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I MADE THIS PAGE BECAUSE I LOVE..RIVER PHOENIX..
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River's Petition
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Birth Name: River Jude Bottom
Height: 5'11"
Nationality: American
Birth Date: August 23, 1970
Birth Place: Madras, Oregon, USA
Profession: actor, musician
Place of Death: Hollywood, California,USA
Death Date: October 31, 1993
Death Cause: drug-induced heart failure
Relationship: Martha Plimpton (actress, born on November 16, 1970),
Samantha Mathis (actress, born on May 12, 1970;
dated while co-starring in The Thing Called Love),
Suzanne Solgot (actress)
Father: John Bottom Amram (former landscaper; former Children of God archbishop of Venezuela and the Caribbean Islands)
Mother: Arlyn Dunitz Jochebed (a secretary for NBC in 1978; former migrant fruit picker; former independent Christian missionary)
Sister: Summer Joy Phoenix (aka. Summer Phoenix; actress, musician; born December 10, 1978),
Libertad Mariposa Phoenix (aka. Liberty Phoenix; actress; born July 5, 1976),
Rain Joan of Arc Phoenix (aka. Rainbow Phoenix; actress, musician; born March 31, 1973)
Brother: Joaquin Phoenix (actor, born October 28, 1974)
Claim to fame: as Mike Waters in My Own Private Idaho (1991)
RIVER FACTS
* One Saturday River along with girlfriend Samantha Mathis and siblings Joaquin and Rain spent the evening at Johnny Depp's club Viper Room. In the early hours of Sunday morning River collapsed. He was rushed to Cedars Sinai Medical Center but to no avail he was pronounced dead at 01:30 am.
*River and Rain sang on street corners to provide food for the family. The family were living in poverty and decided to leave The Children of God.
*He and Christian Slater were both offered the role of Eric Draven in THE CROW (1994) before Brandon Lee.
*BRAZIL (1985) was his favorite movie, and he had been filming Dark Blood with Jonathan Pryce. As a gift, Pryce arranged for Phoenix to meet Terry Gilliam, his hero. The meeting was set to happen the day he died outside the Viper Room. Phoenix never met him.
*At the end of SNEAKERS (1992), when he just asks for the phone number of the female agent (the one with the Uzi), she volunteers it. The number she offers is the first time in decades that a motion picture or TV show used a phone number for a fictional character that did not start with the standardized prefix, '555-'.
*He was cast as The Interviewer in INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE: THE VAMPIRE CHRONICLES (1994), but died before filming began.
*In STAND BY ME (1986), Grownup Gordie tells us the fate of the other three boys. Two of the actors had later experiences, which paralleled those of their characters: Corey Feldman got into trouble with the law, and River Phoenix Died.
*Izzy Singer was originally to be played by him but 'Astin, Sean' got the part after Phoenix's death (SAFE PASSAGE (1994)).
*When describing how he prepared for playing the role of young Indiana Jones in INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE (1989), he explained that he didn't really base his portrayal on the Indiana Jones character. Instead, he decided to do his rendition of actor Harrison Ford. So he observed Ford out of character before acting his part.
*Nominated for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture at Golden Globe Awards for RUNNING ON EMPTY (1989)
*Nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role at Academy Awards for RUNNING ON EMPTY (1989)
