Film & TV
August 15, 2018
Texas Monthly Trove: The Story of Bernie Tiede
Skip Hollandsworth revisits his epic story about a beloved funeral director, a wealthy widow, and their deeply troubled relationship.
Bernie Tiede
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Film & TV
May 27, 2016
Bernie in Hell
Two decades after killing Marjorie Nugent, Bernie Tiede was sentenced this spring for her murder—again. So what do we make of him now?
Film & TV
December 23, 2015
Richard Linklater, Matthew McConaughey, and Jack Black Are Holding A Fundraiser For Bernie
Tiede, not Sanders.
Film & TV
June 10, 2014
About a Boy
Richard Linklater on Boyhood, Bernie, and the disappearing indie landscape.
The Culture
May 9, 2014
Roar of the Crowd
Bernie walks free.
Can't Make This Up
May 6, 2014
Bernie Has Been Released From Prison
And he'll live in Richard Linklater's garage apartment.
Update
January 25, 2014
Bernie Returns!
Bernie Tiede, the Carthage man whose story of shooting the town's richest widow inspired a movie, may be walking free next week.
Film & TV
January 21, 2013
Lights, Camera, Carthage!
Nearly fifteen years after Richard Linklater and I started talking about turning a Texas Monthly story into a major motion picture, it’s finally hitting the big screen, with a little help from Jack Black, Matthew McConaughey, Shirley MacLaine—and a seventy-year-old retired hairdresser from Rusk named Kay Baby Epperson.
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April 30, 2012
A Q&A With Skip Hollandsworth
The executive editor on what it was like to work with Richard Linklater on Bernie, the star-studded film based on an East Texas murder story.
True Crime
January 1, 1998
Midnight in the Garden of East Texas
In sleepy Carthage a rich, haughty widow disappears, and nobody seems to notice. When she turns up dead, everybody seems to feel sympathy for the nice young man who killed her.