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...while the audience is puzzling that out, "A River Runs Through It" happily recounts the Huckleberry Finn-like childhood of Norman Maclean (played by Craig Sheffer) and his brother Paul (Brad Pitt). Their father (Tom Skerritt) is both a preacher and a fisher, sermonizing from the pulpit, the study and from the river banks. The Reverend Maclean teaches them equal respect for God's word and God's fish. As he is happy to remind his children, the apostles were all fishers - and fly fishers at that...
Visually, the directing is sublime. Director of Photography Philippe Rousselot makes every fishing line shine in the sun and every river glint with promised fish. Some of the fishing sequences are absolutely spectacular as the camera goes from fisher, to fishing line to fish. How do you direct a fish? I guess if you're a good enough fisherman, you can make a fish do anything. Some mention should be made of the film's four "Fly Fishing Consultants...
...Mary Fisher, who contracted the AIDS virus from her former husband and called for more action against the disease at the Republican Convention in August, has been named by President Bush to take Magic Johnson's place on the National Commission on AIDS. The daughter of Max Fisher, a top G.O.P. contributor, she recently founded the Family AIDS Network, a support group for families of AIDS patients. Said she: "We're all one family, and we want to have an end to this epidemic." But she conceded last week that little is likely to be done before the election...
...Fisher says that he envisions introducingspeakers, conferences and workshops, but does notplan to institute mandatory activities. Heconcedes, therefore, that since the project willinvolve only those students who choose toparticipate, it risks addressing only those whoare already aware of the problem...
...However, Fisher says the effort has receivedenthusiastic support from students and staff. Hesays that he is optimistic, but adds, "I partlymade a two-year commitment to indicate I'm notgoing to build Rome...