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Texas Monthly has been around for fifty years, and it feels like Tommy Lee Jones has been old for nearly all of them. He’s one of those actors whose fame is bound up with his age; a Google search for “Tommy Lee Jones + craggy” returns more than 70,000 results. For many audiences, Jones blinked into existence somewhere around the early nineties, as the stony face of authority seen in movies such as The Fugitive and Men in Black, or on TV as Lonesome Dove’s Woodrow Call. He’d been acting for two decades before that, playing a lot of villains and other violent men whose menacing eyes could turn suddenly misty and wounded; who could disarm you with a laconic witticism delivered in a Texas…

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