Healthy Advice

Re your profile of Joaquin Phoenix (“The Flight of One Phoenix,” by Ed Liebowitz, Aug. 13): Wow, what discipline. Herbal tea. No meat, no milk, no eggs, no leather products. I guess tobacco, being a plant product, must be healthy for you too.

I hope Joaquin didn’t learn everything he knows from his older brother or his wacky but loving parents. Whatever River learned didn’t do him much good.

CHRISTOPHER SMITH

Camarillo

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The profile of Joaquin Phoenix brings up his siblings Liberty, Rain, Summer and, of course, the late River, but how come there’s no mention that his own name was originally Leaf?

KEVIN DAWSON

Sunland