Patrick Swayze has FIVE weeks to live?!

What the fuck?!

According to the National Enquirer, Hollywood actor Patrick Swayze is dying from Pancreatic Cancer, and only has 5 weeks to live!

Say it ain't so!
From the Enquirer:

In a shocking world exclusive, The NATIONAL ENQUIRER has uncovered the devastating news that the beloved Hollywood actor and dancer was diagnosed in late January with pancreatic cancer that has spread to other organs.

Full details are in the print edition of the NATIONAL ENQUIRER that goes on sale tomorrow.

For the past month, Patrick, 55, has been traveling to Stanford University's prestigious cancer center in Palo Alto for radical chemotherapy, but his doctors are no longer optimistic that the treatments will be successful.

Patrick and his wife Lisa Niemi — who both have pilot's licenses — have been flying their private Beechcraft plane into Palo Alto's airport, minutes away from the Stanford Cancer Center, where the actor has received outpatient treatment.

He received three doses of chemotherapy and the tumor shrank, but less than his doctors had hoped for — and Patrick was told he should prepare for the end.

"He was told he could have two more treatments, but his cancer was not responding. In short - they held out little hope for a cure," said an insider.

The man who danced into the hearts of audiences worldwide in the 1980s in Dirty Dancing and then broke them in the poignant love story Ghost in the early '90s has lost more than 20 pounds in the past few weeks and is restricted to a liquid diet because he has trouble keeping down solid food, added the insider.

"It's time to start praying for a miracle."

Mourning the loss of Famed Tenor; Luciano Pavarotti dies at age 71.

Classical music lost its greatest pop star today when Luciano Pavarotti died at age 71.

His manager, Terri Robson, told the Associated Press in an e-mail statement that Pavarotti died at his home in Modena, Italy, at 5 a.m. local time. Pavarotti had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer last year and had further treatment in August.

More than any opera singer since that earlier Italian tenor Enrico Caruso, Pavarotti exuded the presence and enjoyed the celebrity of a matinee idol. Even if he didn't look the part, Pavarotti's face was as famous as those of the rock musicians with whom he consorted and collaborated — and at times, just as prone to turn up in the tabloids.

Critics and fans have spent years debating over potential successors, wondering which young vocalist might come closest to matching Pavarotti's medley of raw talent, unlikely glamour and populist appeal, his potential for inspiring awe and generating controversy. But no one figure seems likely to loom as large, literally and figuratively, in the near future.