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Starring Jack Black, Matthew McConaughey and Shirley MacLaine, the film depicts the 1996 murder of an 82-year-old woman, Marjorie Nugent, in Carthage, Texas, by her 39-year-old companion, [2] Bernhardt "Bernie" Tiede.
Sep 12, 2023 · The basis of this tale comes from a 2001 piece of longform journalism by Skip Hollandsworth in Texas Monthly, which chronicles the workings of Johnson, who would disguise himself as various...
- Esther Zuckerman
Jun 7, 2024 · But Madison, the murdered husband, the drugged-and-murdered cop, the fairy tale rom-com romance… they're mostly fiction. Right at the end of Hollandsworth's article, he details the story of...
Jun 7, 2024 · That film, starring Jack Black as a folksy mortician convicted of murder, adapts an absurdist story and infuses it with Linklater's natural humanism and sharp commentary on Texas culture.
- Thomas Butt
- Glen Powell
- Richard Linklater
Jun 10, 2024 · Actor Glen Powell plays a fictional version of Gary Johnson, a Texas investigator who went undercover to help prosecutors with murder solicitation cases.
Aug 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...
Gary Johnson is the most sought-after professional killer in Houston. In the past decade, he's been hired to kill more than sixty people. But if you pay him to rub out a cheating spouse or an...
