True Crime
August 29, 2022
Out of All the Skip Hollandsworth Crime Stories, ‘Bernie’ Takes the Cake
The writer looks back on his 1998 reporting on an unforgettable murder plot that inspired the 2011 Richard Linklater film ‘Bernie.’
Bernie
The Texanist
February 10, 2019
The Texanist: What Are the Ten Best Texas Movies?
A newcomer to the state is looking for a cinematic introduction to his adopted home.
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.
The Culture
January 21, 2013
Ranking Richard Linklater
To mark Bernie's release, Slate ranks the entire ouevre of Austin's top auteur. But did they get it right?
The Culture
January 21, 2013
SXSW Film: The “Bernie” Screening
Richard Linklater's newest movie received a rollicking hometown reception.
The Culture
January 21, 2013
Richard Linklater’s New Movie Trailer
Bernie, which is set in Carthage, opens nationwide on April 27 and stars Jack Black and Shirley MacLaine.
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.
Web Exclusive
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.
Editor's Letter
April 30, 2012
Primal Screen
Here is a partial list of the nice people Skip Hollandsworth has written about since he joined the magazine as a staff writer in 1989: Charles Albright, a serial killer in Dallas who removed his victims’ eyes; Marie Robards, a Fort Worth teenager who killed her father by poisoning
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.