THE 25 MOST INTRIGUING PEOPLE OF 1993: TOMMY LEE JONES The mean-lookin', tough-talkin' ex-Harvard jock made The Fugitive arresting and himself a star.
Sometimes physiognomy really is destiny. Take a look at Tommy Lee Jones. This combustible cowboy has the brooding eyes, rugged complexion and coolly bemused expression of a predator, outlaw or schemer -- precisely the kinds of roles Jones has nailed in movie after movie. Whether a relentless deputy U.S. marshal chasing Harrison Ford in The Fugitive or a murderous Vietnam vet in Oliver Stone's new Heaven and Earth, Jones's face advertises a wealth of anger that the man inside has no trouble delivering.
Perhaps that's because Tommy Lee, 47, isn't just acting. A native of hardscrabble San Saba, Texas, Jones, only son of a cowboy turned oil rigger.
The real Tommy Lee?
''He's a settled-down papa,'' laughs Lisa Taylor, an actress Jones
loved and lived with for a years starting in 1975. "I still adore him!"
Jones lives on a big San Antonio ranch with his second wife, Kimberlea, and their children Austin and Victoria. For fun he plays polo -- and reads Tolstoy. If that doesn't conjure up any cowboys you know -- shoot, that's not his problem. Better to forget figuring him out. As Gary Devore, who wrote
Jones's 1981 film Back Roads, says, ''It's that complexity that makes him fascinating. You are never going to feel like you really know Tommy.''
