open image in gallery Martha Plimpton and River Phoenix in a publicity still for ‘Running on Empty’ in 1988 (Warner Bros/Kobal/Shutterstock) I ask what happens when you’re an impressionable ...

And at the Oscars in 1989, River Phoenix (RIP) and Martha Plimpton had that down. They were pre-grunge style gods, paving the way for a decade of glorious no-fucks-given style. Seriously ...

River Phoenix is sometimes compared to James Dean ... who turns 23 this year. Martha Plimpton, Phoenix’s long-ago girlfriend and co-star, has performed extensively on stage and television ...

“And in Los Angeles,” the newscaster said, “actor River Phoenix…” A sudden rush ... by his real-life sweetheart at the time, Martha Plimpton, who I had already interviewed earlier ...

Martha Plimpton rose to youthful fame after appearing as a precocious and interesting teenager in the 1985 movie “The Goonies,” and showing up opposite River Phoenix in Sidney Lumet’s Oscar ...

And this is Martha Plimpton we're talking about! She dated River Phoenix! She's one of our favorite '80s-'90s stars of all time, and her ensuing theatrical career is not to be taken lightly.

This story was written by Gerard Evans and Corky Siemaszko.) The brief life of actor River Phoenix ran dry when he collapsed and died mysteriously early yesterday outside a Sunset Boulevard ...

River Phoenix died 25 years ago ... He once fled a restaurant in tears after girlfriend Martha Plimpton ordered shellfish. "I drank a Diet Coke once and he was furious with me," the actress ...

One remembers that Plimpton’s high-profile, teenage relationship with her Mosquito Coast co-star River Phoenix in the late Eighties foundered because of the addiction problems that would kill ...

River Phoenix is sometimes compared to James Dean ... who turns 23 this year. Martha Plimpton, Phoenix’s long-ago girlfriend and co-star, has performed extensively on stage and television ...