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Sep 15 2009, Kevin

Actor Patrick Swayze, whose turn as a smoldering dance instructor in “Dirty Dancing” made him one of the iconic film stars of the 1980s, died on Monday after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 57.

Swayze, an actor and dancer who cemented...

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Actor Adam Rodriguez arrives at the Rally For Kids With Cancer scavenger hunt at Children’s Hospital in Los Angeles on Saturday, May 2, 2009.