A very sad day for family friends and fans alike. Patrick Swayze passed away last night from Ppancreatic cancer
Publicist: Patrick Swayze dies at 57
While I have enjoyed all his moivies, from Red Dawn to Dirty Dancing and even Roadhouse, I always cry when I watch Ghost and laugh myself silly at To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar.
The world is a poorer place today for his absence.
Patrick, Godspeed
Diana
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People Who Died (RIP Jim Carroll)
Patrick Swayze was okay. I loved GHOST, and he was a hoot in TOO WONG FOO. I'm sorry he died.
But I was shocked to learn today that somebody whose works and life I care a lot more about died on 9/11/2009. Author, poet and punk rocker Jim Carroll. Who, you ask?
He wrote THE BASKETBALL DIARIES, which was made into a film starring Leonard Di Caprio.
Here's a link to his wikipedia biography, just updated to include his death of a heart attack
(at his desk, writing) at the age of 59:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Carroll
This seems to be how it goes with artists I care about. They're not big names and I usually only hear about their deaths months later. Like how I only found out recently that a favorite author JG BALLARD died in April. And when my all time favorite musician Captain Beefheart dies it probably won't make headlines either.
~~~hugs, Laika
What borders on pure insanity?
Canada and Mexico.
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Had I known, Laika.
I'd have let you know re JG Ballard. Link is his obituary in the Guardian.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/apr/19/jg-ballard-obituary
Angharad
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