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Patrick Swayze
Publicist: Patrick Swayze dies at 57Associated Press - 43 minutes ago
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Patrick Swayze
FILE - In this Nov. 28, 2005 file photo, actor Patrick Swayze poses for the photographers, prior to the premiere of his new film 'Keeping Mum' at a Leicester Square cinema in central London. Swayze's publicist Annett Wolf says the 57-year-old 'Dirty Dancing' actor died Monday, Sept. 14, 2009, after a nearly two-year battle with pancreatic cancer. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, file)Associated Press
LOS ANGELES - Patrick Swayze, the hunky actor who danced his way into viewers' hearts with "Dirty Dancing" and then broke them with "Ghost," died Monday after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 57.
"Patrick Swayze passed away peacefully today with family at his side after facing the challenges of his illness for the last 20 months," said a statement released Monday evening by his publicist, Annett Wolf. No other details were given.
Fans of the actor were saddened to learn in March 2008 that Swayze was suffering from a particularly deadly form of cancer.
He had kept working despite the diagnosis, putting together a memoir with his wife and shooting "The Beast," an A&E drama series for which he had already made the pilot. It drew a respectable 1.3 million viewers when the 13 episodes ran in 2009, but A&E said it had reluctantly decided not to renew it for a second season.
Swayze said he opted not to use painkilling drugs while making "The Beast" because they would have taken the edge off his performance. He acknowledged that time might be running out given the grim nature of the disease.
When he first went public with the illness, some reports gave him only weeks to live, but his doctor said his situation was "considerably more optimistic" than that.
"I'd say five years is pretty wishful thinking," Swayze told ABC's Barbara Walters in early 2009. "Two years seems likely if you're going to believe statistics. I want to last until they find a cure, which means I'd better get a fire under it."
A three-time Golden Globe nominee, Swayze became a star with his performance as the misunderstood bad-boy Johnny Castle in "Dirty Dancing." As the son of a choreographer who began his career in musical theater, he seemed a natural to play the role.
A coming-of-age romance starring Jennifer Grey as an idealistic young woman on vacation with her family and Swayze as the Catskills resort's sexy (and much older) dance instructor, the film made great use of both his grace on his feet and his muscular physique.
It became an international phenomenon in the summer of 1987, spawning albums, an Oscar-winning hit song in "(I've Had) the Time of My Life," stage productions and a sequel, 2004's "Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights," in which he made a cameo.
Swayze performed and co-wrote a song on the soundtrack, the ballad "She's Like the Wind," inspired by his wife, Lisa Niemi. The film also gave him the chance to utter the now-classic line, "Nobody puts Baby in a corner."
And it allowed him to poke fun at himself on a "Saturday Night Live" episode, in which he played a wannabe Chippendales dancer alongside the corpulent and frighteningly shirtless Chris Farley.
A major crowdpleaser, the film drew only mixed reviews from critics, though Vincent Canby wrote in The New York Times, "Given the limitations of his role, that of a poor but handsome sex-object abused by the rich women at Kellerman's Mountain House, Mr. Swayze is also good. ... He's at his best -- as is the movie -- when he's dancing."
Swayze followed that up with the 1989 action flick "Road House," in which he played a bouncer at a rowdy bar. But it was his performance in 1990's "Ghost" that showed his vulnerable, sensitive side. He starred as a murdered man trying to communicate with his fiancee (Demi Moore) -- with great frustration and longing -- through a psychic played by Whoopi Goldberg.
Swayze said at the time that he fought for the role of Sam Wheat (director Jerry Zucker wanted Kevin Kline) but once he went in for an audition and read six scenes, he got it.
Why did he want the part so badly? "It made me cry four or five times," he said of Bruce Joel Rubin's Oscar-winning script in an AP interview.
"Ghost" provided yet another indelible musical moment: Swayze and Moore sensually molding pottery together to the strains of the Righteous Brothers' "Unchained Melody." It also earned a best-picture nomination and a supporting-actress Oscar for Goldberg, who said she wouldn't have won if it weren't for Swayze.
"When I won my Academy Award, the only person I really thanked was Patrick," Goldberg said in March 2008 on the ABC daytime talk show "The View."
Swayze himself earned three Golden Globe nominations, for "Dirty Dancing," "Ghost" and 1995's "To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar," which further allowed him to toy with his masculine image. The role called for him to play a drag queen on a cross-country road trip alongside Wesley Snipes and John Leguizamo.
His heartthrob status almost kept him from being considered for the role of Vida Boheme.
"I couldn't get seen on it because everyone viewed me as terminally heterosexually masculine-macho," he told the AP then. But he transformed himself so completely that when his screen test was sent to Steven Spielberg, whose Amblin pictures produced "To Wong Foo," Spielberg didn't recognize him.
Among his earlier films, Swayze was part of the star-studded lineup of up-and-comers in Francis Ford Coppola's 1983 adaptation of S.E. Hinton's novel "The Outsiders," alongside Rob Lowe, Tom Cruise, Matt Dillon, Ralph Macchio, Emilio Estevez and Diane Lane. Swayze played Darrel "Dary" Curtis, the oldest of three wayward brothers -- and essentially the father figure -- in a poor family in small-town Oklahoma.
Other '80s films included "Red Dawn," "Grandview U.S.A." (for which he also provided choreography) and "Youngblood," once more with Lowe, as Canadian hockey teammates.
In the '90s, he made such eclectic films as "Point Break" (1991), in which he played the leader of a band of bank-robbing surfers, and the family Western "Tall Tale" (1995), in which he starred as Pecos Bill. He appeared on the cover of People magazine as its "Sexiest Man Alive" in 1991, but his career tapered off toward the end of the 1990s, when he also had stay in rehab for alcohol abuse. In 2001, he appeared in the cult favorite "Donnie Darko," and in 2003 he returned to the New York stage with "Chicago"; 2006 found him in the musical "Guys and Dolls" in London.
Swayze was born in 1952 in Houston, the son of Jesse Swayze and choreographer Patsy Swayze, whose films include "Urban Cowboy."
He played football but also was drawn to dance and theater, performing with the Feld, Joffrey and Harkness Ballets and appearing on Broadway as Danny Zuko in "Grease." But he turned to acting in 1978 after a series of injuries.
Within a couple years of moving to Los Angeles, he made his debut in the roller-disco movie "Skatetown, U.S.A." The eclectic cast included Scott Baio, Flip Wilson, Maureen McCormack and Billy Barty.
Swayze had a couple of movies in the works when his diagnosis was announced, including the drama "Powder Blue," starring Jessica Biel, Forest Whitaker and his younger brother, Don, which was scheduled for release this year.
Off-screen, he was an avid conservationist who was moved by his time in Africa to shine a light on "man's greed and absolute unwillingness to operate according to Mother Nature's laws," he told the AP in 2004.
Swayze was married since 1975 to Niemi, a fellow dancer who took lessons with his mother; they met when he was 19 and she was 15. A licensed pilot, Niemi would fly her husband from Los Angeles to Northern California for treatment at Stanford University Medical Center, People magazine reported in a cover story.
celebs:
Patrick Swayze
FILE - In this Nov. 28, 2005 file photo, actor Patrick Swayze poses for the photographers, prior to the premiere of his new film 'Keeping Mum' at a Leicester Square cinema in central London. Swayze's publicist Annett Wolf says the 57-year-old 'Dirty Dancing' actor died Monday, Sept. 14, 2009, after a nearly two-year battle with pancreatic cancer. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, file)Associated Press
LOS ANGELES - Patrick Swayze, the hunky actor who danced his way into viewers' hearts with "Dirty Dancing" and then broke them with "Ghost," died Monday after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 57.
"Patrick Swayze passed away peacefully today with family at his side after facing the challenges of his illness for the last 20 months," said a statement released Monday evening by his publicist, Annett Wolf. No other details were given.
Fans of the actor were saddened to learn in March 2008 that Swayze was suffering from a particularly deadly form of cancer.
He had kept working despite the diagnosis, putting together a memoir with his wife and shooting "The Beast," an A&E drama series for which he had already made the pilot. It drew a respectable 1.3 million viewers when the 13 episodes ran in 2009, but A&E said it had reluctantly decided not to renew it for a second season.
Swayze said he opted not to use painkilling drugs while making "The Beast" because they would have taken the edge off his performance. He acknowledged that time might be running out given the grim nature of the disease.
When he first went public with the illness, some reports gave him only weeks to live, but his doctor said his situation was "considerably more optimistic" than that.
"I'd say five years is pretty wishful thinking," Swayze told ABC's Barbara Walters in early 2009. "Two years seems likely if you're going to believe statistics. I want to last until they find a cure, which means I'd better get a fire under it."
A three-time Golden Globe nominee, Swayze became a star with his performance as the misunderstood bad-boy Johnny Castle in "Dirty Dancing." As the son of a choreographer who began his career in musical theater, he seemed a natural to play the role.
A coming-of-age romance starring Jennifer Grey as an idealistic young woman on vacation with her family and Swayze as the Catskills resort's sexy (and much older) dance instructor, the film made great use of both his grace on his feet and his muscular physique.
It became an international phenomenon in the summer of 1987, spawning albums, an Oscar-winning hit song in "(I've Had) the Time of My Life," stage productions and a sequel, 2004's "Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights," in which he made a cameo.
Swayze performed and co-wrote a song on the soundtrack, the ballad "She's Like the Wind," inspired by his wife, Lisa Niemi. The film also gave him the chance to utter the now-classic line, "Nobody puts Baby in a corner."
And it allowed him to poke fun at himself on a "Saturday Night Live" episode, in which he played a wannabe Chippendales dancer alongside the corpulent and frighteningly shirtless Chris Farley.
A major crowdpleaser, the film drew only mixed reviews from critics, though Vincent Canby wrote in The New York Times, "Given the limitations of his role, that of a poor but handsome sex-object abused by the rich women at Kellerman's Mountain House, Mr. Swayze is also good. ... He's at his best -- as is the movie -- when he's dancing."
Swayze followed that up with the 1989 action flick "Road House," in which he played a bouncer at a rowdy bar. But it was his performance in 1990's "Ghost" that showed his vulnerable, sensitive side. He starred as a murdered man trying to communicate with his fiancee (Demi Moore) -- with great frustration and longing -- through a psychic played by Whoopi Goldberg.
Swayze said at the time that he fought for the role of Sam Wheat (director Jerry Zucker wanted Kevin Kline) but once he went in for an audition and read six scenes, he got it.
Why did he want the part so badly? "It made me cry four or five times," he said of Bruce Joel Rubin's Oscar-winning script in an AP interview.
"Ghost" provided yet another indelible musical moment: Swayze and Moore sensually molding pottery together to the strains of the Righteous Brothers' "Unchained Melody." It also earned a best-picture nomination and a supporting-actress Oscar for Goldberg, who said she wouldn't have won if it weren't for Swayze.
"When I won my Academy Award, the only person I really thanked was Patrick," Goldberg said in March 2008 on the ABC daytime talk show "The View."
Swayze himself earned three Golden Globe nominations, for "Dirty Dancing," "Ghost" and 1995's "To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar," which further allowed him to toy with his masculine image. The role called for him to play a drag queen on a cross-country road trip alongside Wesley Snipes and John Leguizamo.
His heartthrob status almost kept him from being considered for the role of Vida Boheme.
"I couldn't get seen on it because everyone viewed me as terminally heterosexually masculine-macho," he told the AP then. But he transformed himself so completely that when his screen test was sent to Steven Spielberg, whose Amblin pictures produced "To Wong Foo," Spielberg didn't recognize him.
Among his earlier films, Swayze was part of the star-studded lineup of up-and-comers in Francis Ford Coppola's 1983 adaptation of S.E. Hinton's novel "The Outsiders," alongside Rob Lowe, Tom Cruise, Matt Dillon, Ralph Macchio, Emilio Estevez and Diane Lane. Swayze played Darrel "Dary" Curtis, the oldest of three wayward brothers -- and essentially the father figure -- in a poor family in small-town Oklahoma.
Other '80s films included "Red Dawn," "Grandview U.S.A." (for which he also provided choreography) and "Youngblood," once more with Lowe, as Canadian hockey teammates.
In the '90s, he made such eclectic films as "Point Break" (1991), in which he played the leader of a band of bank-robbing surfers, and the family Western "Tall Tale" (1995), in which he starred as Pecos Bill. He appeared on the cover of People magazine as its "Sexiest Man Alive" in 1991, but his career tapered off toward the end of the 1990s, when he also had stay in rehab for alcohol abuse. In 2001, he appeared in the cult favorite "Donnie Darko," and in 2003 he returned to the New York stage with "Chicago"; 2006 found him in the musical "Guys and Dolls" in London.
Swayze was born in 1952 in Houston, the son of Jesse Swayze and choreographer Patsy Swayze, whose films include "Urban Cowboy."
He played football but also was drawn to dance and theater, performing with the Feld, Joffrey and Harkness Ballets and appearing on Broadway as Danny Zuko in "Grease." But he turned to acting in 1978 after a series of injuries.
Within a couple years of moving to Los Angeles, he made his debut in the roller-disco movie "Skatetown, U.S.A." The eclectic cast included Scott Baio, Flip Wilson, Maureen McCormack and Billy Barty.
Swayze had a couple of movies in the works when his diagnosis was announced, including the drama "Powder Blue," starring Jessica Biel, Forest Whitaker and his younger brother, Don, which was scheduled for release this year.
Off-screen, he was an avid conservationist who was moved by his time in Africa to shine a light on "man's greed and absolute unwillingness to operate according to Mother Nature's laws," he told the AP in 2004.
Swayze was married since 1975 to Niemi, a fellow dancer who took lessons with his mother; they met when he was 19 and she was 15. A licensed pilot, Niemi would fly her husband from Los Angeles to Northern California for treatment at Stanford University Medical Center, People magazine reported in a cover story.
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Introducing Ms.Deidre Baumann
Good evening!
Ladies and Gentlemen
OYE!
Please join me (Chef Papi Perez) introducing and supporting Ms. Deidre Baumann this
Friday (September 11,2009) @6:30p.m.
Location: La Fonda del Gusto 1408 North Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60622
We need your support!
Light appetizers will be provided (also I recommended food from the menu which is great) Please support this great business!
Deidre Baumann
I believe society is best served by a judiciary whose proceedings are free from influence and prejudice. My mission as a judge will be to diligently use my legal expertise, integrity and compassion to serve ALL people, and ensure the search for truth results in Equal Justice under the law.
My experience includes:
Numerous trials won in both federal and state courts.
Over 16 years of successful civil litigation practice.
Wrote hundreds of respected appellate and substantive legal briefs.
Diverse practice, including civil rights, employment discrimination, personal injury, and Constitutional law.
Dedicated community and bar association leader.
Committed to equal justice for all people.
I am running for judge because I believe I can bring fresh energy and an independent voice to our court system. I have the perspective of a long-time Chicago resident, and the knowledge of an active community member who has worked across a wide spectrum of urban issues. I bring the professional lens of years spent in law, and a passion borne out of many inner city experiences.
For more information, please visit my website at deidrebaumannforjudge.com Your support is greatly appreciated!
Deidre Baumann
I believe society is best served by a judiciary whose proceedings are free from influence and prejudice. My mission as a judge will be to diligently use my legal expertise, integrity and compassion to serve ALL people, and ensure the search for truth results in Equal Justice under the law.
My experience includes:
Numerous trials won in both federal and state courts.
Over 16 years of successful civil litigation practice.
Wrote hundreds of respected appellate and substantive legal briefs.
Diverse practice, including civil rights, employment discrimination, personal injury, and Constitutional law.
Dedicated community and bar association leader.
Committed to equal justice for all people.
I am running for judge because I believe I can bring fresh energy and an independent voice to our court system. I have the perspective of a long-time Chicago resident, and the knowledge of an active community member who has worked across a wide spectrum of urban issues. I bring the professional lens of years spent in law, and a passion borne out of many inner city experiences.
For more information, please visit my website at deidrebaumannforjudge.com Your support is greatly appreciated!
Deidre Baumann
Introducing Deidre Baumann
Good evening
Ladies and Gentlemen
Please join me and Ms. Deidre Baumann this Friday (September 11,2009) evening @6:30 p.m.
Location: La Fonda del Gusto 1408 North Milwaukee Ave
We need your support !
Light appetizers will be provided (please feel free to order from the menu to support this business)
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Chef- Congratulations!! Everyone at Culinary Classics enjoyed the photos you sent in. There were some great shots that got all of us smiling. We are happy to let you know that you have come in 3rd place in our “Chef in Action” contest! We would like to extend to you a $100 credit for all made to order Culinary Classics apparel. We truly appreciate your business and time in sending over the photos, it is great to see customers working hard to master their craft.
FAMILIA LATINA UNIDA
MINISTRIES
2716 W Division St. Chicago Il. 60622 // 2242 S DAMEN AVE, Chicago Il. 60608
773-782-8464
Pastor Walter L Coleman
Pastora Emma Lozano
BECAUSE: We are facing a flu pandemic in Chicago...
and BECAUSE preparation and planning with correct
information at the local community level can save lives...
Alderman Danny Solis
and Familia Latina Unida Ministries
Invite you to a focused, two hour,
Flu Pandemic Preparedness Workshop
Friday, September 4th,
2 P.M. TO 4 P.M.
Lincoln United Methodist Church
2242 S Damen, Chicago, Il. 60608
With the support and leadership of the Illinois Department of Public Health and the Illinois Faith Based Preparedness Initiative
participants will:
1) Receive the most up to date guidelines and information on preparing for and responding to the H1N1 Flu virus, including recommendations for vaccination, and
2) Work together in small groups through different scenarios of flu outbreak
intensity as they would effect our local schools, parks, businesses, homes, clinics, hospitals and communities in order to improve our community response.
For more information or to confirm your participation:
Call 773/782-8464
----Spanish
PORQUE: Estamos enfrentando una pandemia de gripe en Chicago
y PORQUE preparación y planificación con información correcta al
nivel del vecindario puede salvar vidas...
El Concejal Danny Solís y
El Ministerio de Familias Latinas Unida
los Invita a un Taller de dos horas, enfocado,
Preparación para una Pandémica de Gripe
Viernes, 4 de Septiembre,
2 P.M. A 4 P.M.
Iglesia Lincoln UMC
2242 S Damen, Chicago, Il. 60608
Con el apoyo y el liderazgo del Departamento de Salud de Illinois y la Iniciativa de preparación en Illinois Basada de Fe le proveerán
a los participantes lo siguiente:
1) Recibirán la información más reciente para preparar y para poder responder al virus de la Gripe H1N1, incluyendo recomendaciones para vacunación, y
2.) Trabajaran juntos en pequeños grupos usando guiones de diferentes intensidad de estallido de gripe de acuerdo a como afectara a nuestras escuelas locales, los parques, los negocios, las casas, los hospitales y varias
comunidades para mejorar como nuestra comunidad puede responder
a una pandemia de gripa.
Para más información o para confirmar su participación:
Llama a 773/782-8464
MINISTRIES
2716 W Division St. Chicago Il. 60622 // 2242 S DAMEN AVE, Chicago Il. 60608
773-782-8464
Pastor Walter L Coleman
Pastora Emma Lozano
BECAUSE: We are facing a flu pandemic in Chicago...
and BECAUSE preparation and planning with correct
information at the local community level can save lives...
Alderman Danny Solis
and Familia Latina Unida Ministries
Invite you to a focused, two hour,
Flu Pandemic Preparedness Workshop
Friday, September 4th,
2 P.M. TO 4 P.M.
Lincoln United Methodist Church
2242 S Damen, Chicago, Il. 60608
With the support and leadership of the Illinois Department of Public Health and the Illinois Faith Based Preparedness Initiative
participants will:
1) Receive the most up to date guidelines and information on preparing for and responding to the H1N1 Flu virus, including recommendations for vaccination, and
2) Work together in small groups through different scenarios of flu outbreak
intensity as they would effect our local schools, parks, businesses, homes, clinics, hospitals and communities in order to improve our community response.
For more information or to confirm your participation:
Call 773/782-8464
----Spanish
PORQUE: Estamos enfrentando una pandemia de gripe en Chicago
y PORQUE preparación y planificación con información correcta al
nivel del vecindario puede salvar vidas...
El Concejal Danny Solís y
El Ministerio de Familias Latinas Unida
los Invita a un Taller de dos horas, enfocado,
Preparación para una Pandémica de Gripe
Viernes, 4 de Septiembre,
2 P.M. A 4 P.M.
Iglesia Lincoln UMC
2242 S Damen, Chicago, Il. 60608
Con el apoyo y el liderazgo del Departamento de Salud de Illinois y la Iniciativa de preparación en Illinois Basada de Fe le proveerán
a los participantes lo siguiente:
1) Recibirán la información más reciente para preparar y para poder responder al virus de la Gripe H1N1, incluyendo recomendaciones para vacunación, y
2.) Trabajaran juntos en pequeños grupos usando guiones de diferentes intensidad de estallido de gripe de acuerdo a como afectara a nuestras escuelas locales, los parques, los negocios, las casas, los hospitales y varias
comunidades para mejorar como nuestra comunidad puede responder
a una pandemia de gripa.
Para más información o para confirmar su participación:
Llama a 773/782-8464
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