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BREAKING NEWS: Patrick Swayze Diagnosed with Terminal Cancer

Posted Mar 5th 2008 6:01PM by Kim Voynar
Filed under: New Releases, Fandom

Update: Swayze's reps hadn't commented more to Reuters at the time Moviefone ran their piece, but a reader kindly pointed us to this story on People that indicates a more optimistic outlook for Swayze. -- ed.

Well, this news is depressing as hell. Patrick Swayze, 55, has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.~~, and has only a short time to live.~~ According to a piece over on Moviefone, a rep for Swayze told the New York Post that the actor was diagnosed over a month ago. Swayze is perhaps best known for his leading role in Dirty Dancing, when his character, Johnny Castle, an older dance instructor, swept young and perky Jennifer Grey off her feet. My own favorite Swayze movies, though, are Red Dawn ("Wolverines!") and Ghost. The latter never fails to reduce me to a blubbering heap of tears, no matter how sternly I tell myself I won't cry this time.

I have no idea if Swayze reads Cinematical, but we would like to extend our condolences and sadness at this news, and wish him and his family well. I know we have lots of Swayze fans out there, so feel free to use this space to extend your own thoughts and well-wishes to Swayze. What's your favorite Swayze movie moment?

Blind Skier Bio Finally Sees a Screenwriter

Posted May 16th 2006 9:07AM by Christopher Campbell
Filed under: Drama, Sports, 20th Century Fox

When I close my eyes and try to imagine a serious movie about a blind skier, I can't help my mind from wandering in the direction of a Farrelly Brothers comedy. Does this make me a bad person? Probably. But that doesn't change the fact that blind skiing sounds like an awful idea, one that is just asking for chuckles from an ignorant, politically incorrect person such as myself. Well, the people at Fox 2000 must be doing a better job imagining than I am. They have a film in the works called Into the Light, which appears to be a serious movie about a real-life blind skiier. It turns out, there are plenty of blind people who not only ski, but ski really fast.

A year ago, Fox bought the rights to the true story of Michael May, an athlete who holds the record for downhill skiing for a completely blind person (which is 65 mph for those who are curious). Now producer Gil Netter, who just so happened to produce the Farrelly's Fever Pitch, has hired Bruce Joel Rubin, who won an Oscar for writing Ghost (wait, Ghost won a screenplay Oscar?), to adapt the soon-to-be-released book by Robert Kurson.

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Character actor Vincent Schiavelli dead at 57

Posted Dec 26th 2005 5:41PM by Kim Voynar
Filed under: Talent, Obits

As our friends over at TV Squad reported earlier today, character actor Vincent Schiavelli, well-known for playing the eccentric characters so perfectly suited to his droopy-eyed visage, passed away in Italy today of lung cancer at the age of 57. Schiavelli acted in over 150 films and television shows, including One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ghost, and Fast Times at Ridgemont High. You may not have known his name if someone dropped it at a cocktail party, but one look at his face, and you're bound to say, "Ohhhh! Him! Yeah, I know him! He's been in lots of movies!"

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BREAKING NEWS: Patrick Swayze Diagnosed with Terminal Cancer

Blind Skier Bio Finally Sees a Screenwriter

Character actor Vincent Schiavelli dead at 57

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