Texas Monthly
Executive editor for Texas Monthly magazine, and co-author of the screenplay for the 2011 film Bernie
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Skip Hollandsworth
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FROM Skip Hollandsworth
Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Releasing Bernie Here’s a story that’s stranger than fiction… Bernie Tiede, a murderer played by Jack Black a few years ago in the Richard Linklater film Bernie , has been released from prison. In 1996, Tiede confessed to shooting a reclusive widow named Marjorie Nugent in the small East Texas town of Carthage. Linklater turned the story into a movie released in 2011. Now, Tiede has been released, under a few conditions, including a stipulation that he’ll live in Linklater’s garage apartment in Austin. How did this happen?
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