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 Each week, Charley Walters shares some interesting information surrounding either one of the films coming up at The Dreamland or Dreamland Drive-In, or provides some top notch recommendations on how to beef up your movie pedigree at home. (These films will be available via cable providers, streaming services, and often times, your local library).
TOMMY LEE JONES
You don’t have to look like a stereotypical Hollywood leading man to become one -- Tommy Lee Jones has repeatedly demonstrated this in a career of over 60 films. And even if some of his films rate less than five stars, I’ve never seen a poor Jones performance, be it in a drama or a comedy.
After a modest upbringing in a small town in West Texas, Jones attended Harvard, where he wrote his senior thesis on Flannery O’Connor and graduated cum laude in 1969. (His roommate was Al Gore.) That same year he debuted on Broadway in John Osborne’s A Patriot for Me, and the following year he debuted on film in Love Story. (Erich Segal, who wrote both the screenplay and the subsequent novelization, had known Jones at Harvard.)
Following several more years on Broadway, in film, and on television (including the soap opera One Life to Live), Jones won an Emmy in 1983 for his portrayal of the convicted killer Gary Gilmore in The Executioner’s Song, which was based on Norman Mailer’s book. Ten years later, Jones won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in The Fugitive. He’ll also appear in the upcoming drama Finestkind, which is set in New Bedford and was filmed in Massachusetts earlier this year.
Which leads me to a Completely Subjective List of my favorite Tommy Lee Jones films.
Coal Miner’s Daughter
The Fugitive
The Hunted
In the Valley of Elah
Lincoln
No Country for Old Men
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (which Jones also directed)
Charley Walters
Film for Thought Co-Programmer
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