Research Catalog

Title

Last night at the Viper Room : River Phoenix and the Hollywood he left behind / Gavin Edwards.

Author

Edwards, Gavin, 1968-

Publication

New York : It Books, an imprint of HaperCollins Publishers, [2013]

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Details

Description

xiii, 273 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 24 cm

Summary

In Last Night at the Viper Room, acclaimed author and journalist Gavin Edwards vividly recounts the life and tragic death of acclaimed actor River Phoenix--a teen idol on the fast track to Hollywood royalty who died of a drug overdose in front of West Hollywood's storied club, the Viper Room, at the age of 23. Last Night at the Viper Room explores the young star's life, including his childhood in Venezuela growing up under the aegis of the cultish Children of God. Putting him at the center of a new generation of leading men emerging in the early 1990's--including Johnny Depp, Keanu Reeves, Brad Pitt, Nicolas Cage, and Leonardo DiCaprio--Gavin Edwards traces the Academy Award nominee's meteoric rise, couches him in an examination of the 1990s, and illuminates his lasting legacy on Hollywood and popular culture itself.

Subjects

• Biographies
• Biography
• Actors > United States > Biography
• Phoenix, River

Genre/Form

• Biography
• Biographies
• Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-250).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

"When you're young, you just accept what grown-ups tell you" -- "I'm going to be famous" -- "An excuse to get that far out of your head" -- "We're all worth millions of planets and stars and galaxies and universes" -- "Barreling through someone's psychosis" -- "I don't want you to die" -- Epilogue.

ISBN

• 9780062273154 (hardback)
• 0062273159 (hardback)

OCLC

• 852259499
• SCSB-11535063

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library