Between the recent 30th anniversary of Road House and a new Paramount Network documentary, I Am Patrick Swayze, the late actor— Patrick Wayne Swayze on August 18, 1952—has been the subject of renewed interest. For die-hard Swayze fans, however, the versatile performer has never gone out of sight. For more on the Houston native, check out some facts on Swayze’s upbringing, his detour into carpentry, and why he wasn’t the first choice for 1990’s Ghost. Patrick Swayze was part of a Disney ice show.While Swayze garnered acclaim for his dramatic works in films like 1983’s and 1987's, among others, he was equally adept at roles requiring a high degree of physicality. His agility stemmed from an early love of dance.
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Growing up in Houston, Swayze’s mother, Patsy, was the director of the Houston Jazz Ballet Company, which her son with an early portal of entry to the art form: At eight months old, Swayze would sit in his playpen and in time to the music while his mother taught class. Swayze went on to take ballet, which earned him the occasional taunts by classmates but also helped him when he branched out into football and gymnastics.
(He also met his future wife, Lisa Niemi, at his mother’s class. The two married in 1975.) Fresh out of college, Swayze for one year with the Disney on Parade ice show as Prince Charming.
At 19, he to New York to pursue a stage career. After his dance aspirations were derailed following a knee injury, he began to focus on acting. Patrick Swayze took over the lead role in Grease from John Travolta. MJ Kim, Getty ImagesFollowing complications with his knee, Swayze sought out a lower-impact role. He auditioned for and the part of Danny Zuko in Broadway’s Grease, which had previously been played by John Travolta.
The part paid dividends, and not just in exposure. Swayze invested part of his salary from the show into acting classes for both himself and Lisa at Warren Robertson’s Theater Workshop in New York, where Robert De Niro and James Earl Jones had also studied. Patrick Swayze once owned a carpentry business.At the time of his feature film debut in 1979’s campy roller rink melodrama Skatetown USA, Swayze feared his career could take a turn into teen idol territory. Rather than accept a multi-film contract where he would have little control over the parts offered, he and Lisa decided to a carpentry business, Nepotism, Inc. (It employed brothers from both of their families, hence the name.) Swayze knew little about carpentry but studied books on the subject. The business was successful, with jobs ranging from renovating the kitchen of actress Jaclyn Smith to an entire home in Coldwater Canyon. The work kept him busy between acting auditions.
With the income, Swayze could also be more selective about the movies he appeared in. After a string of appearances on television, including a TV movie titled The Comeback Kid with John Ritter and an episode of, Swayze earned his second-ever film role in 1983’s The Outsiders, an adaptation of the S.E. Hinton young adult. Patrick Swayze didn’t write “She’s Like the Wind” for Dirty Dancing.One of the bigger hits to come out of the 1987 dance drama Dirty Dancing was “She’s Like the Wind,” a on the film’s soundtrack that Swayze sang and co-wrote. But he actually didn’t compose it for that film. Swayze originally co-wrote it for 1984’s Grandview, USA, a demolition derby comedy featuring Swayze and C. Thomas Howell.
When that production passed on using it, Swayze was free to resurrect it for Dirty Dancing. Due to the film’s low budget and lack of funds for music licensing, Swayze and co-writer Stacy Widelitz were able to retain 100 percent of the publishing rights—a lucrative arrangement after the song became a hit. Dirty Dancing almost landed Swayze his own fragrance.With Dirty Dancing, Swayze became a recognized movie star. That success, he People in 1988, led to a series of offers that he found bewildering.
“There are people who want me to do a cologne,” he said. “They want to call it Patrick. I was offered a fortune to make exercise videos.
Posters, all kinds of stuff—something like $10 million worth. It’s insanity. I’m not going to do any of it.” Swayze instead chose to do 1989’s bar bouncer epic, which performed only modestly at the box office but has since become a cult classic. Patrick Swayze wasn’t the first choice for Ghost.A perennial favorite among Swayze fans, 1990’s features the actor as Sam Wheat, a murdered man who returns as a spirit to communicate with his widow (Demi Moore).
In 1990, director Jerry Zucker People that Swayze was not his first choice for Wheat, due to a pair of knuckle-dusting action movies the actor had made in 1989: Road House and Next of Kin. That changed once Swayze read a key scene from the script in Zucker’s office. “We all had tears in our eyes, right there in the office—and we knew how it ends,” Zucker said. “I saw a side of Patrick that I never knew existed.” Ghost became Swayze’s biggest hit by far, nearly $218 million.
It was surfing, not skydiving, that made Point Break so dangerous for Patrick Swayze.For 1991’s, Swayze portrayed Bodhi, a Zen master of a bank robber with a taste for adrenaline. The actor reportedly went on an 50 jumps to prepare for the film, though the insurance company eventually asked him to stop. This was something Swayze found puzzling, as he considered surfing the far more dangerous activity of the two. “The funny thing was, it was a joke for the insurance company to give me such a battle about the skydiving, when, statistically, skydiving has become one of the safest sports around,” Swayze the Morning Call in 1991.
“It’s safer than driving your car to work. They didn’t say one word about this surfing.” Swayze said he slammed into coral reefs and was held under water, making it substantially more of a threat than anything else. The I Am Patrick Swayze documentary set a ratings record.Swayze passed away 10 years ago, on September 14, 2009, at age 57 from pancreatic cancer.
His life and work were recently celebrated in the Paramount Network documentary I Am Patrick Swayze. The film, which features comments from Lisa Swayze, Demi Moore, and several of his friends and co-stars, August 18, 2019, and earned a total of 2 million viewers, making it the most-watched cable personality documentary of the year. Beirut-born Keanu Reeves has been a Hollywood fixture since the mid-1980s, shifting from early dramatic turns in films like River’s Edge (1986) to action thrillers like (1994) and (1999) and an indelible performance as Theodore “Ted” Logan in the franchise. (A highly anticipated third installment is due in 2020).For more on the actor, including why he believed he was sent to “movie jail” for a decade, read on. Hockey kept him busy as a kid.Born to a half-Hawaiian, half-Chinese father and an English mother in 1964, Reeves was in Toronto, where he was swept up in the appeal of ice hockey.
He played throughout school and even co-coached a hockey club. While there, Reeves had an to try out for the Windsor Spitfires, a hockey team in the Ontario Hockey League.
Reeves turned it down, believing his future was in performing. Later, he would portray a hockey pro alongside Patrick Swayze and Rob Lowe in 1986’s Youngblood.
Alice Cooper used to come over to his house. Niko Tavernise, LionsgateReeves’s mother was a costume designer, which likely contributed to his interest in the performing arts. He Us magazine in 1995 that she made him some elaborate Halloween costumes—Dracula, Batman, Cousin Itt—and often had some of her clients over to the house.
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Among them: Alice Cooper. “I remember he brought fake vomit and dog poo to terrorize the housekeeper,” Reeves said. “He’d hang out, a regular dude.” 3. He almost named himself “Chuck Spadina.”When Reeves came out to Los Angeles in the 1980s, he found that some casting agents were to having him come in for auditions because his first name (which “cool breeze over the mountains”) was hard to pronounce and seemingly too exotic. In order to combat this hurdle, Reeves began using “K.C. Reeves,” “Chuck Spadina,” and “Page Templeton III” instead.
Reeves eventually abandoned the practice because he would go to auditions and tell them his real name anyway. It’s possible that he accidentally married Winona Ryder.While shooting 1992’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Reeves and Winona Ryder—who played Jonathan and Mina Harker, respectively—appear in a scene in which their characters get married. Ryder later pointed out that director Francis Ford Coppola a real priest in the scene and that both actors said their vows, meaning they might actually be married. Coppola with this theory, although it’s not known whether the priest used their character names or the actors' real names during shooting.
He’s been willing to defer his salary to get other actors in his movies. Sebastian Willnow, AFP/Getty ImagesReeves has worked with an impressive list of actors in his career, including Al Pacino (1997’s The Devil’s Advocate), Gene Hackman (2000’s The Replacements), and Jack Nicholson (2003’s Something’s Gotta Give). In at least the first two instances, he willingly his compensation in order for the productions to free up some of their budget to be able to afford the actors. 'Is that all I have to do?' He recalled asking producers. What else do I have to do? ‘Cause I’ll do it!'
He believed turning down Speed 2 put him in “movie jail” for 10 years.After the success of 1994’s Speed, where Reeves portrayed a cop trying to save the lives of people trapped on a bus rigged to explode if it dips below 50 miles an hour, the studio was understandably eager for a sequel. At the time he was shown the script, Reeves was shooting the 1996 action film Chain Reaction and was growing of roles where he was “running and jumping” for little to no reason. He turned Speed 2 down, a move that he led to a decade of “movie jail” where he was offered no other roles by Fox. Ultimately, the sequel was made; Reeves was replaced by Jason Patric, who co-starred with Sandra Bullock in 1997’s Speed 2: Cruise Control.
The film was not well-received, and Reeves appears to have no regrets about saying no to it. At the time he turned it down, he recalled telling director Jan de Bont, “You know, boats aren’t that fast.” 7.
He has been booed offstage.Reeves infamously toured with his band, Dogstar, in the 1990s, which played what he once as “like, folk music,” or “folk thrash.” When they were invited to play Metalfest in Milwaukee, the band stood out in sharp contrast to the heavier acts on the bill. Reeves recalled that the crowd “threw beer at us and told us to f. off and yelled, ‘You suck!’ It was beautiful.
It made me laugh.” 8. He was tricked into appearing in The Watcher.In 2000’s The Watcher, Reeves plays against his typical onscreen affability as a serial killer in a cat-and-mouse game with a detective (James Spader). According to Reeves, he was actually into appearing in the film when a (presumably former) friend forged his signature on the contract.
Daunted by the prospect of trying to prove it was a forgery, he decided to go ahead and do the movie. “I couldn’t prove he did and I didn’t want to get sued, so I had no other choice but to do the film,” he said. He has a recurring role on a television show you probably haven’t heard of. Pop TVIt’s not unusual for film actors to take roles in one of the many prestige television series airing on streaming and premium networks. Reeves, however, seems to have taken a low-key approach to television, for a small recurring role in Swedish Dicks, a U.S.
And Scandinavian co-production about two private detectives from Sweden trying to earn a living in Los Angeles. Reeves’s friend, actor Peter Stormare, is one of the stars. The comedy airs on the Pop TV channel in the U.S. He’s published books of his own poetry.In 2011, Reeves collaborated with artist Alexandra Grant for Ode to Happiness, a limited-run book a poem written by Reeves and accompanied by Grant’s illustrations for each line. The composition (“I draw a hot sorrow bath”) is self-aware in its overwrought approach that Grant likened to a “grown-up children’s book.” The two have since gone on to work on 2016’s Shadows, a similar poem and art project featuring photos of Reeves, and are now their own publishing imprint, X Artists’ Books, to showcase titles with a visual aesthetic that are sold via art stores or an online subscription.
Might be a sunny, silly sitcom, but it’s surprisingly good fodder for fan theories. Pawnee, Indiana’s small town quirks, from the Zorp-worshipping cult to the horrifying art in city hall, lend themselves perfectly to crackpot ideas. Is Jerry a sleeper agent? Did Ron leave behind a treasure map? Anything’s fair game, but we know at least one thing to be true: Jean-Ralphio is definitely the son of Stranger Things's Steve Harrington. Here are 10 other wild ideas. LESLIE KNOPE IS FILTHY RICH.Working in the public sector of Pawnee, Indiana, doesn’t seem like a lucrative gig, yet Leslie (Amy Poehler) always seems to have money for extravagant gifts.
She gives Ben (Adam Scott) a painstakingly replicated Iron Throne, all her girlfriends get custom art for Galentine’s Day, and she gives Ann (Rashida Jones) presents on each of her made-up holidays—including, but not limited to, “Breakfast Day.” that Leslie inherited a large sum of money when her father died or is living off a trust fund. Because how else could she pay for Ron’s (Nick Offerman) fantasy trip to Scotland? MARK BRENDANAWICZ IS DEAD.Mark Brendanawicz (Paul Schneider) was a key player in the first two seasons of Parks and Recreation, serving as a love interest for Leslie and then Ann. But at the end of season two, he quits his job as city planner and is never seen or heard from again.
No one even mentions him. This is pretty strange, considering how frequently the show revisits side characters like Tammy II (Megan Mullally) or Greg Pikitis (Cody Klop). Tumblr has a simple, bleak explanation:. This theory suggests Mark ended his life, which is why no one talks about it, or that “it was the Illuminati.” 3. JERRY GERGICH WAS A CULT LEADER. Ben Cohen, NBCUniversal Media, LLCRemember the? They’re Pawnee’s resident doomsday cult.
The Reasonablists believe Zorp is coming to destroy the world, although they’ve been wrong about that many, many times. It’s safe to say this cult is error-prone. You know who else is error-prone? Jerry Gergich (Jim O'Heir). One wild fan theory that Jerry was the original leader of the Reasonablists, back when they materialized in the 1970s.
He’s the right age for it and, more importantly, he’s very good at winning people over. Despite all their insults, Leslie and her team still love and support Jerry. He also managed to get Christie Brinkley ('Gayle') to marry him! Jerry eventually becomes an incredibly popular mayor, as we see in the flash-forwards.
Did his old cult turn out the vote in his favor? We may never know. RON SWANSON'S WILL IS ACTUALLY A TREASURE MAP.In his original “will,” Ron Swanson (Nick Offerman) left all his possessions to “the man or animal who has killed me.” It was handwritten on a scrap of paper, with a bunch of random symbols above the signature.
(Here’s a.) Reddit thinks those symbols aren’t so random; they’re clues pointing to Ron’s buried gold. The whole thing is pretty, but basically, the loot is in an old pioneer grave and Ron expected his killer to bury him on Deadman’s Island. PAWNEE IS CURSED.As we’ve learned from the gruesome paintings hanging in Pawnee City Hall, the area has a dark history. The Wamapoke Tribe members were slaughtered indiscriminately by the first Pawnee settlers, leaving behind just a few descendants, like Chief Ken Hotate (Jonathan Joss).
But Ken is doing pretty well—and so are the rest of the Wamapoke. They have a prosperous casino and great government connections. Meanwhile, the rest of Pawnee is struggling, as the frequent budget cuts and flailing city officials make clear.
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Some fans the Wamapoke cursed Pawnee, ensuring wealth for their people and doom for their oppressors. ANDY DWYER IS ANDY FROM TOY STORY. Colleen Hayes, NBCUniversal Media, LLCThe is pretty damning: Andy Dwyer (Chris Pratt) and Andy from Toy Story share the same first name. They have a mutual enthusiasm for guitars. They’re both playful and childish (in Toy Story Andy’s case, because he’s literally a child).
Could Andy Dwyer be the grown-up version of Buzz and Woody’s best friend? It sure sounds like it, especially when you consider his dream of becoming a cop. Maybe because his favorite toys growing up were a space ranger and sheriff?! ANN PERKINS IS IN THE WITNESS PROTECTION PROGRAM.has to do with Rashida Jones’s pre- Parks gig as Karen Filippelli on.
The story goes that Karen ended up being a star witness in the Scranton Strangler trial. Due to the case’s high profile, she entered the witness protection program. They sent her to the tiny town of Pawnee, Indiana, with a new alias: Ann Perkins. BEN WYATT BUILT ICE TOWN BECAUSE OF A KINK.Ice Town is a pretty dumb idea, even for a teen mayor. But teens do dumb things when their hormones kick in, and we know from his roller rink birthday party that Ben has a thing for women on skates. Did he bankrupt his hometown just to see a bunch of ladies on skates? JERRY IS A SLEEPER AGENT.If Jerry isn’t a cult leader, he’s definitely a sleeper agent.
Think about it: He’s got tons of skills, from piano playing to painting. He has a beautiful, unbelievably perfect family. He managed to snag a government job, where he has access to all sorts of sensitive information, even though he’s supposedly incompetent. And he gets very anxious when his coworkers decide to dig up dirt on each other. The entire Gergich family is in on the act, making their all the more sinister. JEAN-RALPHIO’S REAL DAD IS STEVE FROM STRANGER THINGS.Just look at them! The family resemblance is uncanny, but people have put serious thought into this hilarious., like Parks and Rec, takes place in Indiana.
If Steve and Nancy got unexpectedly pregnant soon after the events of the show, their kid would be Jean-Ralphio’s age. They probably wouldn’t be equipped to parent, considering all the trauma they’ve been through. So what if Steve’s older brother came back from medical school and took the baby in? Saperstein, who’s suddenly a tragic figure. No wonder he spoils Jean-Ralphio (Ben Schwartz) rotten: He knows his real dad is in the psych ward. With summer unfortunately winding down, one part of fall we have to look forward to is the slew of new releases hitting theaters, from horror flicks to comedies and everything in between.
As reported by, Fandango recently polled its users on which films they were most excited for going into the new season, and we now have.The two most popular movies from voters were IT Chapter Two, directed by Andy Muschietti, and Joker, directed by Todd Phillips. This comes as no surprise as the first IT was one of the biggest releases of 2017 and even became the of all time. As for Joker, Joaquin Phoenix's portrayal of DC's most famous villain is already generating Oscar buzz.Here's Fandango's full list of the most anticipated fall films:. It Chapter Two. Joker. Frozen II.
Terminator: Dark Fate. Zombieland: Double Tap. Maleficent: Mistress of Evil. A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood. Downton Abbey. Charlie’s Angels. Ad AstraAdditionally, Fandango determined fans' most-anticipated male and female performances, acting pairings, and movies by genre.
These polls determined that fans are looking forward to seeing Linda Hamilton return to her role as Sarah Connor in Terminator: Dark Fate and Tom Hanks play in A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood. In the early 1990s, Matt Vaughan bought a record collection with the intention of reselling some of its contents at Easy Street Records, his Seattle record store. He looked through it briefly and ended up putting the collection in storage.Last week, upon further inspection of the collection, Easy Street employees found a royalty check for $26.57 addressed to Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain. NME that the check was issued from Broadcast Music, Inc.
And dated March 6, 1991—just six months before released their legendary album Nevermind. Easy Street Records shared photos of the check on Instagram, noting in the caption that they’re “guessing the next royalty checks were a bit larger.”. View this post on Instagramon Aug 28, 2019 at 3:21pm PDTThough the check might be the most noteworthy item of Cobain’s in the record collection, it’s not the only one: Vaughan and his staff unearthed a money order to Cobain’s landlord, an old backstage pass, and even a past-due doctor’s bill. There are also itineraries for Nirvana’s 1992 tour following the release of Nevermind and their 1993 tour for In Utero.The inclusion of the tour itineraries could have been the reason the personal items were overlooked originally, because tour itineraries were very common at the time and therefore not deemed particularly interesting. “Seemed like every band in Seattle had tour itinerary books,” Vaughan told NME. “Between girlfriends, roadies, management, and sound companies, it wasn’t uncommon to run across one.”NME notes that $26.57 is about $50 today due to inflation, but the check itself could probably sell for much more if Vaughan decides to auction it off—the starting bids for a lock of and his expired were both in the thousands.h/t.