Comments on: Through Every Open Door: Patrick Swayze, 1952-2009

By: cordelia

cordelia — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:05:59 +0000

Thank you for this beautiful post.

By: Lori Watts

Lori Watts — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 23:04:20 +0000

I loved Dirty Dancing as well, but, because I am a professional potter, Patrick Swayze will, to my mind, forever be The Man Who Made Pottery Sexy.
May he be happy in the next world.

By: Olga

Olga — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 04:10:10 +0000

I didn’t know he died. Reading this blog and the comments have made me teary eyed. I fell like watching it right now.

Every summer my best friend and I used to re-enact the scene in the water where he tries to hold her up (plank form) above his head. We never had the upper body strength or balance to pull it off, but we had a lot of fun trying.

By: AprilLayne

AprilLayne — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 03:27:54 +0000

This is a lovely essay–beautifully written and just a perfect tribute to Swayze.

By: mischiefmanager

mischiefmanager — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:37:02 +0000

And it’s one of the few movies that deals with abortion in a realistic and positive way.

Hard week for celebrity deaths-Jim Carroll and now this.

By: rodriguez

rodriguez — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:11:19 +0000

omg the sheer joy of movement in dance makes me weep…sometimes I see people dancing who can make sparks fly from their heels and I wish for it so bad I would trade just about any other talent. RIP Patrick Swayze.

By: peenerbambina

peenerbambina — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:42:02 +0000

I love Dirty Dancing and always will. And I always felt that Baby came out of it rather powerfully, even though she was called Baby. She stood up to her controlling father, shouted Johnny down when he was snippy with her, took control of her sexuality (I think that love scene is one of my faves because she approaches him, she instigates the whole thing), she does quite a bit and does it her own way. I love Patrick and think his death is a great loss.

By: rainy_day

rainy_day — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 06:32:41 +0000

Dearest Pilgrim Soul,

I actually *did* critique what Dirty Dancing said about gender and class. I wrote a 50 page paper on this movie and other 80s coming-of-age films.

Dirty Dancing is the only one I can still watch without cringing.

RIP, Patrick Swayze. We’ll keep Baby out of that corner.

By: tallgirl-in-heels

tallgirl-in-heels — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 06:08:30 +0000

I saw Dirty Dancing in the theater five times, which is my all-time record for movies. I too was a gangly, cerebral girl, and everything you wrote – beautifully – is spot on.

By: J.D.Regent

J.D.Regent — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 05:04:03 +0000

I just totally lost it over at People’s tribute to his 34 year marriage to his high school sweetheart.