local goth woman took the time to squint at this for like ten minutes, so here's what the big paragraph says:
"With his crystal-blue eyes and razor-sharp bone structure, 26-year-old Joaquin Phoenix is more than your average Hollywood pretty boy. This man has principles. He's a strict vegan and once caused chaos at a Prada shoot by refusing to wear leather shoes. Brother of River, Joaquin (pronounced Wa-keen) was born in Puerto Rico to hippy parents. As a youngster he decided he wanted a more earthy name like his siblings River and Rain, so he chose Leaf. 'No one could pronounce Joaquin and I used to get really embarrassed. All the other children in my family had gorgeous names and I got Joaquin - even I can't say it,' he admits. It wasn't until he was 18 that he reverted to his birth name. After his beloved brother River collapsed and died from a drug overdose on Halloween 1993, Joaquin abandoned acting for a while until he starred as Nicole Kidman's love interest in To Die For and later Inventing The Abbots, where he met Liv Tyler whom he dated for two years. So what's the real Joaquin like? 'Pretty boring. I like to spend time with my family. I do normal things like have dinner or watch movies. I'm not a social guy. I'm quiet by nature.' So would we struggle to get his name right on a date? 'When I go out with the ladies, I don't force them to pronounce my name. I tell them I go by the nickname of Kitten.' Cute."
