Last Night at the Viper Room · River Phoenix and the Hollywood He Left Behind by Edwards, Gavin -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Dedication Contents Introduction Part One: “When You’re Young, You Just Accept What Grown-Ups Tell You”

1 - Skylarking 2 - The Searchers 3 - Dear God 4 - One Night at the Viper Room 5 - Suffer the Children 6 - Follow the Leader 7 - Another Night at the Viper Room 8 - Meat Is Murder

Part Two: “I’m Going to Be Famous”

9 - Back in the U.S.A. 10 - Johnny Came from Miami F-L-A 11 - Show-Biz Babies 12 - Let’s Work 13 - The Magnificent Seven 14 - TV Eye 15 - Echo #1: Surviving 16 - Unmapped Territory 17 - If the Sky That We Look upon Should Tumble and Fall 18 - Echo #2: Stand by Me 19 - Young Hollywood 1985 20 - Family Affair 21 - Tilt-A-Whirl

Part Three: “An Excuse to Get That Far Out of Your Head”

22 - Small-Town Hollywood 23 - Welcome to the Jungle 24 - Echo #3: The Mosquito Coast 25 - Jungle Boy 26 - Last Year at the Viper Room 27 - His Name Is Rio and He Dances on the Sand 28 - Martha My Dear 29 - Coming-of-Age Story 30 - Rattlesnake Speedway 31 - I Am an Island 32 - Young Hollywood 1987 33 - I Hope the Russians Love Their Children Too 34 - Dinnertime for the Phoenix Family, Spring 1987 35 - Party at the Zappa House 36 - Echo #4: Running on Empty 37 - Running into the Sun but I’m Running Behind 38 - Ext. Phillips House

39 - Making Plans for River 40 - Food for Life 41 - Camp Phoenix 42 - Songs in the Attic 43 - Oranges and Lemons 44 - A Night in the Life 45 - Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? 46 - Down with the Ione 47 - Our Band Could Be Your Life 48 - Rolling on the River 49 - We Are All Made of Stars 50 - Alone We Elope 51 - Young Hollywood 1989 52 - Whip It 53 - How Do You Say Good Night to an Answering Machine? 54 - Senses Working Overtime 55 - Semper Fi 56 - Int. Still Life Café 57 - The First Cut Is the Deepest 58 - The Golden Age

Part Five: “Barreling Through Someone’s Psychosis”

59 - The Bottom of the Bottomless Blue Blue Blue Pool 60 - Young Hollywood 1991 61 - Psionic Psunspot 62 - You’re Where You Should Be All the Time 63 - The Refrigerator Parable 64 - Across the Way 65 - That Night at the Viper Room 66 - Satiate Lack 67 - The Movies of River Phoenix, Ranked by American Box Office 68 - Cowboy Mouth 69 - Burn Hollywood Burn 70 - Many Rivers to Cross 71 - The Last Picture 72 - Young Hollywood 1993 73 - Tonight’s the Night 74 - I’m in a Transitional Period, So I Don’t Want to Kill You 75 - If I Had a Hi-Fi 76 - First Night at the Viper Room 77 - Give Blood

Part Six: “I Don’t Want You to Die”

78 - The Bad, Bad Town 79 - Viper Heroin X 80 - R.I.P. RJP 81 - Broken Dreams 82 - Never Gonna Wither 83 - Echo #5: Montgomery Clift 84 - Closing Time at the Viper Room 85 - Blood on the Tracks

Epilogue Acknowledgments Bibliography Notes Photographic Insert About the Author Also by Gavin Edwards Credits Copyright About the Publisher