He Definitely Put the “Dirty” in “Dancing”
By Glinda“Nobody puts Baby in a corner.”
What young woman, or older woman for that matter, didn’t swoon when Patrick Swayze uttered those immortal words?
This has been a bad year for former teen icons, what with Patrick’s death yesterday from pancreatic cancer.
I remember “Dirty Dancing” being a bit more, uh, arousing than a lot of the other movies targeted at teens at that time. There was something so deliciously wrong about someone as old as Johnny Castle being involved with someone as young as Baby, but that was where I got my vicarious thrill. I was fourteen or so at the time this came out, and it was definitely one of the sexiest movies my Catholic-school bred eyes had yet to see.
I also got my thrills from watching Patrick Swayze’s fantastic physique. And even better, married and stayed married to his young sweetheart, being together for 34 years.
So let us remember Mr. Swayze in all of his former glory. Rest in peace.