Mr. President, I agree with you.

Something President Obama and I agree on: Kanye West is a "jackass". Here's the story.

Sunday night, at the VMA's, rapper Kanye West made another of his imfamous classless moves during Taylor Swift's acceptance of her award for Best Female Video. He left his seat, went up on the stage, took the microphone away from Taylor and said that Beyoncé had one of the best videos "of all time." The camera panned to the seated Beyoncé, who was clearly embarressed at West's remarks.

This is a guy that's famous for charging the stage when he lost an award in Europe and for claiming in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina that President Bush, "Didn't care about black people." I really wonder at the mentality of someone that doesn't realize how ridiculous it makes them look. What kind of a person would deliberately ruin someone's moment to shine? Even if Beyoncé did make it up to Taylor later (which was the right thing to do) the moment was still ruined. I'm not saying he doesn't have the right to his opinions. He does. It's what he did - and in the name of someone else.

Some people really shouldn't open their mouths in public.

R.I.P Patrick Swayze

In a year that seems to have claimed more than its fair share of Hollywood-types, late yesterday afternoon we learned that actor Patrick Swayze had died after valiantly battling pancreatic cancer for over a year.

I was very saddened to hear this. Though I wouldn't consider myself a *fan* per se, I did like him and I liked the movies that I'd seen him in. Not only was he handsome, but he was talented. Back in the 80's and early 90's when musicals were out of style, he was one of the few "triple threats" in Hollywood that could sing, act and dance. Now that musicals are "back" we're seeing a few more people show off their singing and dancing skills, like Catherine Zeta-Jones, Renee Zellwegger, Richard Gere, Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor, Meryl Streep, Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter and Alan Rickman to name a few. Personally, I would have liked to have seen what Swayze would have done with the role of Billy Flynn in the movie Chicago; not that Richard Gere was bad (he was quite good) but I think Swayze also could have pulled it off. (He placed the role in the Broadway revival).

I'm not sure which role I liked him best in. It's a toss up between Ghost and North and South. I loved him in both of those. Yes, he was also very good in Dirty Dancing, but it's those two that have a special place in my heart. I always felt it was a pity he didn't become a bigger star than he was.

He was not one of those who was in the tabloids; he kept out of the limelight pretty much - that's something I liked. His 34 year marriage to wife Lisa Niemi was another. It's not often you read of that in Hollywood, the graveyard of so many marriages.

He fought his disease with courage and dignity and brought attention to a cancer that has a 90% fatality rate.

Rest well, Patrick. You will be missed.