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WEDNESDAY MAY 19 2004 11:32 PM

Swayze in Space

Submitted by Christopher

Edited by Christopher

Steven Barber wants to place Patrick Swayze on the International Space Station for advertising purposes. Swayze has agreed to do so.

"I told him, 'Listen, Patrick, you're doing frickin' dinner theater on Wilshire. You're doing a play, Annie Get Your Guns [sic] or something. You haven't done anything since Ghost. I'm going to revive your career. I'm your Quentin Tarantino, and you're my John Travolta. [...]
"I've gone after Howard Schultz at Starbucks and said, 'Let's get frickin' Patrick to drink the first latte in space,' " Barber says. "What commercial could top it? Bill Medley in the background singing 'I Had the Time of My Life,' and Patrick saying, 'I gotta get back to Earth. I'm going to Disney World!'? Don't tell me this isn't good. This is good!"

Barber, a part-time employee of SpaceAdventures, is also trying to line-up a documentary of Swayze's training.
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Comments

hansel

I'm lost

December 2003

MAY 19, 2004 11:41 PM

They should get that girl from Dirty Dancing up there with him. Maybe without any gravity they could get that one last dance move right.

Isadore

HOPEFUL

Mesa, AZ

MAY 19, 2004 11:41 PM

That is just freakin' bizarre!!! I'll put my vote in for David Bowie!! "here I am.. sitting in my tin can far above the world"
Oh, wait! They'd have to pay him [I}like a bijillion dollars to do it, wouldn't they??

Motionboy

Vancouver, BC

January 2004

MAY 19, 2004 11:44 PM

he was awesome in donny darko

Christopher

Portland, OR

November 2002

MAY 19, 2004 11:47 PM

hansel said:
They should get that girl from Dirty Dancing up there with him. Maybe without any gravity they could get that one last dance move right.

No one puts Baby into orbit.