Patrick
Swazye is dying of terminal cancer of the pancreas and has been given
five weeks to live. Which, oh my god. SO TERRIBLE.
Although he's
been married for a gazillion, he and wife Lisa Neimi never had
children, so he's kind of outside the purview of this site's gossip
mandate (all parents, all the time), but still - he was a key pop
figure on the cultural landscape of every Gen-X/Y man and woman I know,
which is to say, my peer group of thirty-something parents, so. Who
can't recite half the lines to Dirty Dancing? Nobody my age, that's
who. So his impending death just feels, well, terrible and weird.
Weren't he and his wife going to soft-shoe in the background of our
pop-culture consciences forever?
National Enquirer is breaking the story, which they apparently have on good authority from Swayze and family:
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