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- PEOPLE, Page 80The Young and the FurlessBy EMILY MITCHELL/Reported by Jeannie Park
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- The band has rarely appeared in public, but one face is
- familiar. RIVER PHOENIX, 18, his sister RAINBOW and three friends
- will perform their own music in a February "Rock Against Fur"
- benefit at New York City's Palladium organized by People for the
- Ethical Treatment of Animals. Phoenix, a vegetarian, does not wear
- leather "except on some films when I've had to for the character."
- His strong convictions about the environment and animal rights are
- a legacy from his flower-children parents. "You have to make
- changes in life to fit your ethical and moral beliefs," he says.
- In the forthcoming Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, the third
- movie in the Raiders of the Lost Ark saga, he is, by his own
- account, a "boy on a train." But the teen idol, who was born in a
- log cabin in Oregon and has lived in almost 40 different homes with
- his peripatetic family, was reportedly typecast and plays the
- adventurer Jones as a youth.