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VITAL STATISTICS: Gorgeous, pouting brunette, whose charmed career (TV star at sixteen, movie star at nineteen) was blighted by personal tragedy when long-time boyfriend River Phoenix died in 1993.
CURRICULUM VITAE: Pump up the Volume; This is my Life; Super Mario Bros; Thing Called Love; The Music of Chance; Jack and Sarah; Little Women; American President.
FINEST MOMENT: Dancing with co-star John Travolta while making Broken Arrow. "We got a karaoke machine and they put on "You're the One that I Want". The next thing I know, John drops to his knees and sings, �I got chills, they're multiplyin'', and I went with it. He picked me up, he spun me around, we did the whole thing. Now I can die a happy woman: I've danced with John Travolta."
ALL-TIME LOW: "1994 was the worst year of my life. There's not a day goes by when I don't think of River."
MOST LIKELY TO: Insist she's not the daughter of Johnny Mathis.
LEAST LIKELY TO: Be seen at The Viper Room. "My life is really square and quiet," she says. "I've mellowed in my old age."
WILL NEXT BE SEEN: Toting a gun in Broken Arrow and wielding a needle and thread in How to Make an American Quilt.
IN HER OWN WORDS: "My Grandmother told me, �If you can meet with triumph and disaster, and treat those two imposters just the same, yours is the earth and everything that's in it.' It's Kipling. I think that's really important in this business, to know that none of it really means anything."
THIS YEARS: Samantha Mathis