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Contributed photo Former Wichitan Skip Hollandsworth interviews one of the locals in "Bernie," a film he cowrote with director Richard Linklater.

Now the movie is out, and I'm pretty sure the screenplay was never finished. Etan Cohen is credited as the writer, although several other folks took passes at it.

Bernie, as everyone called him, took immense pride in his work, meticulously preparing and grooming corpses to ensure they looked their best to grieving relatives.

Jack Black stars as the title character in director Richard LinklaterA*s A'Bernie, which opens Friday at the Osio Cinema in Monterey.

Director Richard Linklater's film based on the real life story of Carthage resident Bernie Tiede will premiere in Kilgore at 4 Star Cinema on Thursday, May 31.

TYLER - Kimberly Cargill's second-oldest son continued his testimony in a Smith County courtroom Wednesday.

Ah, the Texas heartland, home to down-home American, and good old Christian family values.

At first blush, Bernie looks like the kind of mock-documentary perfected by Christopher Guest and his repertory company of improvisers - a finely etched regionalist portrait composed of equal parts affection and venomous satire.

Starring Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine, Matthew McConaughey. Directed by Richard Linklater.

Everyone in Carthage, Texas, loved assistant funeral director Bernie Tiede: church-choir soloist, junior college musical director, and generous to a fault.

Neither fish nor fowl, director Richard Linklater's hybrid whatzit takes a too-strange-not-to-be-true tale from the tabloids and fleshes it out halfway, relying on eyewitness testimony and documentary devices to fill in all the scenes that nobody probably felt like writing that day.

THE real stars of Richard Linklater's "Bernie" are, unquestionably, the townspeople of Carthage, Texas.

Living in Houston, any movie filmed, located, or based in the state of Texas is bound to get more recognition and appreciation than the average film.

A 15 year old East Texas murder case is resurfacing on the big screen. In 1996, Bernie Tiede shot and killed Marjorie Nugent, known as the richest woman in Carthage, Texas.

Shirley MacLaine and Jack Black in Bernie AP Photo Sun staff photos can be ordered by visiting our MyCapture site.

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It sounds like a tall Texas tale that's been turned into a movie. But this chilling story is fundamentally true.

T. Boone Pickens, talks about the outlook for consolidation in the energy industry and the use of hydraulic fracturing to extract natural gas from rock.