![]() ![]() Also in 1987 Phoenix landed a part in the feature film "Maid To Order" along side Ally Sheedy.Īt 15, Phoenix returned to her roots in music and formed the band Aleka's Attic with then 17 year old brother River. Various bit parts followed in tv shows including "Amazing Stories" in 1986 and "Family Ties" in 1987. She returned to her original name as a teenager). Rain sang with brother River as an audience warm up act on the show "Real Kids (1982)" (around this time, Phoenix changed her name to "Rainbow" deeming 'Rain' to be "too dreary". Arlyn took a job at NBC and eventually secured all five Phoenix children with an agent. In West Los Angeles Phoenix and her siblings would perform on the streets for crowds of people. The family set out for California in order for the children to enter the entertainment indusry. They returned to the United States in 1978 and the family adopted the surname "Phoenix" to represent new beginnings. Soon the other Phoenix children joined them and they would perform on the streets of Caracus, Venzuela for loose change while handing out christian flyers to passers by. It was there, at the age of three, that Phoenix (accompanied by elder brother River on guitar) first began to sing. They married in 1969 and joined the religious cult the Children of God and worked as missionaries and in South America. ] In 1968, Phoenix's mother left her family and moved to California, meeting Phoenix's father while hitch-hiking. ] ] ] Her father, John Lee Bottom, was a lapsed Catholic from Fontana, California. Her mother, Arlyn Sharon ( née Dunetz), was born in the Bronx, New York to Jewish parents from Hungary and Russia. Phoenix was born Rain Joan of Arc Bottom in Crockett, Texas. Phoenix has been a vegan from the age of 5. Phoenix has four siblings: two brothers, actors Joaquin and the late River Phoenix, and two sisters, Summer and Liberty. Rain Phoenix ( November 21, 1972) is an American actress, musician, and singer. I found it rambling, without point, without comic or dramatic value and, put plainly, a real shambles of a movie that was an effort to get through.Birthdate = birth date and age|1972|11|21 Overall this is not the worst film in the world and some may like it for it's freewheeling nature, lack of linear plot and attempts at humour by creating one `unusual/weird' situation after another. Cameos from Keanu Reeves, Roseanne Barr, Sean Young, Rain Phoenix and Begley Jnr slightly add interest but really just provide yet more poorly constructed characters to not care about. Hurt is an embarrassment and I really wondered what on earth had made him sign up for this. Bracco is a mess - no character, poor lines and dropping her trousers for a film of no merit. Instead she tries to wring humour out of the film by embracing any moment which may have had some value in it's unusual actions. Thurman looks lost and as unsure of her character as I was. When a group of women drops their trousers and march on a crowd, frightening them with their `unhygienic vaginas' you know that things are not as they should be! The actors cannot save this mess. Most of the characters have no depth to them - even Sissy herself is a poorly constructed character who's motivations and feelings are so badly explained that they might as well have been just presented and then forgotten (oh, hang on, they were!). The lack of any real characters was a major problem for me as I had not even one character who could help me get into this mess of a film. The opening scenes are funny enough to start my interest but after that it all just falls apart as one pointless scene follows another. Scenes and plot devices have almost no wider meaning and it all feels like a collection of unusual ideas which have been fired at a script in the hope it all works out. The plot is a road movie style affair but it lacks any sort of cohesion at all. I can only assume he meant funny as in `so bad it's good' type laughs, as I was simply left annoyed and bewildered by the whole film. Reading a critic deriding Kill Bill by saying that it's lack of humour left `Even Cowgirls etc' as Thurman's funniest film, I decided to watch it to see what he meant. She travels to the ranch of The Countess and gets involved in a lesbian love affair, a siege involving wildlife and all manner of soul searching. ![]() She travels for years, being a model as well, before she is drawn back to the city with a job offer. ![]() Sissy Hankshaw is born with extraordinary thumbs and it is at some point in her teenage years when she decides that hitchhiking must have been God's plan for her life. ![]()
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