Paying Tribute to the Swayz at Central CinemaOrganizer Clinton McClung passes out party favors as the first notes of “I’ve Had the Time of My LIfe,” the words to which everyone inside the packed Central Cinema theater knows by heart, sound from the speakers. The lights dim and hands clutching lit candles immediately dart up. An image of the man himself–shirtless and in the full vigor of youth–appears on screen and the crowd rightly swoons. “Crazy About Swayze,” McClung and theater owner Kevin Spencer’s full-throated celebration of the sometimes cheesy, but always compelling, films of its namesake Patrick Swayze, is set to begin. McClung hadn’t planned on the event being so timely. He and Spencer, both long-time Swayze fans, had wanted to pay tribute to the man before he lost the battle to pancreatic cancer. When Swayze succumbed earlier this week, Spencer had the marquee outside the theater changed to read “Crazy Sad About Swayze,” and what began as a double bill of Dirty Dancing and Road House became a memorial of sorts. McClung cobbled together a tribute video of the actor’s greatest celluloid moments, and other Swayze related obscurities, which went over thusly:From Dirty Dancing: “No, the-the way he saved her. I-I mean, I-I could never do anything like that. That was somethin’. I mean, the reason people treat me like I’m nothin’ is because I’m nothin’.” “You’re not, nothin’. You’re everything.”Crowd reaction: Melt. As bouncer with a heart of gold, Dalton in Road House: “Pain Don’t Hurt”Crowd reaction: Guffaw.From Ghost, the following exchange: “I love you Molly. I always have.” “Ditto.” Crowd reaction: Swoon, and swoon again.And finally, Swayze Dancing.Crowd reaction: Small eruptions of glee.Judging by how the audience thinned after the first feature ended, the night clearly belonged to the overdose of saccharine that is Dirty Dancing. But is it is possible to appreciate both of these, the vulnerable hunk, and zen-badass? Enter Clinton McClung, who has an undying love for everything Swayze: “He made movies that the boys and girls, gays and straights all love.” Such was Swayze, an actor who could make even the most hardened among us embrace the 13 year old girl inside.