River Jude Phoenix was an Academy Award and Golden Globe- nominated American film actor. He was listed on John Willis' "Screen World, Vol. 38" as one of twelve "promising new actors of 1986", and was hailed as highly talented by such critics as Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel. However, his career was cut short when he died of an overdose of heroin and cocaine on Halloween morning at age 23. He is the older brother of Joaquin Phoenix. Wikipedia
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River Phoenix was born River Jude Bottom in a log cabin in Madras, Oregon, USA on 23 August 1970, the first son of Arlyn Sharon (nee Dunetz) and John Lee Bottom. actorbios.net/bios/pages/river_phoenix/index.htm
Its plot premise bore remarkable parallels to Phoenix's unusual upbringing having been born in a log cabin in Oregon. www.franksreelreviews.com/shorttakes/phoenix.htm
His father John had been a carpenter, his mother Arlyn was a secretary in the Bronx. They met in California in 1968 where they worked as itinerant fruit pickers. By the time River was two, they were members of the Children of God, living in South America, www.imdb.com/name/nm0000203/
River Jude Phoenix was named after the river of life in Hermann Hesse's novel Siddhartha, and The Beatles song "Hey Jude" . www.tv.com/person/13134/summary.html