{"id":2004,"date":"2008-06-10T09:00:15","date_gmt":"2008-06-10T09:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/2008\/06\/heartthrob-update-swayze-gibso.html"},"modified":"2008-06-10T09:00:15","modified_gmt":"2008-06-10T09:00:15","slug":"heartthrob-update-swayze-gibso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2008\/06\/heartthrob-update-swayze-gibso.html","title":{"rendered":"Heartthrob Update: Swayze, Gibson Back After Cancer Scare, Anti-Semitic Rants, Respectively"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"patrickswayzepicforidolchat.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/87\/import\/patrickswayzepicforidolchat.jpg\" width=\"177\" height=\"224\" style=\"float:right;margin: 5px\">In classic roles in movies from the 90s, they seemed untouchably young, virile, and sane. Mel had the eyes and that amazing, charming, mischievous smile. But Patrick had the dancer&#8217;s bod, and was the kind of guy who&#8217;d dance with a girl even if her first words were &#8220;I carried a watermelon.&#8221; But in recent years, those of us whose hearts went &#8220;ga-gung&#8221; for Gibson and Swayze watched as time altered&#8211;if not in appearance, then from within.<br \/>\nIn March, Patrick Swayze announced that he had pancreatic cancer, and in some reports, the gravity of the illness was reported as imminently life-threatening. But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtv.co.uk\/channel\/mtvuk\/news\/09062008\/424171\/patrick_swayze_back_to_work\" target=\"_blank\">according to MTV news<\/a>, Swayze is back at work, despite undergoing treatment to keep the cancer in check. He&#8217;s filming an A&amp;E drama, &#8220;The Beast,&#8221; which &#8220;sees Swayze playing an unconventional FBI agent whose failures to play by the rules makes him a target for internal affairs.&#8221; Much success and to your health, Patrick.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, everyone&#8217;s favorite ranting former heartthrob-turned-evangelical-anti-Semite, Mel Gibson, is also back at work, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/06092008\/gossip\/pagesix\/gibsons_back_in_business_114622.htm\">New York Post wonders<\/a>, &#8220;HAS Hollywood forgiven Mel Gibson for his drunken anti-Semitic rant two years ago?&#8221; at the same time as they title the piece &#8220;Gibson&#8217;s Back in Business,&#8221; ruining the ending for all of us. While the piece cites one source calling Gibson a pariah, shooting for Gibson&#8217;s next film, &#8220;Edge of Darkness&#8221; is slated to start Aug. 18. When producer Graham King, who won an Oscar for &#8220;The Departed,&#8221; was asked if there was a boycott against Gibson, King said no. (More Hollywood details in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/06092008\/gossip\/pagesix\/gibsons_back_in_business_114622.htm\" target=\"_blank\">the article, here<\/a>.) Say what you want about Jewish Hollywood (not you, Mel), but it seems that for the moment, Mel&#8217;s not persona anti-Semitus non grata.<br \/>\nTo sum up: Health. Forgiveness. Amen.<br \/>\nAnd no one puts these heartthrobs in a corner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In classic roles in movies from the 90s, they seemed untouchably young, virile, and sane. Mel had the eyes and that amazing, charming, mischievous smile. 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