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Patrick Swayze was born in 1952 in Houston. His father was a chemical plant engineer and his mother was a dancer and choreographer. In high school, Patrick was a talented football player as well as a gymnast, earning him an athletic scholarship to college. Patrick focused his talents on dancing at a young age. He attended several ballet schools, including the Joffrey Ballet. He was the principal dancer with the Eliot Feld company.
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Allhiphop.com reports that Patrick Swayze wants to release a rap single. The actor, who had a hit in 1987 with She's Like the Wind, told the site he's working on a new tune which will show that "rap rhythms [are] an emotional undercurrent for ballads." Swayze didn't have a timeline for when his foray into hip-hop would be released.
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Summer 1963: during her family's annual summer vacation in the Catskills, teenager Baby (Jennifer Grey) meets dance instructor Johnny Castle (Patrick Swayze), who sweeps her off her feet. Baby becomes Johnny's dance partner, despite her parents' disapproval,
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It is curious that the fairly close relationship (double 7th cousins, as well as 8th cousins) of the actors William Holden (born William Franklin Beedle) and Patrick Swayze has not been more widely recognized. Their ancestors, the brothers Richard and the Rev. Samuel Swazey, respectively, married their own cousins — who were themselves two sisters — Sarah and Hannah Horton, and the two families appear to have lived in the same areas of New Jersey and Mississippi for several generations. The Rev. Samuel Swazey (or Swezey or Sweazey) was an influential Congregational minister who was followed by much of his flock, and especially, many of his kin, from Black River, Chester Tp., Morris Co., N.J., to Natchez, Adams Co., Mississippi, in 1772. Incidentally, the rather un-English “Swayze” spelling of the surname appears to be relatively modern, and although it has been applied retrospectively to early members of the family, it occurs in none of the 17th- or early-18th-century sources we have seen; in fact, we have not found an example earlier than 1780.
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Francis Ford Coppola's drama about teen turmoil in rural Oklahoma features nearly every big name of 1980s cinema -- including Tom Cruise, Matt Dillon, Emilio Estevez, C. Thomas Howell, Diane Lane, Ralph Macchio and Patrick Swayze. In this faithful adaptation of S.E. Read More
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On 1 June 2000, actor Patrick Swayze escaped injury after he made an emergency landing in a housing development in Prescott Valley, AZ. He had been en route from Van Nuys, CA to Las Vegas, NM when his aircraft apparently had a pressurization problem at about 13,000 feet. The following synopsis is taken from the NTSB report on the accident.
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