Last Night at the Viper Room: River Phoenix and the Hollywood He Left Behind (31 page)

River in 1991.

© by MR Photo/Corbis Outline

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

GAVIN EDWARDS
is a contributing editor for
Rolling Stone
and has written for
Details, Spin
, and the
New York Times Magazine
. He is the author of six books, including the
New York Times
bestseller
VJ
, which he cowrote with the original MTV VJs. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and their two sons.

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’Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy
:
And Other Misheard Lyrics

CREDITS

Cover design by Amanda Kain

Cover photographs © by Lance Staedler/Corbis Outline

COPYRIGHT

LAST NIGHT AT THE VIPER ROOM
. Copyright © 2013 by Gavin Edwards. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

FIRST EDITION

Photo research by Laura Wyss and Wyssphoto, Inc.

ISBN 978-0-06-227315-4

EPUB Edition November 2013 ISBN 9780062273192

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