Conservative gym teacher Kitty Farmer ( Beth Grant ) blames the flooding on the influence of the short story " The Destructors ", assigned by English teacher Karen Pomeroy ( Drew Barrymore ), and begins teaching attitude lessons taken from motivational speaker Jim Cunningham ( Patrick Swayze ).

He was signed to a publishing agreement with Famous Music ( Paramount Pictures ) from the late 1980s through the 1990s and has written songs for movies and TV productions such as the big-screen hit Point Break starring Keanu Reeves, Patrick Swayze and the well-known TV series ' Beverly Hills, 90210 and 21 Jump Street featuring Johnny Depp.

Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze, in one of the most famous scenes from the movie

Both films also featured memorable performances from a number of young male actors who would go on to become leading men in the next decade ( as well as members of the so-called " Brat Pack "), including Tom Cruise, Rob Lowe, C. Thomas Howell, Emilio Estevez, the late Patrick Swayze, Mickey Rourke, Nicolas Cage, and Matt Dillon.

Launched in February 1948 by NBC, Camel Newsreel Theatre was a 10-minute program anchored by John Cameron Swayze, and featured newsreels from Movietone News.

At the 1992 MTV Movie Awards, Point Break was nominated for three awards including " Most Desirable Male " ( Keanu Reeves ), " Most Desirable Male " ( Patrick Swayze ), and " Best Action Sequence " for the second jump from the plane.

Swayze was seriously injured in 1998 while filming HBO's Letters from a Killer near Ione, California when he fell from a horse and hit a tree.

Swayze was married to Lisa Niemi from June 12, 1975, until his death.

As a reaction to his father's death at age 57 from a heart attack in 1982, Swayze began to drink heavily.

Swayze, who was a certified pilot with an instrument rating, made the news on June 1, 2000, while flying with his dogs in his twin-engine Cessna from Van Nuys, California to Las Vegas.

According to the police report, witnesses said that Swayze appeared to be extremely intoxicated and asked for help to remove evidence — an open bottle of wine and a 30-pack of beer — from the crash site.

Patrick Swayze also required a hospital visit ; insisting on doing his own stunts, he repeatedly fell off of the log during the " balancing " scene and injured his knee so badly he had to have fluid drained from the swelling.

" Nobody puts Baby in a corner " was quoted in Supernatural, when Dean says the line concerning his beloved Impala and his brother Sam retorts that the line is from a Swayze movie, Dean responds: " Swayze always gets a pass ".

Road House is a 1989 action film directed by Rowdy Herrington and starring Patrick Swayze as a bouncer at a newly-refurbished roadside bar who protects a small town in Missouri from a corrupt businessman.

James Dalton ( Patrick Swayze ) is a professional " cooler " ( i. e. specialized doorman, or bouncer ) with a mysterious past who is enticed from his current job in New York City by club owner Frank Tilghman ( Kevin Tighe ) to take over security at his club / bar, the Double Deuce, in Jasper, Missouri.

* In the 1987 film Next Of Kin many scenes were filmed in and around ABLA, most notably one in which Patrick Swayze hides from his pursuers inside the Robert Brooks Extension and bribes a young child to misdirect them.

: Not to be confused with The Renegades, a TV show that ran from 1982 to 1983 starring Patrick Swayze

Vizard studied Law and Philosophy at the University of Melbourne ; he practiced as a lawyer and was a partner in a City Law firm ; he has written for and produced various Logie and AFI award winning television show-from Fast Forward to Kangaroo Palace ; he has hosted his own 5 night a week national Tonight Show, Tonight Live With Steve Vizard for which he was three times nominated for and won a Gold Logie in 1991 ; he has interviewed over two thousand major names, from Audrey Hepburn, Oliver Stone, Mel Gibson, Robin Williams, Sir Bob Geldof, Peter Allen, Patrick Swayze, Bob Hope, Sir Peter Ustinov, Shirley MacLaine, Michael Parkinson, Spike Milligan, Edward de Bono, Robert Ludlum, Sir Harry Secombe, and Prime Ministers and politicians ; he founded one of Australia ’ s largest independent Production houses, Artist Services, which was subsequently sold to Granada ; he has been the President of the National Gallery of Victoria and the Chairman of the Victorian Major Events Company, securing events such as the World Cycling Champioships and the World Gymnastics Championships ; he has appeared on the cover of Time and Rolling Stone ; he was an elected representative to the 1999 Constitutional Convention ; he was Father of the Year in 2001 ; he was embroiled in three highly publicised legal proceedings, involving the theft of moneys by his former accountant from the Vizard Companies, and Vizard's civil penalty in 2005 for breaching directors duties ; he has broadcast on the Austereo, Fairfax and Macquarie Radio Networks and in 2011 was nominated for best Talkback Presenter in Australia ; he was Chairman of the World Swimming Championships ; and he has written several books ranging on topics ranging from humour to Australia's population policy.

The radio version lasted only a year, but Swayze was an occasional panelist in the television version of the program, which was broadcast on NBC from 1948 to 1955.

Other noteworthy relations descending from the Betts or Swayze lineages are actors William Holden and Tom Hulce, and Evgenia Citkowitz, wife of actor Julian Sands.

* Patrick Swayze ( 1952 – 2009 ), an American actor, dancer and singer-songwriter, had a ranch in Las Vegas.

By 1956, NBC executives had grown dissatisfied with Swayze in his role anchoring the network's evening news program, which fell behind its main competition, CBS's Douglas Edwards with the News, in 1955.

Network executive Ben Park suggested replacing Swayze with Chet Huntley and David Brinkley, who had garnered favorable attention anchoring NBC's coverage of the national political conventions that summer.

Earlier regular panelists had included Johnny Carson, Polly Bergen, Jayne Meadows, Don Ameche, Hy Gardner, Dick Van Dyke, Hildy Parks, John Cameron Swayze, and Ralph Bellamy.

The studio felt that this title said very little about surfing and by the time Patrick Swayze was cast, the film had been renamed Riders on the Storm after the famous rock song.

He had two younger brothers, actor Don Swayze ( born 1958 ) and Sean Kyle ( born 1962 ), and two sisters, Vickie Lynn ( 1949 – 1994 ) and Bambi.

Swayze received a Golden Globe Award nomination for the role and also sang one of the songs on the soundtrack, " She's Like the Wind ", which he had originally co-written with Stacy Widelitz for the film Grandview, U. S. A.

Swayze and Niemi had no children.

In early May 2008, it was widely reported in a number of tabloids that Swayze had undergone surgery to remove part of his stomach after the spread of the cancer and that he had rewritten his will, transferring his property to his wife.

In late 2008, Swayze denied claims made by tabloids that the cancer had spread to his liver.

In an interview with Barbara Walters which aired in January 2009, Swayze admitted that he had a " tiny little mass " in his liver.

On April 19, 2009, doctors informed Swayze that the cancer had again metastasized to his liver.

Swayze stated that his chain smoking probably " had something to do with " the development of his disease.

In 1983, he appeared as Johnny Cade in The Outsiders alongside many young actors who had yet to become major stars, such as C. Thomas Howell, Tom Cruise, Emilio Estevez, Patrick Swayze, Rob Lowe, and Matt Dillon.

The following year, she reunited with Patrick Swayze, whom she had played opposite in Red Dawn, to play Frances " Baby " Houseman in Dirty Dancing.

The next choice was 34-year-old Patrick Swayze, who had been noticed for his roles in The Outsiders and Red Dawn, in which he had costarred with Grey.

Grey was not happy about the choice, as she and Swayze had had difficulty getting along on Red Dawn but when they did their dancing screen test, the chemistry between them was obvious.

This had the desired effect, and Swayze and Grey were able to return to the film with renewed energy and enthusiasm.

" Swayze had written the song a few years earlier with Stacy Widelitz, originally intending for it to be used in the 1984 film Grandview, U. S. A.

Swayze had a role as a mentally handicapped man suspected of murder in an episode of the television drama Matlock.

In addition to his singing career, Travis pursued an acting career, appearing in numerous films and television series, including The Rainmaker ( 1997 ) with Matt Damon, Black Dog ( 1998 ) with Patrick Swayze, Texas Rangers ( 2001 ) with James Van Der Beek, and seven episodes of the Touched by an Angel television series.

Sheen's film career began in 1984 with a role in the Cold War teen drama Red Dawn with Patrick Swayze, C. Thomas Howell, Lea Thompson, and Jennifer Grey.

Despite repeated tabloid claims that his death was imminent, Swayze continued to actively pursue his career.

In his discussion of Berger ’ s life, Swayze asserts that Berger “ believes, and believes passionately, in the integrity of Canada ’ s system of equitable justice and its attendant jurisprudence .” Throughout his career, Berger dedicated his life to law and to politics.

After the company ceased publishing comics, Swayze moved over to Charlton Publications, where he ended his comics career in the mid-50's.