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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...
River is a film more of images than of confrontational dramatic scenes. It is held together by a narration drawn from the book and related (by Redford) over sequences of an Edenic Montana 70 years ago. Norman (Craig Sheffer) is the dutiful son, a young man soberly grappling throughout the film with the question of how to find and lead a useful life. Paul (Brad Pitt) is the classic younger brother and minister's son, a charming sower of wild oats. He works casually at a raffish trade, newspaper reporting. He drinks. He gambles. He womanizes carelessly. It is only...
...report, which runs several hundred pages, also identified asthma as an allergic disease, says Sheffer. "Patients shouldn't have anunals in their homes," he says, since pets like cats and dogs can start an attack...
...They shouldn't live in a home where people smoke," he adds. "Passive smoking aggravates asthma," Sheffer says...
...while physicians and scholars nationwide digest these multiple findings, Sheffer says he's on to the next step. The Medical School professor is planning a conference to discuss ways to prevent asthma death worldwide...