by Brian Brooks (December 13, 2005)
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The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada" director/star
Tommy Lee Jones (second from left) brought out his former college roommate,
Al Gore (Jones said they lived together forty years ago this summer) for the New York premiere of his latest film, which is also his directorial debut. The New York screening was co-hosted by the
Museum of the Moving Image at the
Paris Theater. Following the screening, we followed the former Veep (wish we could say Prez) and wife
Tipper Gore (right) to a dinner organized by famed New York publicist
Peggy Siegal (not pictured). Jones and Gore posed for a pic at
Brasserie 8 1/2 along with
Michael Barker, co-president of
Sony Pictures Classics and Jones' wife,
Dawn Jones. The dinner included steak and fries (or polente for the veggies) as well as corn tortillas and salsa and some damn good margaritas.