![]() After graduating in 1975, he failed to make it in Hollywood, and ended up in Portland, Oregon. “The camera was this little machine that could make images, like paintings, twenty-four times a second,” he said. After he saw Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange his freshman year, he abandoned painting in favor of film. Gus Van Sant grew up in Darien, Connecticut, and attended the Rhode Island School of Design. The lead characters were street hustlers who sexually service male customers - subject matter that was not just outré, but taboo in mainstream moviemaking. The project upped the perspiration rates of both actors’ agents, managers, and other handlers - Iris Burton had refused to pass it on to the Phoenix family. ![]() His cargo: the treatment for a movie called My Own Private Idaho, by director Gus Van Sant. ![]() ![]() Just before Christmas 1989, that was how Keanu Reeves went to see his friend River Phoenix, riding his motorcycle from Canada all the way down the eastern United States, until he reached Gainesville, Florida. ![]()
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