River Phoenix Was Going to Be Bigger Than DiCaprio — A Nightclub Sidewalk Ended Everything at 23

At 1:51 in the morning on October 31, 1993, doctors at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center pronounced River Phoenix dead.He was twenty-three years old. An hour earlier he had been standing on a sidewalk on the Sunset Strip, outside a nightclub called the Viper Room, convulsing while his little brother screamed into a telephone for help. He had been the most gifted young actor of his generation. The roles that would have made him immortal were already waiting for him.This is the story of what Hollywood lost on that sidewalk.If you believe the great ones deserve to be remembered, subscribe to our channel, because the nineties still have truths left to tell.