In high school, I hung out with a group of boys that were a bit obsessed with Point Break. I hate to admit that I can likely still recite the movie to this day having seen it every time we ended up at my friend Emmanuel's house after some party.
Dirty Dancing. Ghost and Road House are three of Swayze's other films that are, for whatever reason, on permanent rotation on late night TV. So for years, after coming home at some ridiculous hour from this or that event, I would invariably end up eating whatever was left in the fridge while marveling at Patrick Swayze's perfect dancer's physique. I always thought he seemed so earnest in all of his roles and thereby liked him – he was a good guy. Then, after I saw him on SNL years later in a skit with the late Chris Farley as a Chip & Dale dancer – it sealed the deal. I thought, here's a man that can laugh at himself. He'll be missed by many.
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