Patrick Swayze

Demi Moore, Patrick Swayze in Ghost

Patrick Swayze, the star of Dirty Dancing and Ghost, died from complications from pancreatic cancer yesterday in Los Angeles. Swayze was 57.
The Texan-born Swayze (on Aug. 18, 1952, in Houston), whose background included classical dance training, became a star after playing the romantic lead in the sleeper hit Dirty Dancing (1987), directed by Emile Ardolino and co-starring Jennifer Grey. However, Swayze’s follow-up releases — the little-seen Tiger Warsaw; Next of Kin, as a rough cop; and Road House, as a bouncer — were disappointments.
Swayze’s career took another upward turn with Jerry Zucker’s Ghost, a 1990 supernatural romantic comedy-melorama-thriller in which he dies but hangs around so as to find out the identity [...]

Golden Globes 2009: Sandra Bullock, Ashton Kutcher, Demi Moore

Sandra Bullock © HFPA / 66th Golden Globe® Awards

Ashton Kutcher, Demi Moore © HFPA / 66th Golden Globe® Awards

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