The lost boy

This very moving article in the Guardian Unlimited Film section asks "Where would River Phoenix be today if he had lived?" I was one of those who idolised River when he was alive, in a very maternal sort of way. I cried for days when he died, not like a son of mine had died, but like a son of a best friend had died. This story, telling of all the films that he would have made or might have made, and all the lives he touched, and how the fickle media has all but forgotten him, made me very sad.