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Too clean? Swayze once doubted 'Dirty Dancing'
NEW YORK (AP) - September 24, 2009 The actor, who died Sept. 14 of cancer, writes in his memoir,
"It seemed fluffy - nothing more than a summer-camp movie." The
memoir "The Time of My Life" comes out next week.
Swayze's reaction was completely different about another future
smash, "Ghost." He immediately wanted to be in it and persuaded
producer Jeff Zucker to cast him despite Zucker's skepticism that
Swayze could play a sensitive leading man.
Swayze also remembered working with a then-little known Tom
Cruise in Francis Coppola's adaptation of the young adult classic
"The Outsiders." Cruise, Swayze said, was so "self-conscious
about his teeth" that he resisted magazine photo shoots.
