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K.T. Oslin played Lucy, owner of the Bluebird Cafe, in a movie called The Thing Called Love that included some pretty famous Hollywood actors. Sandra Bullock and River Phoenix played important roles. So, too, did Trisha Yearwood.
The Thing Called Love would actually end up being Phoenix s final finished film, as the young actor died of a drug overdose two months after its release, on Oct. 31, 1993. The movie s late-summer opening did not lead to massive box office or critical acclaim; in fact, it was something of a flop and is now a very forgettable part of Bullock s filmography.
That s not to say Oslin didn t do her job. The late-1980s hitmaker was a trained theater actress who d dabbled with television work prior to taking the movie. A trailer shows her as a believable barkeep see for yourself:
Of course you go to River Phoenix s last finished film in a certain state of mind. You remember his clarity and power in films like Running on Empty and Dogfight, and against those images you hold the shots of his dead body on the sidewalk outside the Viper Club. His death still seems all wrong. How could he have been so careless of his responsibility to his own future? These thoughts are there as Peter Bogdanovich s The Thing Called Love begins, but there are more pragmatic thoughts, too: Will his performance reveal signs of the drug use that ended his life? Or will this farewell performance show him at the top of his form? The film is about four young singersongwriters who arrive in Nashville hoping to be discovered. They all gravitate to the Bluebell Cafe, which features new acts on weekend nights, and where a lot of stars have gotten their starts. Maybe, these kids dream, lightning will strike again.