‘Variety Confidential’: Samantha Mathis Shares Fond Memories of Ex River Phoenix, Celebrates His Impact and Fierce Activism

In the early morning hours of Oct. 31, 1993, Hollywood lost one of its brightest young stars. River Phoenix, the 23-year-old actor whose talent and charisma had made him a generational icon, collapsed outside the Viper Room nightclub in West Hollywood. Within an hour, he was pronounced dead at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. In the third […]