Patrick Swayze – The sexiest man to ever jump of a stage, to get baby out of the corner, and to confirm that yes, men can be masculine, passionate and sensitive all wrapped up into a Swayze…that is the man, the myth, the legend.
Patrick Swayze may best be known for his role as Johnny Castle in the 1987 box office hit Dirty Dancing. The magnetic chemistry between him and co-star Jennifer Grey as Baby, portrayed this raw attraction, fire and passion that every woman has longed for since their experience with the movie. He was born to a rodeo champion and a ballet dancer…what a perfect combination! The grace of a dancer and the rugged masculinity of a man that can tame a bull, that’s who Patrick Swayze was. Although Ghost was a hit movie as well and he succeeded as being the first person in history to make pottery sexy, Dirty Dancing in my heart, still stands as the best movie of all time and invites me to fall in love with Johnny Castle, every time.
Swayze as Johnny Castle was my first man crush, the first time I understood what passion was, the first man ass I ever saw, and still my favorite. His bad boy sex appeal and fearless attitude made me wants to pack my bags and go off to summer camp for the rare chance of meeting my Johnny. And yes, I actually did that after high school and ended up bunking in a room full of girls, sharing a community bathroom and having a curfew and did I forget to mention that it was a Baptist camp so no dirty dancing allowed, which equaled no Johnny.
Ohh that black t-shirt, the cocked eyebrow, the nod of his head and that sexy grin, it gives a girl chills, ohhh why do we like the bad boy? Johnny Castle has been an inspiration throughout my entire life. I definitely mimicked his jumping off the stage at the Freaky Tiki club in Myrtle Beach during a Booty shake contest, in which I won, thank you! He also inspired my final exam presentation in my sign language class in college where I did a tribute to Dirty Dancing and signed “She’s like the wind” (written by Swayze inspired by his wife) seriously, and it was fabulous, I got an A! Even my older sister learned how to play the clarinet via the Dirty Dancing soundtrack. It holds a place in history and in every girl’s heart that has watched the movie and fantasized about meeting their Johnny, falling in love and jumping off that stage into his arms for the lift…oh yea and you know you made every boyfriend recreate that scene!
Just thinking of his sweaty body moving to the beat of the music could make any ovulating woman swoon. Remember when Johnny said “It’s not on the one; it’s not the mambo…. It’s a feeling, a heartbeat…(thud, thud thud, thud, thud thud)….yeeeuusss that’s what’s missing, allowing your heart to be heard. Hungry eyes, that passion, that lust to crawl across the floor singing “Baby, awww baby, my sweet baby, you’re the one!” Thank you Patrick Swayze for embodying what a real man is suppose to be. A man should be a masculine, smooth talking cowboy on the outside with the grace of a ballet dancer on the inside. Then add the passion of a lion running through the desert of the Serengeti to catch the gazelle and tear it to shreds to feast upon and now we’re talking!! He had that swagger and confidence when no words are needed. Ahh, that’s what I want, a man to take my face in his hands, kiss me on the forehead and sends chills to the top of my head, turning me into a limp noodle. All Johnny has to do is nod his head, grin and with his hungry eyes say “Come over her woman so I can pillage you and make sweet cowboy love to you” and I’m sold. I’m sorry men, especially the ones in my past but thanks to Johnny Castle, I’ve always had unrealistic expectations of what love is and what its suppose to be like to be swept off your feet, literally.
I feel like Baby when she says to Johnny: "Me? I’m scared of everything, I’m scared of what I saw, I’m scared of what I did, of who I am and most of all I’m scared of walking out of this room and never feeling the rest of my whole life the way that I feel when I’m with you” ahhhhhhh my heart still races when I read this quote…..yes Baby, that’s love!!
Although sometimes I sing to my self “I want to know what love is…I want you to show me” (that would be the Foreigner version not Mariah Carey) I sometimes wonder, is there another, will there ever be…. another Johnny Castle aka Patrick Swayze. He is a legend, a man of heart and soul who never gave up…not even when he was given a death sentence after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He worked and fought courageously to the very end, RIP Patrick Swayze (*tear). Because of his art…”I’ve had the time of my life…..No I never felt this way before” that gives me enough hope to hold out for my Johnny.
It has to be the ending scene that did it for me when Johnny took Baby up on that stage and told all those people, “I'm gonna do my kind of dancin' with a great partner, who's not only a terrific dancer; somebody who's taught me that there are people willing to stand up for other people no matter what it costs them; somebody who's taught me about the kind of person I wanna be.” Well dammit, I am too. I’m going do my kind of dancin’, I’m going to need a great partner, somebody that will stand beside of me and not in front of me, someone who can push me to be a better me, someone that can romance me with his eyes, his hungry eyes, hungry for Jennie, grrrr. Someone who can look at me and say….
“Now I've had the time of my life
No I never felt like this before
Yes I swear it's the truth
and I owe it all to you
'Cause I've had the time of my life
and I owe it all to you”
“I've been waiting for so long
Now I've finally found someone
To stand by me”…me too yes!
"Now with passion in our eyes
There's no way we could disguise it secretly
So we take each other's hand
'Cause we seem to understand the urgency"
"Just remember
You're the one thing
I can't get enough of
So I'll tell you something"
“This could be love because”……ahhh the pause, the longing, the gazing into each other’s eyes…the ohhh I want to make out with you face moment, I love it!!
Then we sing together gloriously at the top of our lungs at the first dance of our wedding…yes I said it! I don’t even have a boyfriend, let alone a fiance or a wedding planned but I do have one thing planned and that my friends, is the display of my inner soul in the form of dance…...and in unison we sing:
”I've had the time of my life
No I never felt this way before
Yes I swear it's the truth
And I owe it all to you
'Cause I've had the time of my life
And I've searched through every open door
'Til I found the truth"….. I’ve searched through too many open doors and unfortunately found a lot of things and it wasn’t the truth.
And I owe it all to you”……then he kisses her hand and turns around and jumps off that stage with his shirt torn open exposes his pecs in all their glory and yes, yeeeessssss, that’s it! Where is the man that’s going to jump off a stage for me and “just let it go and don’t be afraid to lose control”!! All I can say is, Patrick Swayze...what a man!
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