Patrick Swayze talks to Barbara Walters about his battle with pancreatic cancer in an interview at 10 tonight on ABC. Despite his illness, Swayze has taken on a lead role in the A&E drama series "The Beast," debuting Jan. 15.

"I've never been one to run from a challenge," Swayze tells Walters in his first interview since the diagnosis last January. Still, he admits, "You can bet that I'm going through hell. And I've only seen the beginning of it."

"There's a lot of fear here," the "Dirty Dancing" star tells her. "There's a lot of stuff going on. Yeah, I'm scared. Yeah, I'm angry. Yeah, I'm [asking] why me. Yeah, I'm all this stuff."

Swayze, 56, realized something was wrong in late 2007, as he celebrated New Year's Eve with his wife, Lisa Niemi. "I tried to have champagne, and it would be like pouring acid, you know, on an open wound."

Pancreatic cancer is extremely difficult to diagnose, and only after a battery of procedures over several days were his doctors able to make a definitive diagnosis: Stage 4 pancreatic cancer.

Although the majority of patients with advanced stage pancreatic cancer die within six months of diagnosis, Swayze told Walters his response to the diagnosis was, "Watch me! You watch what I pull off."

Beating the odds, Swayze has lived with his cancer for a year and has stayed out of the spotlight, except when he appeared on the televised "Stand Up To Cancer" fundraiser last September. The crowd leapt to its feet when he walked on stage.

Swayze has been filming the new TV series called "The Beast," working 12 hours or more each day, mostly in cold, nighttime conditions.

In five months Swayze has missed only a day and a half of work.

"And," he says, "I can keep going."

It's Michael Moore -- or less. Less of Michael Moore, that is.

New York Post gossip site Page Six reported that the documentary filmmaker, who has reported on the health-care system, was shedding pounds at the Pritikin Longevity Center & Spa in Aventura, Fla.

It's a return trip for Moore, who has hovered around 300 pounds in the past and lost weight at the spa, only to gain the weight again.

His next as-yet-untitled project, according to imdb.com, is a look at the global financial crisis and the U.S. economy during the transition between the Obama and Bush administrations.

Lindsay Lohan says she hasn't split with DJ Samantha Ronson, despite media reports they had publicly sparred several times over the holidays.

In a brief post on her MySpace blog, the 22-year-old actress wrote: "We did NOT break up!"

Lohan asked several media outlets "AND every GOSSIP Web site" to get their stories straight.

She also complained that her friends had been e-mailing her to console her about the rumored breakup with Ronson, 31. The pair had confirmed their relationship in September. (Associated Press)

You couldn't miss the wedding band on Craig Ferguson's ring finger when he returned to CBS' "The Late Late Show" from his holiday break.

Ferguson held his left hand up to the camera and announced that he'd gotten married. The 46-year-old talk-show host said he'd tied the knot with art dealer Megan Wallace Cunningham.

This is Ferguson's third marriage. He has a 7-year-old son Milo from his second marriage. (AP)

Brit singer Amy Winehouse dropped her appeal in a Norwegian drug case and will accept a fine for illegal marijuana possession in 2007, her lawyer said.

Winehouse and her husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, were arrested during a concert stop in the western city of Bergen in October 2007 on charges of possessing a quarter-ounce of marijuana. They were held overnight and released after paying fines of 3,000 kroner ($428).

Winehouse, 25, later appealed the fine, claiming Norwegian police made mistakes in the case. But, "after a careful review of the whole matter, they decided to drop the appeal," attorney Ole Kvelstad said by telephone. He refused to give reasons for the decision to withdraw the appeal. (AP)