Today's Sign the Apocalypse is Nigh

Watching "Red Dawn" (WOLVERINES!) will never be the same. Via the Corner.

January 3, 2006 -- IN what's surely the scariest development of the young new year, allhiphop.com reports that "Dirty Dancing" star Patrick Swayze wants to release a rap single. The actor, who had a massive hit in 1987 with "She's Like the Wind," told the site he's working on a new tune which will show that "rap rhythms [are] an emotional undercurrent for ballads." Swayze is no stranger to keepin' it real - he starred in Ja Rule's video for "Reign" - but didn't have a "timeline" for when his foray into hip-hop would be released.

The IMDb lists Swayze as being approaching 54 years of age. If this is an attempt to recapture the youth market (or rekindle his career) I don't see either happening.