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Patrick Swayze honoured with riding scholarship
6 hours ago | RealBollywood.com | See recent RealBollywood news »
New York, Nov 29 (Ians) Hollywood actor Patrick Swayze has been honoured posthumously by a scholarship in his name by an American riding institution.
The “Dirty Dancing” star, along with his wife Lisa Niemi, was a keen equestrian prior to his death in September this year, and officials at the Arabian Horse Foundation (Aha) have established a programme to remember the actor, reports buzzhollywood.com.
The scholarship will be awarded each spring to a youngster involved with Arabian horses who seeks a performing arts career.
Foundation president Larry Kinneer said it honours Swayze for his career and the couple’s “love of the Arabian breed and contributions over the years to Aha youth programs.” »
- realbollywood
Swayze Honoured With Riding Scholarship
28 November 2009 6:11 AM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »
A scholarship in honour of the late Patrick Swayze has been launched by an American riding institution.
The Dirty Dancing star, along with his wife Lisa Niemi, was a keen equestrian prior to his death in September, and officials at the Arabian Horse Foundation have established a program to remember the actor.
The scholarship will be awarded each spring to a youngster involved with Arabian horses who seeks a performing arts career.
Foundation President Larry Kinneer says it honours Swayze for his career and the couple's "love of the Arabian breed and contributions over the years to Aha youth programs." »
Kate Moss Led A Conga Line Through A Take That Concert
27 November 2009 1:18 AM, PST | Gossipvita | See recent Gossipvita news »
The supermodel laughed and giggled as she directed a line of dancing partygoers around the Tabernacle venue, in London’s Notting Hill, to the ‘Dirty Dancing’ track ‘(I've Had) The Time of My Life’ while her celebrity friends – including model Pixie Geldof - watched on in amusement. Once the 35-year-old beauty reached the dancefloor she began dancing the Macarena with her pals. The celebrity revellers were joined at the PlayStation3 SingStar Take That Extravaganza by hundreds of other guests who turned out to support the band as they launched their karaoke computer game and promote the HIV charity Body and Soul. Take That - Gary Barlow, Mark Owen, Jason Orange and Howard Donald – teamed-up with British comic James Corden for a rendition of their 2007 hit ‘Rule The World’. The band got a little emotional as they told the crowd the evening reminded them of the intimate concerts they used to »
- Alice
Take That and conga Kate Moss
26 November 2009 10:01 PM, PST | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »
Kate Moss led a conga line through a Take That concert on Wednesday night (25.11.09). The supermodel laughed and giggled as she directed a line of dancing partygoers around the Tabernacle venue, in London's Notting Hill, to the 'Dirty Dancing' track '(I've Had) The Time of My Life' while her celebrity friends - including model Pixie Geldof - watched on in amusement. Once the 35-year-old beauty reached the dancefloor she began dancing the Macarena with her pals. Pixie, 19, was overheard saying: "This is the party of the year!" The celebrity revellers were joined at the PlayStation3 SingStar Take That Extravaganza by hundreds of other guests who turned out to support the band as they launched their karaoke computer game »
Celebs Express Themselves at P.S. Arts Fair
23 November 2009 2:00 PM, PST | People - CelebrityBabies | See recent People - CelebrityBabies news »
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It was a celeb-fest last Saturday as stars gathered with their families for the 2009 P.S. Arts “Express Yourself” Creative Arts Fair, held in Santa Monica, Calif.
At left, The Soup host and Community star Joel McHale poses with wife Sarah and sons Edward Roy, 4 ½, and Isaac Hayden, 20 months.
See many more photos below, including pictures of James Marsden, Nicole Sullivan, Jake Weber, Michelle Monaghan, Wolfgang Puck, Melora Hardin, Jason Bateman, Natalie Maines, Adrian Pasdar, Breckin Meyer, Jenna Elfman, Hamish Linklater, Megyn Price, Jennifer Grey, Kyle MacLachlan, Camryn Manheim and kids!
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The Box star James Marsden »
- Sarah
'Dirty Dancing' Christmas marathon: Pssst, your father's coming.
23 November 2009 10:38 AM, PST | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
TV Guide Network will air a 12-hour Dirty Dancing marathon starting at noon Et on Christmas Day. Thoughts: • The movie takes place in summer. But okay. • Are we talking about a one-time tribute to the late Patrick Swayze or an annual event? (A rep for TV Guide Networks tells us, "Currently, the 12-hour Dirty Dancing marathon is planned as a special one-time event for Christmas day; however, depending on the response we may very well keep this as an annual tradition.") • I've got to call my mother. She took my sister and I to see the film six times in the theater, »
- Mandi Bierly
The perfect Christmas movie marathon? Dirty Dancing
22 November 2009 8:29 AM, PST | AOL - TVSquad | See recent AOL - TVSquad news »
One of the stranger quirks of the holidays on television is the way networks and channels program. Movie marathons have become very common, especially TBS's tradition of 24-hours of A Christmas Story. Now, another network is following in TBS's tradition by scheduling a movie marathon of its own. The TV Guide Network will present a 12-hour marathon of Dirty Dancing. That's right, the Patrick Swayze-Jennifer Grey drama musical.
Look at this beautiful image from the movie. That's Johnny and Baby in the lake, practicing jumps for their big dance number. Doesn't it just scream "Christmas" to you?
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- Allison Waldman
Jennifer Grey speaks about Swayze death
19 November 2009 6:43 AM, PST | digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »
Jennifer Grey has spoken out about the death of her Dirty Dancing co-star Patrick Swayze. The actress, who played Swayze's on screen love interest in the 1987 movie, told Et Online that she was grateful to have had him in her life. "I think we will always be a couple in a lot of people's minds from the experience of seeing us in that movie," she explained. "I think the reality [of his death] is shocking to me and really sad. I have been sad for the two years he was sick. I realised I (more) »
- By Lara Martin
Swayze Tragedy Hit Dirty Dancing Co-star Hard
18 November 2009 5:36 PM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Actress Jennifer Grey is still struggling with the death of Dirty Dancing co-star Patrick Swayze because she has only recently realised just how strong her feelings were for the actor/dancer.
Grey and Swayze became iconic onscreen lovers in the hit 1987 film and, despite reports the two didn't get along on the set of the romance movie, the actress reveals her former co-star's cancer battle and passing have hit her very hard.
Opening up for the first time since Swayze's death in September, she tells U.S. news show Entertainment Tonight, "I think the reality (of his death) is shocking to me and really sad. I have been sad for the two years he was sick.
"I realised I had a real depth of feeling for him that I hadn't felt like I got to express to him enough. For that, I feel grateful for the chance to have him in my heart. In that sense it was beautiful because I felt the gift of him in a strong way.
"He was a very original, special guy... It (death) was such a shock, even though there was no surprise." »
Amy Winehouse Eyes New Surgery on Nose
16 November 2009 9:39 PM, PST | CelebrityHealthFitness | See recent CelebrityHealthFitness news »
Amy Winehouse reportedly is hooked on … plastic surgery. After boosting her breasts she now wants to fix her “witch-like” nose. Plastic surgery can be addictive. Some women, and men as well, undergo multiple procedures to correct what they perceive as flaws in their face of body. Pop singer Ashlee Simpson had a nose job and was widely criticized. Jennifer Gray , who starred in the 1987 movie “Dirty Dancing,” had surgery to remove a pronounced bump in her nose and it ruined her career. Celebrities such as Cher, Meg Ryan have changed their looks for the worse through “lip plumping.” And of course, late singer Michael Jackson was notorious for having multiple plastic surgery procedures »
- kgirard@theimproper.com (Keith Girard)
Amy Winehouse Eyes New Surgery on Nose
16 November 2009 10:12 AM, PST | TheImproper.com | See recent TheImproper.com news »
Amy Winehouse reportedly is hooked on … plastic surgery. After boosting her breasts she now wants to fix her “witch-like” nose. Plastic surgery can be addictive. In some cases it can get out of hand. Celebrities such as Cher, Meg Ryan have changed their looks for the worse through “lip plumping.” And of course, late singer Michael Jackson was notorious for having multiple plastic surgery procedures to radically alter his look. Nose jobs can be tricky, too. Pop singer Ashlee Simpson had a nose job and was widely criticized. Jennifer Gray , who starred in the 1987 movie “Dirty Dancing,” had surgery to remove a pronounced bump in her nose and it ruined her career. »
- kgirard@theimproper.com (Keith Girard)
Lionsgate To Continue Saw Franchise
13 November 2009 5:46 PM, PST | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
Drug addicts, doctors, renegade police offices and anyone else that may need “to help themselves” should stay on edge as it looks like the Jigsaw Killer will be on the lamb for the foreseeable future as Lionsgate recently stated that they will continue making the Rube Goldberg horror series Saw “as long as we make money.”
Lionsgate vice chairman Michael Burns spoke those exact words at the Median and Money conference in New York on Thursday. To further prove his point, the confident Burns states that Dirty Dancing, 20 years after its debut, still sells an average of 2,000 DVDs per day.
While the most recent Saw VI didn’t perform as well as its predecessors, most people are attributing its dramatic drop off to the phenomenon of Paranormal Activity. I know most people say that the Saw stories aren’t good and it’s the same thing over and over, but »
- Anthony Ocasio
Watch: Four Seasons Lodge
11 November 2009 3:11 AM, PST | TribecaFilm.com | See recent Tribeca Film news »
'You have to be obsessed,' said director Andrew Jacobs, talking and coughing (he was fighting a cold) over the phone about what drove him to make the documentary Four Seasons Lodge. 'If you're not obsessed with the subject, if you dont feel impossibly devoted to it, it's really hard when you have a full time job at the same time and you're trying to raise the money and organize the shoot, and then organize [the film] and edit it and market [the film]. i'm exhausted.' Jacob's passion for the subject was enough to get the legendary documentarian Albert Maysles on board as one of the cinematographers, and he first found out about this 'different side of Dirty Dancing-land' while reporting on the Catskills for the New York Times, where he has been a staff writer for the past ten years: 'I was talking to some people at a bungalow colony and »
Dance Tribute For Tragic Swayze
5 November 2009 4:11 AM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Dancers in New York City paid tribute to late actor Patrick Swayze on Monday night - awarding him a posthumous honour for his contribution to the industry.
The star, who lost his battle with cancer earlier this year (Sept09), trained as a ballet dancer before he began his career on Broadway with roles in hit musicals Grease and Chicago. His fancy footwork helped land him his breakthrough film role in 1987 movie Dirty Dancing.
Swayze's widow, Lisa Niemi, attended the annual fundraiser for Career Transition for Dancers, a charity which helps dancers whose careers have been cut short by injury.
She took to the stage to collect the Rolex Dance Award, and in a tearful acceptance speech she told the crowd her husband is now "dancing with the angels."
Swayze died from pancreatic cancer in September at the age of 57. »
AFI's 100 Years ...100 Movie Quotes
4 November 2009 4:45 AM, PST | Extra | See recent Extra news »
"Extra" brings you AFI's 100 Best Movie Quotes of all time! From "The Wizard of Oz" to "Taxi Driver," see if your favorites made the list!
AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie QuotesGone with the Wind (1939)
“Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.” —Said by Clark Gable as Rhett Butler to Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O’Hara.
The Godfather (1972)
“I’m going to make him an offer he can’t refuse.” —Marlon Brando as Don Corleone.
On the Waterfront (1954)
“You don’t understand! »
'This is It': 'I'm happy for Michael' says director Ortega
3 November 2009 1:29 AM, PST | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
This is It director Kenny Ortega told an audience at an Entertainment Weekly event in Los Angeles Monday night that he's "happy for Michael" that the film, which opened to $101 million worldwide last weekend, is now the highest grossing concert film in history. "Michael had filmmaking in his future,” Oretga said at EW's tribute to the legendary director and choreographer at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. "So I’m just glad that this film—even though he didn’t get to have that experience—has in fact made him a movie star." Ortega, who choreographed Dirty Dancing and directed all three High School Musical movies, »
- Paige Parker
Wait, Now Heath Ledger Has a DirecTV Commercial?
2 November 2009 1:02 PM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
If you've been watching playoff baseball these past few weeks, you've probably come across the Tommy Boy DirecTV commercial about, say, 176,000 times. About a week after it began airing, the satellite television company came under fire for a second time for airing parody commercials featuring actors or actresses who died tragically at a young age. The first was a commercial featuring Poltergeist actress Heather O'Rourke, and now folks are really pissed DirecTV is using Chris Farley in a commercial that stars David Spade (who reprises his character from Tommy Boy in a parody of the "Fat Guy in a Little Coat" scene).
If you want my personal opinion, I think DirecTV does this sort of stuff on purpose -- claiming to be "celebrating" the life of a dead celebrity, though what they're really hoping for is that people like us (and several other sites) will give them a bunch of »
- Erik Davis
October 30: DVD alternatives to this weekend’s multiplex offerings
30 October 2009 2:44 PM, PDT | www.flickfilosopher.com | See recent FlickFilosopher news »
We know how it is: You’d like to go to the movies this weekend, but you’re still working on putting together your Michael Jackson costume for Halloween; sewing all those sequins onto that glove is taking forever. But you can have a multiplex-like experience at home with a collection of the right DVDs. And when someone asks you on Monday, “Hey, did you see This Is It this weekend?” you can reply, “No, I eased on, eased on down the road instead.” Instead Of: Michael Jackson’s This Is It, the pseudo concert film/documentary/slash public memorial service that salvages what is basically home video footage of rehearsal’s for what would have been Jackson’s final tour into something not quite fit for public consumption... Watch: 1978’s The Wiz, and see the then-teenaged Jackson as the Scarecrow; though the film was a critical and box office flop when it was released, »
- MaryAnn Johanson
Swayze's Widow: 'I Was Afraid to Leave his Side'
30 October 2009 11:47 AM, PDT | Extra | See recent Extra news »
Lisa Niemi is sitting down with Oprah Winfrey for a candid and heartbreaking interview about Patrick Swayze's final days.
"I was afraid to leave his side," she admits.
Swayze was 57 when he died on Sept. 14 after a brave battle against pancreatic cancer. "His heart is so strong," Niemi says during Friday's "Oprah." "But it was only so long that his heart was going to keep going."
Take a look at Patrick Swayze's life in photos. »
Patrick Swayze's Wife: I Feel Like He Hasn't Left
30 October 2009 9:30 AM, PDT | PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news »
Patrick Swayze and Lisa Niemi, whose marriage began in their 20s and lasted for 34 years, led one of Hollywood's storied love affairs - but the Dirty Dancing actor's widow reveals that there were times when their union teetered to the brink of breakup. Six years ago, Niemi tells Oprah Winfrey in her first interview since Swayze's death, her husband descended into a period of heavy drinking and "very dark thoughts. "He was imploding pretty badly," she said during Friday's show, so much so that in 2003, Niemi left Swayze for a year. "I didn't think he was going to live through »
- Hilary Shenfeld
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