Despite dire reports about his health -- he has been receiving treatments for
pancreatic cancer -- and tabloid photos of him looking gaunt and haggard,
Patrick Swayze plans to return to work on the A&E series Beast,
published reports said Friday. In the series, Swayze plays an FBI agent whose
methods are so unorthodox that he is hounded by the bureau's internal-affairs
department. "I have searched for quite a long time to find a character that is
this multilayered, unpredictable and downright entertaining," Swayze said in a
statement Friday. Meanwhile, the TVNewser website reported on Sunday that
Nightline correspondent Martin Bashir will return to work after doctors
discovered a "small growth" on his pituitary gland. The website cited an ABC
News spokesperson as saying that doctors plan to monitor the situation from
month to month. �
09/06/2008
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