Max B. Sawicky wrote:
There was something here or on LBO (it all seems to congeal in my mind)
associating TLJ and the Minutemen a-holes.

I don't think this qualifies as "...associating TLJ and the Minutemen a-holes."


2/2/06
Tommy Lee Jones hosts El Paso fundraiser for border groups
http://www.kltv.com/global/story.asp?s=4444076&ClientType=Printable

EL PASO, Texas Tommy Lee Jones hosted a fundraising reception and
screening of his new movie tonight to benefit a local border group.

The movie is called The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada. Jones
directed and stars in it. The plot is loosely based on the 1997 shooting
death of a high school student by a U.S. Marine stationed at the border
to help curb drug smuggling. Jones says his goal was to show the human
side of a culture bisected by an international border.

Jones plays a ranch foreman who hires an illegal immigrant. When the
employee is shot to death, Jones discovers a cover-up and leads a
cross-border odyssey to properly bury the ranch hand.

In real life, Ezequiel Hernandez Junior was killed by a Marine as the
teen tended to a herd of goats. No charges were ever filed. The federal
government later settled with Hernandez's family for about
one-point-nine (M) million dollars.

Proceeds from tonight's screening and reception will benefit the El Paso
Community Foundation, a nonprofit group that supports border area
charities.

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