[I passed through El Paso last month on the greydog, the INS/Border Patrol presence was severe and unfriendly]
It's a cult of personality thing, some have personality... some fake it.
Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee Jones used to be an item.
No longer... However, there is a remaining kinship, social activism.
Anderson has been quite active with PETA as model & spokesperson.
Here's what Tommy Lee Jones has been up to lately:
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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