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He had a prolific television career, landing major roles in several TV movies like Surviving: A Family in Crisis, which also starred Molly Ringwald, and playing Robert Kennedy Jr.

But Heart managed to leverage her administrative job with NBC to help get her children signed with famous talent agent Iris Burton, who quickly cast River in the musical television show Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. When they finally got an apartment, the family of seven was living in a one-bedroom that didn't allow children. The Phoenixes were homeless for a time, sleeping in their car around LA. In the meantime, River and his siblings would perform music and comedy sketches on street corners to make extra money.

They lived on Heart's family property in Micanopy, Florida, until deciding to move to Los Angeles where she eventually got a job working for NBC. After escaping from Children of God, the Bottom family changed their name to Phoenix, a testament to the symbolic creature who rises from its own ashes.