Pulp International - Promo still from Roadhouse

Sep 15 2009

It's my way or the highway.

Patrick Swayze (right) in a scene from 1989’s Roadhouse, one of the most uproariously entertaining bad movies ever released, a preposterously macho slugfest that imparted more wisdom than the Ten Commandments and Bhagavad Gita combined, and inadvertently gave us one of the best drinking games* ever invented.

*Many claim to have invented Road House drinking games. Ours is deceptively simple. Take a drink whenever one character imparts a piece of declarative wisdom to another. Examples include: "Pain don't hurt," "It'll get worse before it gets better," and of course, "It's my way or the highway." What's good about this game is the discussion over what, in fact, qualifies as declarative wisdom. Good luck.

Road House Patrick Swayze cinema deaths

The headlines that mattered yesteryear.

2003—Hope Dies

Film legend Bob Hope dies of pneumonia two months after celebrating his 100th birthday.

1945—Churchill Given the Sack

In spite of admiring Winston Churchill as a great wartime leader, Britons elect Clement Attlee the nation's new prime minister in a sweeping victory for the Labour Party over the Conservatives.

1952—Evita Peron Dies

Eva Duarte de Peron, aka Evita, wife of the president of the Argentine Republic, dies from cancer at age 33. Evita had brought the working classes into a position of political power never witnessed before, but was hated by the nation's powerful military class. She is lain to rest in Milan, Italy in a secret grave under a nun's name, but is eventually returned to Argentina for reburial beside her husband in 1974.

1943—Mussolini Calls It Quits

Italian dictator Benito Mussolini steps down as head of the armed forces and the government. It soon becomes clear that Il Duce did not relinquish power voluntarily, but was forced to resign after former Fascist colleagues turned against him. He is later installed by Germany as leader of the Italian Social Republic in the north of the country, but is killed by partisans in 1945.

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