Patrick Swayze

Patrick Wayne Swayze (18 August 1952 – September 14, 2009) was an American actor, dancer and singer-songwriter. He was best-known for his roles as romantic leading men in the films Dirty Dancing and Ghost and as Orry Main in the North and South television miniseries. He was named by People magazine as its "Sexiest Man Alive" in 1991.
Swayze was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in early 2008. He continued acting until, in 2009, he became too ill to do so.


Title : She's Like The Wind
Artist : Patrick Swayze featuring Wendy Fraser
year : 1987
chart : #3 Billboard Hot 100
album : Dirty Dancing Soundtrack



Final Acting On-Screen Performance :
A&E original mini-series "The Beast" (shown in Asia on the AXN TV Networks).

Reception for The Beast :
Patrick Swayze's performance was highly praised.

• Alan Sepinwall writes "...you watch Swayze in "The Beast", and you realize that this is the best performance of his career - that the opportunity to play a part like this, and to play it as well as he is, may be fueling his ability to keep fighting against the cancer. And you realize, in an odd silver lining, that the cancer may, in turn, be fueling the performance".
• The New York Times writes that "Patrick Swayze's performance... is impressive for its resistance to cliché...".
• Suzan Young writes: "Patrick Swayze gives the performance of a lifetime as the hard-edged FBI agent Charles Barker in A&E's The Beast".
• Ray Richmond writes: "'Beast' has a far grittier feel and look than one would suspect from a show starring Swayze – not to mention one on A&E. The action often is energetic and intriguing but is sometimes brought down by Fimmel's uneven performance. …What's unmistakable is the killer work of the star. May the man somehow beat the odds and fight defiantly on".
• Kelly West writes: "For an original series, I think A&E has something great on their hands. The Beast is definitely drama series with an edge, showing the darker, grittier side to FBI undercover work".

Patrick Swayze at Wikipedia : Here

Audio : She's Like The Wind

Bobby Womack - Across The 110th Street

title : Across The 110th Street
artist : Bobby Womack
year charted : 1973
chart : #56 Billboard Hot 100, #19 R&B
album : Across The 110th Street Soundtrack (1972)

about the song :
The film's title song was critically-praised but did not do well on the charts

was later featured in Quentin Tarantino's 1997 blaxploitation homage Jackie Brown

was also heard in Ridley Scott's 2007 American Gangster

was a background song for the video game True Crime: New York City


about the singer :
On January 14, 2009 Womack was announced as one of the 2009 inductees to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He was inducted on April 4
Bobby Womack factfile

lyrics :
I was the third brother of five,
Doing whatever I had to do to survive.
I'm not saying what I did was alright,
Trying to break out of the ghetto was a day to day
fight.
Been down so long, getting up didn't cross my mind,
I knew there was a better way of life that I was just
trying to find.
You don't know what you'll do until you're put under
pressure,
Across 110th Street is a hell of a tester.

Across 110th Street,
Pimps trying to catch a woman that's weak
Across 110th Street,
Pushers won't let the junkie go free.
Across 110th Street,
Woman trying to catch a trick on the street.
Across 110th Street,
You can find it all in the street.

I got one more thing I'd like to y'all about right now.
Hey brother, there's a better way out.
Snorting that coke, shooting that dope man you're
copping out.
Take my advice, it's either live or die.
You've got to be strong, if you want to survive.

The family on the other side of town,
Would catch hell without a ghetto around.
In every city you find the same thing going down,
Harlem is the capital of every ghetto town.

Across 110th Street,
Pimps trying to catch a woman that's weak
Across 110th Street,
Pushers won't let the junkie go free.
Across 110th Street,
A woman trying to catch a trick on the street, ouh baby
Across 110th Street,
You can find it all in the street.
Yes he can, oh

Look around you, just look around you,
Look around you, look around you, uh yeah