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Article: Nothing personal for Tommy Lee; to the cinema.(Features)
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- Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- January 11, 2008
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Byline: By ROBIN WALKER
TOMMY Lee Jones, like the screen characters he usually plays, is a brusque man of few words with a Texan drawl and old-school politeness. Don't expect him to bare his soul for publicity's sake and you'll get along just fine.
The part-Cherokee Texan of predominantly Welsh-extraction has made a career out of depicting stoic men as weathered as the lines on his face. His two latest roles are a case in point - a grizzled sheriff pining for the old days in Joel and Ethan Coen's No Country For Old Men and the anguished father of a casualty of the Iraq War in Paul Haggis's searing In The Valley Of Elah.
Both films slice into ...