OT: R.I.P. Jim Carroll and Patrick Swayze
Sep. 14th, 2009 05:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lazypadawanJim Carroll, a poet who gave the world Basketball Diaries and the song "People Who Died", passed away over the weekend at age 60. The only thing that's surprising is that he made it to 60.
And I just heard Patrick Swayze succumbed to pancreatic cancer. Since it's a cancer with something like a 5% survival rate and his health had been really bad for a while, I'm not surprised he didn't make it. Road House is one of my all-time favorite guilty pleasures because it's so deliciously cheesy, but the last time I watched part of it, I was saddened to see how buff Swayze was (he was shirtless like half the movie) 20 years ago and how thin and sickly he looked in the tabloid photos run some months ago. Swayze's biggest hit was Dirty Dancing but the first thing I remember seeing him in was the classic '80s Civil War miniseries, North and South. Condolences to his family.
And I just heard Patrick Swayze succumbed to pancreatic cancer. Since it's a cancer with something like a 5% survival rate and his health had been really bad for a while, I'm not surprised he didn't make it. Road House is one of my all-time favorite guilty pleasures because it's so deliciously cheesy, but the last time I watched part of it, I was saddened to see how buff Swayze was (he was shirtless like half the movie) 20 years ago and how thin and sickly he looked in the tabloid photos run some months ago. Swayze's biggest hit was Dirty Dancing but the first thing I remember seeing him in was the classic '80s Civil War miniseries, North and South. Condolences to his family.
