Goldberg said she hadn't spoken to Swayze about his health. "We want you to feel better - we'll talk soon, I hope," she said.
Whoopi : Swayze is reason why I won Oscar
NEW YORK (AP) -March 6, 2008 "When I won my Academy Award, the only person I really thanked
was Patrick," Goldberg recalled Thursday on ABC daytime talk show
"The View."
Goldberg, who starred alongside Swayze in the 1990 film, earned
a best supporting actress trophy for her portrayal of psychic Oda
Mae Brown, who helps slain businessman Sam Wheat (Swayze)
communicate with his grieving fiancee and solve the mystery of his
murder.
The 52-year-old actress-comedian said Swayze persuaded director
Jerry Zucker to cast her in the film amid "some resistance."
According to Goldberg, Swayze said, "I'm not making this movie
unless you put Whoopi Goldberg in there."
Swayze, 55, has been undergoing treatment for pancreatic cancer,
his representative Annett Wolf said Wednesday.
In a statement released by Wolf, Swayze's physician Dr. George
Fisher said he was "optimistic" about the "Dirty Dancing"
actor's prognosis for battling the disease: "Patrick has a very
limited amount of disease and he appears to be responding well to
treatment thus far."