the little girl -- Alisan Porter -- because Jimmy was not going to do off-camera work anymore because he was so angry at John. But even with all of that going on, it still remains one of those movies where people say, "Aw, I loved that movie when I was a kid. It was so sweet!" Road House (1989) -- "Doc" KL: Well, there you go. I mean, what can you say? I got a call from my agent, and I had just done Drugstore Cowboy , which was a little different, but he said, "There's this other movie." I was actually one of the last contract players, I guess, but I had a two-picture deal with United Artists, which I don't remember signing it, but apparently I had it, and that's how Road House first came up. The actress who'd been cast first to play against Patrick Swayze was Annette Bening, but she was fired. Patrick just didn't feel any chemistry with her or something. I don't know what it was. But I didn't know who she was, I didn't know what this movie was, all I knew was who Patrick Swayze was, and that's because he'd just done Dirty Dancing , which was a big movie. And I thought, "Man, he's a really interesting guy," so I took the script, but then I read it and I was like, "Okay, I don't understand what this is. There's a big-wheel truck, there's a bad guy, there's a doctor in