![]() I enjoyed Last Night at the Viper Room a lot. (It Books, 22 October 2013, e-book, 291 pages, borrowed from via #POPSUGARReadingChallenge, a book about or set in Hollywood) It ends outside a Hollywood nightclub called the Viper Room, on a Hollywood sidewalk. Putting him at the centre of a new generation of leading men emerging in the early 1990s- 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. ![]() 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. ![]() 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. ![]()
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