La Vida Boheme: Patrick Swayze, star of drag classic “Too Wong Foo” dies at 57
”Oh, sweet pea. Now, you listen to your Auntie Vida. I want you to believe in yourself, imagine good things and moisturize, I cannot stress this enough.”
Patrick Swayze as Vida Boheme from the 1995 Hollywood drag queen fantasy, “Too Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar.” Swayze, 57, died today after a very public battle with pancreatic cancer. He was also the leading male in romance movies like “Dirty Dancing” and “Ghost,” as well as “The Outsiders,” “Point Break,” and as the motivational speaker with a secret shame in “Donnie Darko.”
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