The Jude Phoenix River (nÃÆ' Â © Bottom ; August 23, 1970 - October 31, 1993) is an American actor, musician, and activist. He is the older brother of Rain Phoenix, Joaquin Phoenix, Liberty Phoenix, and Summer Phoenix.
Phoenix's work includes 24 movies and television appearances, and his rise to fame has led to his status as a "teen idol". She started her acting career at the age of 10, in television commercials. He starred in the science fiction adventure film Explorers (1985), and had his first major role in 1986's Stand By Me, a future film based on The Body's novel by Stephen King. Phoenix made the transition to a more adult-oriented role with Running on Empty (1988), playing the son of a fugitive parents in a well-received performance that earned him a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, and My Own Private Idaho (1991), plays gay hustler to search for his estranged mother. For his appearance at the latter, Phoenix garnered much praise and won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival, along with Best Actor from the National Society of Film Critics.
On October 31, 1993, Phoenix collapsed and died of a joint drug hangover after a drug overdose on the sidewalk outside West Hollywood nightclub The Viper Room at the age of 23. At the time of his death, Phoenix has been in the midst of filming. Dark Blood (2012).
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Phoenix was born on August 23, 1970 in Madras, Oregon, the first child of Arlyn Dunetz and John Lee Bottom. Phoenix's parents named him after the river of life from the novel Hermann Hesse Siddhartha, and he received his middle name from The Beatles song "Hey Jude". In an interview with People , Phoenix describes his parents as "hippieish". His mother was born in the Bronx, New York to an elderly Jew whose family had emigrated from Russia and Hungary. His father was a crippled Catholic from Fontana, California, of English, German and French descent. In 1968, Phoenix's mother left her family in New York City and traveled across the United States. While riding in northern California he met John Lee Bottom. They married on September 13, 1969, less than a year after the meeting.
The Phoenix family moved across the country when he was very young. Phoenix grew up in Micanopy, Florida, a small suburb of Gainesville, where they live in poverty. Phoenix has stated that they live in a "desperate situation." Phoenix often plays guitar as he and his sister sing in street corners for money and food to support their growing family. Phoenix never attended formal school. Screenwriter Naomi Foner then commented, "She is really, totally without education, I mean she can read and write, and she has a taste for it, but she has no strong roots in any kind of history or literature." This goes against a statement by George Sluizer, who claims Phoenix suffers from dyslexia.
Children of God
In 1973, the family joined a controversial new Christian religious movement, called the Children of God, as missionaries. The family resides in Caracas, Venezuela where the Children of God have placed them to work as missionaries and fruit gatherers. Although Phoenix rarely speaks of cults, he is quoted by Arlyn Phoenix in the 1994 article Esquire which says "They are disgusting, they are destroying people's lives." In an interview with November 1991 magazine Details , Phoenix said he lost his virginity at the age of four while at Children of God, "but I've blocked it."
Arlyn and John eventually grow up disappointed with the Children of God; Arlyn will then tell a reporter that she and her husband are against the practice of the Flirty Fishing group, which states: "The group is being distorted by the leader, David Berg, who is getting stronger and wealthy, trying to attract rich people through sex. Impossible. "In the late 1970s, the River family moved with Arlyn's parents in Florida. The family officially changed their name to Phoenix, after the mythical bird that rose from its own ashes, symbolizing a new beginning.
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Acting career
Back in the United States, Arlyn began working as a secretary for NBC and John broadcasters as an exterior architect. The top children's agency, Iris Burton, saw the River, Joaquin, and their sister Summer and Rain singing for redress in Westwood, Los Angeles, and were so fascinated by the family that she soon represented four siblings.
River started advertising for Mitsubishi, Ocean Spray and Saks Fifth Avenue, and soon after that he and the others were signed by casting director Penny Marshall of Paramount Pictures. River and Rain are assigned immediately to an event called Real Kids as a warm player to the audience. In 1980, Phoenix began to fully pursue his work as an actor, making his first appearance on a TV show titled Fantasy singing with his sister Rain. In 1982, River was cast in the short-lived CBS television series Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, where he starred as the youngest brother, Guthrie McFadden. River arrived in auditions with his guitar and soon exploded into a convincing Elvis Presley impersonator, dazzling the show's producers. At this age, Phoenix is ​​also a talented tap dancer.
Nearly a year after Seven Brides ended in 1983, Phoenix discovered a new role in the 1984 Celebrity television show, where he played the role of young Jeffie Crawford. Even though he's only on screen for about ten minutes, his character is central. Less than a month after Celebrity ABC Afterschool Special : Reverse: The Riddle of Dyslexia . River starred as a boy who found him suffering from dyslexia. Joaquin starred in a small role beside his brother. In September, the pilot episode of the short-lived TV series It's Your Move was aired. Phoenix acts as Brian and has only one line of dialogue. She also starred as the son of Robert Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Jr., in Robert Kennedy and His Times TV. After his role in Dyslexia was critically acclaimed, Phoenix almost immediately assumed the lead role in the film made for the next TV, Surviving: Family in Crisis . She starred as Philip Brogan with Molly Ringwald and Heather O'Rourke. Halfway during the filming of Surviving, Iris Burton contacted him about possible roles in the movie Explorers .
In October 1984 Phoenix earned the role of child geologist Wolfgang MÃÆ'¼ller in the big-budget fiction film of Joe Dante's Explorer with Ethan Hawke, and production began shortly thereafter. Released in the summer of 1985, this was Phoenix's first major film role. In October 1986, Phoenix starred together Tuesday Weld and Geraldine Fitzgerald in the famous CBS television series Circle of Violence: A Family Drama , which tells the story of old domestic abuse. This is Phoenix's last television role before reaching movie stars.
At the age of 15, Phoenix had an important role in Rob Reiner's popular film, Stand By Me (1986), which made it a household name. The Washington Post argues that Phoenix gave this film a "center of gravity". Phoenix commented: "Actually, I really identify with the role of Chris Chambers that if I do not have a family to come back after the shoot, I might have to see a psychiatrist."
Later that year Phoenix completed Peter Weir's The Mosquito Coast (1986), playing the sons of Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren's characters. "He's definitely going to be a movie star," Weir said. "It's something out of acting, Laurence Olivier has never had what River has." During five months of shooting in Belize, Phoenix started a romance with co-star Martha Plimpton, a relationship that has continued in some form over the years. Phoenix was shocked by the bad movie reception, feeling safer about his work in it than in Stand By Me .
Phoenix was the next actress to star in the teenage comedy drama A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon (1988), but was disappointed with his performance: "Not as I thought it would be, and I blame myself. want to do comedy, and it's really a stretch, but I'm not sure I'm even the right person for that role. "In 1988, Phoenix starred in Little Nikita <1988> Sidney Poitier. During this time, the Phoenix family continued to move regularly, moving more than forty times by the time the Phoenix was 18 years old. After finishing his sixth film, Sidney Lumet Running on Empty (1988), Phoenix bought his family a farm in Micanopy, Florida, near Gainesville in 1987, in addition to the distribution in Costa Rica.
In early 1989, Phoenix was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (as well as for the Golden Globe), and received the Best Supporting Actor award from the National Review Board for his role in My Blank Run. Phoenix jumped to his feet during the ceremony when Kevin Kline defeated him for the Oscars. "I have to stop River running to embrace Kevin," recalled his mother, Arlyn. "It never occurred to her that she had not won yet." That year he also described the young Indiana Jones at the box-office hit Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade directed by Steven Spielberg. In 1990, Phoenix was photographed by Bruce Weber for Vogue and a campaign spokeswoman for Gap.
In 1991, Phoenix filmed a famous independent photo called Dogfight , starring Lili Taylor and directed by Nancy Savoca. In a romantic drama that came in San Francisco, Phoenix described a young US marine the night before he was sent to Vietnam in November 1963. Taylor said that Phoenix suffered because he could not distance himself from his character: "He also never drank [drugs] she's just drinking too, it's different... It's actually the hard part for her, because it's so different from who she is, a hippie, and here she plays this sea It really makes her very uncomfortable I do not think she enjoys that, in fact, got into that soul. "During the filming he said he was performing oral sex with other male actors in preparation for playing a gay hustler in My Own Private Idaho.
Phoenix met actor Keanu Reeves while Reeves was filming Parenthood with Phoenix's brother, Joaquin. The two starred together for the first time (along with Kevin Kline, Tracey Ullman and Joan Plowright) in the 1990s I Love You to Death and again in the avant-garde movie Gus Van Sant My Own Private Idaho . In his review for Newsweek, David Ansen praised the appearance of the Phoenix: "The bonfire scene where Mike awkwardly declared his unrequited love for Scott is a miracle.In this case, and every scene, Phoenix immerses himself so much deep in character you almost forget you've seen it before: this is a very sensitive performance, sharp and comic at once ". For his role in My Own Private Idaho , Phoenix won the Best Actor award at the Venice Film Festival, National Film Critics Institute, and the Independent Spirit Award. The film and its success solidify the image of Phoenix as an actor with edgy, who leads the human potential. In that period Phoenix began using drugs such as marijuana, cocaine and heroin with some friends. In a book written by Gus Van Sant on Phoenix, Pink, the director said clearly that Phoenix was not an ordinary drug user but only occasionally, and that the actor had a more serious problem with alcohol. Phoenix always tried to hide his addiction because he was afraid they would ruin his career as they did with Martha Plimpton.
Phoenix teamed up with Robert Redford and again with Sidney Poitier for the Sneakers (1992) conspiracy/espionage thriller. A month later he started production on the ghost of Sam Shepard's art house in the West Silent Tongue (released in 1994); he was also beaten for Paul's role by Brad Pitt at A River Runs Through It . He made a cameo appearance in Van Sant Even Cowgirls earned the Blues (1993), co-starring alongside his sister Rain. Phoenix later starred in Peter Bogdanovich's country-themed movie The Thing Called Love (1993), the final image completed before his death. Phoenix began a relationship with star-mate Samantha Mathis on set.
Music
Although the Phoenix film career earns the most income for his family, it has been expressed by his close friends and relatives that his true passion is music. Phoenix is ​​a singer, songwriter, and a great guitarist. He has started teaching his own guitar at the age of five and has stated in an interview for E! in 1988 that moved his family to Los Angeles when he was nine years old so he and his sister "can be a recording artist I fall into advertising for financial reasons and act as an interesting concept". Before securing the acting agency, Phoenix and his siblings tried to forge a career in music by playing a cover version on the streets of Westwood LA district, often moved by the police as gathering crowds would block the sidewalk. From the first fruits of his film's success, Phoenix saved $ 650 to get his valuables, a guitar he wrote with what he described as "progressive and subtle folk-rock".
While working on A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon in 1986, Phoenix has written and recorded the song, "Heart to Get", specifically for the movie's end credits. 20th Century Fox cut him off the finished movie, but director William Richert returned it to his place to cut the director a few years later. During filming Phoenix met Chris Blackwell of Island Records; this meeting will give Phoenix a two-year development agreement with the label. Phoenix does not like the idea of ​​being a solo artist and enjoying collaboration; therefore he focuses on composing a band. Aleka's Attic was formed in 1987 and the lineup included his sister Rain.
Phoenix is ​​committed to gaining credibility on its own merits and declares that the band will not use its name while securing unfavorable performances for charitable organizations. Phoenix's first release was "Across the Way", co-written with bandmate Josh McKay, released in 1989 on a charity album for PETA titled Tame Yourself . In 1991, Phoenix wrote and recorded a spoken piece called "Steal Steal" for the album Milton Nascimento TXAI . Also in 1991 Aleka's Attic song "Too Many Colors" was used in the movie My Own Private Idaho, which included Phoenix in the lead role.
Aleka's Attic broke up in 1992, but Phoenix continues to write and perform. While working on The Thing Called Love in 1993, Phoenix wrote and recorded the song "Lone Star State of Mine", which he did in the movie. The song is not included in the movie soundtrack album.
In 1996, Aleka's Attic song "Note to a Friend" was released on the 1996 annuity album In Defense of Animals; Volume II and featuring Flea of ​​Red Hot Chili Peppers on bass.
Phoenix has collaborated with friend John Frusciante after his first departure from Red Hot Chili Peppers and songs "Height Down" and "Well I've Been" was released on Frusciante's second solo album Smile from the Streets You Hold in the year 1997.
Phoenix was an investor in the original House of Blues (founded by his best friend and Sneakers co-star Dan Aykroyd) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who opened the door to the public after serving a group of homeless people on Thanksgiving Day 1992.
Activism
Phoenix is ​​a dedicated animal, environmental, and political rights activist. He was the leading spokesman for PETA and won their Humanitarian Award in 1992 for fundraising efforts. In 1990, Phoenix wrote an essay on environmental awareness about Earth Day targeted at his young fanbase, printed in Seventeen magazine.
He financially assisted many environmental and humanitarian organizations, and bought 800 hectares (300 hectares) of endangered rainforests in Costa Rica. As well as giving speeches at rallies for various groups, Phoenix and his bands often play environmental benefits to the renowned charity as well as the local ones in the Gainesville, Florida area.
He campaigned for Bill Clinton in the 1992 US presidential election.
Death
On the night of October 30, 1993, Phoenix will perform with his close friend Flea of ​​Red Hot Chili Peppers on stage at The Viper Room, a Hollywood nightclub partly owned at the time by actor Johnny Depp. Phoenix had returned to Los Angeles earlier that week from Utah to complete the three weeks of interior shots left in his final project, Black Blood, a film that was finally completed in 2012. His sister Rain and brother Joaquin joined him at Hotel Nikko (now SLS Hotel) at La Cienega Boulevard. Phoenix boyfriend, Samantha Mathis, also came to see him. All present at the place of the death of Phoenix.
During the early hours of the morning of October 31, 1993, Phoenix suffered a drug overdose, and fainted outside and strained for more than five minutes. When his brother Joaquin called 9-1-1, he could not determine whether Phoenix was breathing. His brother Rain went on to give him mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
During the episode, Johnny Depp and his band P (featuring Flea, Al Jourgensen of Ministry and Phoenix friend Gibby Haynes from Butthole Surfers) are on stage. According to Haynes, the band was in the middle of their song "Michael Stipe" while Phoenix was out of place with seizures on the sidewalk. When news is filtered through the club, Flea leaves the stage and rushes out. By then, the paramedics had arrived at the scene and found the Phoenix turning dark blue, in a full heart attack and in a flat line condition. They give drugs in an attempt to restart their heart. He was rushed to the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, accompanied by Flea, through an ambulance. Further efforts to resuscitate the Phoenix did not succeed. He was declared dead at 1:31 am on the morning of October 31, 1993 at the age of 23 years.
The next day the club became an emergency temple with fans and mourners leaving flowers, pictures and candles on the sidewalk and a graffiti message on the wall of the venue. A sign was placed in a window that read, "With respect and love to River and his family, The Viper Room is temporarily closed, our heartfelt condolences to all our family, friends and loved ones. The club remains closed for a week. Depp continued to close the club every year on October 31st to sell its share in 2004.
Prior to his death, the image of Phoenix - complained in the interview - was very clean, in part because his public dedication to his social, political, humanitarian and food interests was not always popular in the 1980s. As a result, his death spawns a lot of media coverage. Phoenix is ​​described by one author as "the vegan James Dean," and comparisons are made about the youth and the sudden death of both actors.
On November 15, 1993, the autopsy found that "Toxicological studies show high concentrations of morphine and cocaine in the blood, as well as other substances in smaller concentrations." The cause of death is "double acute drug intoxication", including cocaine and morphine.
Joaquin's 9-1-1 call was recorded and broadcast by several radio and TV shows. After his death, the media actively violated the privacy of the family, including breaking into a funeral home in Miami and photographing the Phoenix body in his casket. The image was sold to National Enquirer . Joaquin was so upset that he left Hollywood for the second time.
On November 24, 1993, Arlyn "Heart" Phoenix published an open letter in the Los Angeles Times about the life and death of his son. It reads, in part:
His friends, colleagues and our whole family knew River was not an ordinary drug user. He lives at home in Florida with us and almost never becomes part of the "club" in Los Angeles. He has just arrived at L.A. from the pristine beauty and tranquility of Utah where she was filming for six weeks. We feel that the excitement and energy of the Halloween night club and the party atmosphere is beyond the usual experience and control. How many other beautiful young souls, who remain anonymous to us, have died using recreational drugs? It is my prayer that the departure of the River in this way will focus the world's attention on how painful its generation spirits are tired.
River made a big impression during his life on Earth. He found his voice and found his place. And even the River, which has the whole world on its fingertips to listen, feels the deep frustration that no one hears. What will happen? Chernobyl is not enough. Exxon Valdez is not enough. Bloody war over oil is not enough. If passing through the River opens our global heart, then I say, thank you dear, beloved son, for another gift for all of us.
Phoenix was cremated and his ashes spread on his family farm in Micanopy, Florida. After his death, Aleka's Attic broke up.
On the twentieth anniversary of Phoenix's death, musician Bob Forrest spoke of the young actor's early death who said that while Phoenix retains the image of a vegan hippie pacifist, the reality of taking the drug is much darker than anyone knows. Forrest said that Phoenix had lived with musician John Frusciante for several days before his death. This duo will go on a long drug party, barely sleeping. They will smoke crack and inject heroin and cocaine together. On the night of his death, Phoenix and Frusciante arrived at the Viper Room together, where they met Mathis and River's siblings and sisters. Forrest claims that cocaine is directly distributed among groups; However, he noticed that Phoenix did not look good. During the Depp band performance, Phoenix informs Forrest that he's not feeling well, and thinks he's overdosed. Forrest said that Phoenix rallied and re-entered the crowd, but moments later someone frantically called 9-1-1 when Phoenix collapsed outside and began to experience seizures. Forrest drove his own car to the hospital, but Phoenix was declared dead shortly after arrival.
Unreleased and unfiltered projects
The sudden death of River prevented him from playing the various roles he had thrown:
- Phoenix will begin work on Neil Jordan Interview with Vampire (1994) two weeks after his death. He will play Daniel Molloy, the interviewer, who then goes to Christian Slater, who donated all his $ 250,000 in salary to two of Phoenix's favorite charitable organizations: Earth Save and Earth Trust. The film is dedicated to Phoenix after its final credit.
- The Guardian suggested in 2003 "the possibility that Phoenix will follow [ Interview with Vampires ] by appearing as Susan Sarandon's son at Safe Passage (1994), the role given to Sean Astin.
- Phoenix has signed a lead role in Broken Dreams , a scenario written by John Boorman and Neil Jordan (directed by Boorman), and starring Winona Ryder. The film was postponed due to the death of Phoenix. In June 2012, it was announced that Caleb Landry Jones had been instrumental in the role.
- Gus Van Sant made Phoenix agree to play the role of Cleve Jones in Milk when he initially planned to film in the early 1990s. The role was eventually played by Emile Hirsch in 2008. When asked in Interview magazine, "You will be filming with River about Andy Warhol, right?" Van Sant said, "Yes, the river looks a bit like Andy in his youth, but the project never really progressed."
- In 1988, Phoenix was reportedly carrying around a copy of the 1978 memoir The Basketball Diaries . He had heard the movie version was working and wanted to play the autobiographical role of Jim Carroll. The film was sent to hiatus on numerous occasions with Phoenix being cited as a major competitor to the role every time. The Basketball Diaries were made in 1995 with Leonardo DiCaprio leading the way.
- He has expressed interest in playing the 19th-century poet Arthur Rimbaud in Total Eclipse (1995) by Polish director Agnieszka Holland. Phoenix died before the movie was cast, with the role eventually going to Leonardo DiCaprio.
Legacy
Every year on October 31st, the fans pay respects to the actor's life. His famous quote "Act like a Halloween mask you wear." often mentioned by fans on social media. Other male actors who regard Phoenix as the main influence and pave the way for them include Leonardo DiCaprio, Jared Leto, James Franco, and more.
In culture and media
The status of Phoenix as a teen idol and promising young actor, and premature death premature, make him often a subject in popular culture media. He first got a reference in music with the Brazilian singer Milton Nascimento writing the song "River Phoenix: Letter to a Young Actor" about him after seeing Phoenix at The Mosquito Coast (1986). This song appeared in the 1989 release Miltons .
Phoenix friends, Red Hot Chili Peppers, wrote a few lines for her in their hit song "Give It Away" from the 1991 Blood Sugar Sex Magik album: "There's a River born to be a giver, making you "Phoenix also appeared in the music video for their song," Breaking the Girl "and after her death, the band paid tribute to her with the song" Transcending "(originally titled" River ") on their 1995 album, One Hot Minute . Former Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante dedicated the song "Smile From The Streets You Hold" to River Phoenix. Frusciante wrote the first part of the song about their friendship while Phoenix was alive. After Phoenix's death, Frusciante wrote the second part of his memory.
Phoenix has been the subject of many other awards in songs and other media. Band R.E.M. dedicate their album Monster to Phoenix (like Michael Stipe and Phoenix are close friends), and their song "E-Bow the Letter" from 1996 New Adventures on Hi-Fi is said to have been written from a letter Michael Stipe wrote to Phoenix but was never sent because of the actor's death. River Phoenix is ​​referenced in the song "Sacred Life" from an eponymous album by the British band The Cult: "River Phoenix is ​​so young, Do not you know your prince has gone?"
Ex-10000 singer Maniacs Natalie Merchant wrote and recorded a memorable controversial song, simply named "River", featured on her 1995 solo album Tigerlily (Elektra). While he regrets the death of a "strong Hollywood son" who is "one of us", he criticizes the excesses of "vulture honesty" and the media's voracious attention to the event and adds: "Why do not you let him..//Give his father & peace of his mother ", as well as:" It's just a tragedy ", ending with the real question behind it:" How can we save him/From himself? "So he goes far beyond direct speech that most songs and writings about the death of the Phoenix River occurred at that time.
Musician Sam Phillips has dedicated "For River" on his album Martinis & amp; Bikinis . Other songs inspired by Phoenix include Dana Lyons "Song For River Phoenix (If I'm Known)", Grant Lee Buffalo "Halloween", ÃÆ'â € "Ellis Paul's song" River ", was found in a release in 1994 Stories , Rufus Wainwright's "Matinee Idol", Surf's Tone "River Phoenix", Stereophonics's "Chris Chambers", "River Phoenix" Jux County, and Santa Cruz "River Phoenix" and "River Phoenix (Part 2)".
In the 1996 album Woman & amp; a Man, Belinda Carlisle refers River in the song "California". The song opens and closes with the phrase "I remember I was in a tanning salon, when I heard that River Phoenix was gone." In Jay-Z's album, Kingdom Come , the lyrics of "Hollywood" list him as one of many victims of Hollywood pressure. The New York Japanther band featured a song on their album Skuffed Up My Huffy (2008) titled "River Phoenix", which tells of a particular event in his life and gave the choir "River Phoenix does not mean In the song "The Viper Room", Wesley Willis took a sudden change of the club's blazing account by noticing the death of Phoenix, stating that he "fainted and died like a Doberman." On the album "Not Thinking Straight", British recording artist Matt Fishel referred to Phoenix in the song "When Boy Meets Boy." The lyrics describe the bedroom in which the wall is "covered by posters of idols and rock stars who have died too young" and the third verse of the song contains the phrase "I pay a tribute with a small twinkle to River Phoenix hanging on the wall." In the accompanying music video, the Phoenix animated poster hanging on the wall next to Jimi Hendrix, Freddie Mercury, and Kurt Cobain.
Gus Van Sant, with whom Phoenix works in the movie My Own Private Idaho, presents his 1994 film Even Cowgirls Get the Blues and his novel 1997 Pink to him. Santa Cruz's experimental filmmaker Cam Archer also produced a documentary film called Drowning River Phoenix as part of his American Fame series. During the show on November 13 and November 15, 1993, and February 12, 1994, and one of Nirvana's last American shows in Seattle on January 7, 1994, Kurt Cobain of Nirvana dedicated the song "Jesus Does not Want Me for a Sunbeam" to Phoenix (among other celebrities who died young), just months before Cobain's death. Tom Petty presented "Ballad of Easy Rider" to Phoenix when he played in his hometown and Phoenix in Gainesville, Florida in November 1993.
The English band Manic Street Preachers mentioned the Phoenix in their song "Ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart" (from The Holy Bible album , 1994) in the following line: "... I'm thinking now about the Hollywood tragedy; Big Mac; Phoenix, R; Please smile you guys... "Phoenix is ​​the subject of a controversial song by the Australian group TISM titled" (She Will Never Be) Ol 'Man River "This single originally featured a mock-up of the Phoenix tombstones as its cover art in 1995. The choir features a line, "I'm on a drug that killed the Phoenix River." On the song "Love Me, Hate Me" by rapper Ja Rule, he calculates the various ways he can die as a celebrity, and one of the lyrics says "I might OD at a drug club like River Phoenix". In 1997's music, The Fix , Phoenix was alluded to in the song "Mrs Fraud" in the line, "Hot young actor died last night at LA/Ecstasy and liquor/And too much NyQuil/Has the sweetest/Warm and shy and innocent/Sexy in such a reckless way/The reporter says his heart stopped like that... "Hugh Cornwell's song" Rain on the River "from his 2009 Hooverdam album directly about death Phoenix, when his sister Rain sat on her dying brother on the sidewalk outside The Viper Room.
The lesser known reference for River Phoenix is ​​Final Fantasy VIII main spy protagonist Squall Leonhart. Tetsuya Nomura, the main character designer for the game, said he cited the face of Squall on River during development, and even gave Squall the same birth date. The 2015 TV Series, Autopsy: The Last Hour... features River Phoenix as well as a host of other celebrities. The death scenes of Phoenix are also some mention in the book William Gibson Spook Country .
The song "River, Run" by the band Suddenly, Tammy! from their notes We Get There When We Do written about him.
Rapper Tyler, the creator of referencing Phoenix in his 2017 Flower Boy, is considered by some critics to be a kind of outgoing album, as a sex symbol. In the song "I Is not Got Time", he writes in the first verse "Boy, I need a tissue.How do I get this far? My son, I can not believe that I have this car, so I take a beautiful Passenger, white skin, looks like the Phoenix River ".
Awards and ratings
Phoenix has been ranked many times on a number of lists that recognize his talent and career. He is listed as one of the twelve "Promising New Actors of 1986" in "John Willis's World of Screens" (2004). Phoenix was voted in No. 64 in the poll of "Biggest Movie Star of All Time" by Channel 4 television in the UK. The poll was made entirely from the votes of prominent figures from the acting community and directed. He is ranked No. 1. 86 on the "The Stars of the Stars of All Time" list in 1997 Empire .
His life and death have been the subject of E! True Hollywood Story , an A & amp; E Biography and an episode of Final 24 , which contains a dramatic reconstruction of its last clock and death. He is also referred to as "This is the century of James Dean" in episode 10 ("Mi Casa, Su Casa Loma") from the first season Become Erica . His death was listed as No. 16th in the top 101 events on E! Television "101 Shocking Moments in Entertainment". In 2010, Phoenix was voted by GQ Magazine as one of "The 50 Most Sophisticated Men of the Past Century".
Movieography
Movies
Television
Music videos
Note
References
Bibliography
- Holmstrom, John. The Moving Picture Boy: An International Encyclopedia from 1895 to 1995 . Norwich, Michael Russell, 1996, p.Ã, 380-381.
Further reading
- Edwards, Gavin. Last Night in the Viper Room: River Phoenix and Hollywood He Left Behind . ISBN: 0062273159.
- Glatt, John. Lost in Hollywood: The Fast Times and Phoenix River Short Life . ISBNÃ, 1-55611-440-0.
- Furek, Maxim W. Proclamation of Generation X Death: A Prisoner of Self-Fulfillment of Goth, Grunge and Heroin . ISBN 978-0-595-46319-0.
- Lawrence, Barry C. In Phoenix River Search: Truth Behind the Myth . ISBN: 0-9672491-9-8.
- Robb, Brian J. Phoenix River: short life . ISBN: 0-06-095132-X.
External links
- River Phoenix on IMDb
- River Phoenix in the TCM Movie Database
- The Phoenix River at AllMovie
- The Phoenix River in Discover the Mausoleum
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