Happy 51st Birthday River Phoenix
Waldina
English - August 23, 2021 16:05 - 8 minutes - 7.76 MBArts Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Today is the 51st birthday of the actor and activist River Phoenix. We are the same age and I even saw him once in Seattle. He is in my favorite Indiana Jones film and my favorite Gus van Sant film My Own Private Idaho. He filmed a movie in Tacoma’s North End and we heard rumors of him being at this coffee shop and sightings here and there, but I never actually saw him. Years later, I did get an autograph (my only autograph of any kind) from his one-time girlfriend and The Goonies alumna Martha Plimpton. It’s written on a Barneys New York thank you card and simply says “screw you!” and her signature. The world is a better place because he was in it and still feels the loss that he has left.
This episode is also available as a blog post: http://waldina.com/2021/08/23/happy-51st-birthday-river-phoenix/
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