- the dude was just aces. You liked to watch him.

http://i27.tinypic.com/2vi5gzm.jpg

haven't seen many of the clas[sic]s, but vaya con Dios

also I hope your life as a ghost blows away that garbage movie

NIGGA I'M GHOST LIKE SWAYZE

holy shit that roller disco trailer on neds blog is like ?!

rip

(oh, the trailer is ^^^ also)

http://www.maryellenmark.com/text/magazines/us%20weekly/images/222H-013-009.jpg

RIP James Dalton, I hope you rode that once-in-a-lifetime wave into infinity.

My girlfriend, who had a bit of a (ostensibly ironic, but really, I think, real) passion for Swayze, once informed me that his favorite color was "faded black."

Make of that what you will.

Wish this were a YT so I could post it directly, but still classic nonetheless.

http://ladynwavsone.com/sheslikethewind.html

Sheesh. Let's remember the good times.

I blame Dan Brown.

http://www.collider.com/uploads/imageGallery/Point_Break/point_break_movie_image_patrick_swayze.jpg

RIP,
King-like Bodhisattva.
Suffer no more.

Thanks for the good times.

the day the feather hair died.

really, I'm sorry he's gone, but his interview on the Road House DVD ... not the brightest bulb on the marquee,

So you rented it eh.

hell no! Library.

but still you WATCHED it

We're all just fools to believe that we have anything Morbs needs.

I did, to the degree it can be watched. Sam Elliott can almost redeem anything.

Funny how Keith David gets billing and is left with about one line!

xp

also, I used to fuck guys like you in prison.

Well now I'm imagining Morbz with a mullet.

there's something very charmingly morbz-ian about him scanning through the DVD to find a swayze interview, even in a movie that is kind of beneath his standards and all.

he is a doctor and he is thorough

Kelly Lynch makes it clear in her interview what a thoroughly shitty movie it is, while PS is "It's the story of two lost souls..."

Reminds me of something Denise Richards says on the extras from the Starship Troopers DVD:

"it's about life and love, and this and that....and the war!"

does it bother you, morbz, that ben gazzara is infinitely better known to everyone (even film geeks) as brad wesley in road house than for anything he ever did w/ cassavetes (or anything else, for that matter)?

shit, i wonder what gazzara himself thinks of this distinction -- and if anyone ever asked him.

I don't know who these "film geeks" would be. Sound more like Gen Y shitheads.

(watching anything that comes on basic cable does not confer some cineaste cred upon an individual)

imo gazzara is way better in road house than in anything by cassavetes

but i like judd apatow so what do i know

imo gazzara is way better in road house than in anything by cassavetes

yeah -- in fact, my favorite scene in road house is the one where gazzara is driving down the road in his convertible singing along to some old doo-wop song and swerving all over the damn place.

"Sh-boom!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwunAssLQ4I

yes, that is his best scene.

I first think of Gazzara in Anatomy of a Murder

"rescreening" Road House. Forgot the part with the monster truck, the bit where he rips the guy's throat open with his bare hands, and "Tails again!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdGrB3Za4_o

Kelly Lynch makes it clear in her interview what a thoroughly shitty movie it is, while PS is "It's the story of two lost souls..."

― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Friday, October 9, 2009 1:34 AM (nine years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i've been thinking about an ex-ILXor's recent tweet a lot, in that the power of Swayze in Point Break but also Road House is the ^^^^deep sincerity with which he plays the roles. A lesser actor would have winked his way through them. the roles aren't devoid of humor but they're not jokes.

True. He fully commits to the ride.