Jamie Foxx and Tommy Lee Jones star in Maggie Betts' 'The Burial,' and PEOPLE has an exclusive first look at the upcoming legal drama based on a true story ...

Tommy Lee Jones is a brilliant actor, especially in roles demanding curmudgeonliness, and until Burnsy brought it to my attention, I didn’t realize he was also an all-Ivy League guard for ...

And Tommy Lee would go, 'Well, you got better actors now.' Much like the late, iconoclastic actor Dennis Hopper, Jones has parlayed his Hollywood fame into a nuanced, increasingly independent career.

Tommy Lee Jones gave the nominating speech for his old college roommate, Al Gore, as presidential candidate at the 2000 Democratic National Convention. Akhtar Hussein/Contributor.

Tommy Lee Jones: I notice there are a lot of — on those political shows in Washington — there are a lot of barking jackasses. And I tend to not keep my television tuned on to them.

Tommy Lee Jones: Al Gore has been one of my closest friends since the day we met, on the first day of college, 35 years ago. There are plenty of people at this convention who can and will speak to ...