In this second promo image, you'll see that Swayze, who was 5 feet 10 inches tall, according to IMDb, is not just up on a plank of wood, but leaning on the front of his feet.

Swayze, born in 1952 in Houston, played football as a teenager but turned to dancing by the late 1960s. He is pictured here circa 1967 with partner Sharon Schoettle in a photo for Houston's Morris ...

I really, really dig Patrick Swayze. And I don’t mean that in an ironic, kitschy way, the way some people dig Journey’s Greatest Hits album or reruns of “Mama’s Family.” I mean it sincerely.