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NEWS ABOUT: Lisa Niemi

Lisa Niemi stories: 10 news summaries
CaLIF. WOMEN'S CONFERENCE



 Swayze Widow: 
 I'll See Him Again 

Lisa Niemi, Elizabeth Smart, Maria Shriver take part in Women's Conference

Oct 28, 09 8:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Just six weeks after losing her husband, Lisa Niemi spoke publicly for the first time about Patrick Swayze's death at yesterday's Women's Conference in California. "I am so grateful for what I had and my connection to him, and part of me believes that I will see him again,... More »

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entertainment • Elizabeth Edwards • celebrity • Maria Shriver • Patrick Swayze • Elizabeth Smart • Kelly Preston • Lisa Niemi • Kate Gosselin • celebrity death

 Swayze's Biggest 
 Regret: 
 No Kids 

Actor writes about wish for fatherhood in memoir

Sep 22, 09 4:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - Patrick Swayze desperately wanted to have children and was “crushed” when wife Lisa Niemi had a miscarriage, the Boston Globe reports. Swayze wrote of his longing for fatherhood in his memoir The Time of My Life: "I couldn't wait to become a dad, to have a child with... More »

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children • memoir • miscarriage • Patrick Swayze • Lisa Niemi

 Swayze Memoir: 
 Dying 'Is Okay' 

In excerpts from upcoming book, Patrick Swayze writes of marriage, cancer battle

Sep 17, 09 9:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - Dying was “okay” with Patrick Swayze, he wrote in his upcoming memoir. Though his cancer diagnosis at first seemed like a “cruel joke,” he “began thinking to myself, I've had more lifetimes than any 10 people put together, and it's been an amazing ride.” More... More »

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entertainment • celebrity • memoir • Patrick Swayze • Lisa Niemi • celebrity death

SWAYZE ROUNDUP

 Patrick Swayze to Be Cremated 

Plus, a first look at the actor's book with wife Lisa Niemi, and more tributes

Sep 16, 09 7:11 AM CDT
(Newser) - Patrick Swayze’s ashes will be spread across his New Mexican Rancho de Días Alegres (Ranch of Happy Days), which he called his favorite place in the world, a source tells Radar. The actor’s body, currently in Los Angeles, will be cremated within 48 hours. More Swayze news:... More »

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entertainment • cremation • celebrity • Keanu Reeves • Patrick Swayze • Lisa Niemi • celebrity death

APPRECIATION

 Swayze: Not Afraid to Laugh 
 at His Own Hunkiness 

Actor didn't want to be just another pretty face, made sure he wasn't

Sep 14, 09 9:01 PM CDT
(Newser) - Patrick Swayze, who died today at 57, wasn’t the first choice for the male lead in Dirty Dancing, the BBC notes, but “his performance earned him award nominations and a place on bedroom walls of lovelorn teenage girls around the world.” He eschewed Hollywood’s scene—preferring... More »

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Saturday Night Live • entertainment • Hollywood • obituary • pancreatic cancer • Patrick Swayze • Dirty Dancing • appreciation • Lisa Niemi • sex symbol • Chris Farley

OBITUARY

 Cancer Takes 
 Swayze, 57 

Dirty Dancing star diagnosed with deadly pancreatic cancer in Jan. 2008

Sep 14, 09 7:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - Patrick Swayze died today, TMZ reports, following a battle with pancreatic cancer. The actor, whose credits included Dirty Dancing and Ghost, was 57. Named People’s Sexiest Man Alive in 1991, he was diagnosed with the deadly form of cancer in January 2008; he continued film and TV work,... More »

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cancer • entertainment • pancreatic cancer • People Magazine • actor • Patrick Swayze • Dirty Dancing • Ghost • Lisa Niemi

 Swayze Goes Home to Die: Tab 

Actor's bodily functions reportedly shutting down

Sep 9, 09 10:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - Patrick Swayze has left the hospital and gone home to die in his own bed, the National Enquirer reports. Despite the actor's strong will to live, he has reportedly suffered multiple setbacks in his battle with pancreatic cancer, including a mild heart attack and an ongoing intestinal infection, and now... More »

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pancreatic cancer • Patrick Swayze • Lisa Niemi

 Bio Details 
 Swayze's 
 Cancer Fight 

It was almost too late before actor visited doctor

May 8, 09 9:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - Patrick Swayze’s first inkling that something was wrong came while sipping champagne on New Year’s Eve 2007, reports the New York Daily News. “It was like acid on an open wound,” he recalls in a new biography out Tuesday. At the end of January 2008, after... More »

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cancer • entertainment • celebrity • biography • Patrick Swayze • The Beast • Lisa Niemi • Wendy Leigh • Jamie Erlicht

 Swayze, Wife Penning Memoirs 


Jan 23, 09 10:03 AM CST
(Newser) - Just one week since being released from the hospital after a bout with pneumonia, Patrick Swayze has announced he's writing a book, E! reports. The actor will collaborate on his memoirs with his wife of 33 years, Lisa. Even before his battle with pancreatic cancer, Swayze’s life was book-worthy,... More »

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celebrity • memoir • book • Patrick Swayze • Lisa Niemi

(Newser) - "Yeah, I'm scared. Yeah, I'm angry. Yeah, I'm all that stuff," Patrick Swayze tells Barbara Walters in a candid interview that airs tomorrow, the first since his pancreatic cancer diagnosis. "I'm going through hell, and I've only just seen the beginning of it." Swayze was determined... More »

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television • Barbara Walters • chemotherapy • pancreatic cancer • Patrick Swayze • interview • The Beast • Lisa Niemi

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