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Crime, law and justice, and police blotter near Carthage, TX or anywhere in the US.
Recent Crime News
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Movie based on Wichita Falls native's script
Yesterday | via Times Record News
Contributed photo Former Wichitan Skip Hollandsworth interviews one of the locals in "Bernie," a film he cowrote with director Richard Linklater. Comment?
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Friday | via The Weekly Standard
It used to be relatively rare to hear a real-life story that proved the adage "truth is stranger than fiction" because there were so many details in scandalous true stories that couldn't be shared in polite society. Comment?
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Friday May 25 | via Metro Times
The Gipper giveth, state GOP taketh away Republicans find a tax break they don't like. Comment?
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Playing at the Pickford: Linklater's murder mystery ...
Friday May 25 | via Bellingham Herald
Shirley MacLaine as "Marjorie Nugent" and Jack Black as "Bernie Tiede" star in "Bernie," opening Friday, May 25, 2012, at the Pickford Film Center. Comment?
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Movie review: 'Bernie' is dark and compelling, featu...
Friday May 25 | via Examiner.com
To say that everybody loved Bernie Tiede - the title character in Bernie - would be a massive under-statement.A The flamboyant assistant funeral home director from the small town of Carthage, Texas was goodness personified...that is until he shot the wealthy 81 year-old widow Marjorie Nugent four times in the back. Comment?
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'Bernie': The most likeable murderer you'll ever meet
Friday May 25 | via The Miami Herald
The funny and beguiling "Bernie" recounts the curious case of Bernard Tiede , an assistant funeral director who became a pillar of the community in Carthage, Texas. Comment?
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Friday May 25 | via The News Tribune
The true crime story is a staple of TV and publishing, but only rarely inspires movies. Comment?
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Movie review: In 'Bernie,' Jack Black must tame his ...
Friday May 25 | via News Press
'Bernie' is a true-life crime story in which the crime itself takes a backseat to the people who tell us about it. Comment?
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Thursday May 24 | via Santa Cruz Sentinel
In 1998, Bernie Tiede, a beloved assistant funeral director with a beautiful voice and a kindly way of ushering the deceased of Carthage, Texas, to their eternal resting places, was tried for the murder of Marjorie Nugent. Comment?
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Monday May 21 | via Gilmer Mirror
From the film: Director Richard Linklater, Co-Screen Writer Skip Hollandsworth, locals in the film and real life prosecutor Danny Buck Davidson and Defense Attorney, Scrappy Holmes. Comment?
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Movie review: Grave work for actor Jack Black in gen...
Friday May 18 | via Denver Post
In 1998, Bernie Tiede, a beloved assistant funeral director with a beautiful voice and a kindly way of ushering the deceased of Carthage, Texas, to their eternal resting places, was tried for the murder of Marjorie Nugent. Comment?
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Friday May 18 | via Examiner.com
Kind, compassionate funeral director Bernie Tiede is one of the most well-known and well-respected citizens in the small town of Carthage, Texas. Comment?
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Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine mesh in 'Bernie'
Friday May 18 | via HeraldNet
The true crime story is a staple of TV and publishing but only rarely inspires movies. Comment?
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In Linklater's hands, truth is better than fiction
Friday May 18 | via The Miami Herald
The true crime story is a staple of TV and publishing but only rarely inspires movies. Comment?
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Bernie: Macabre comedy flirts with delicious moral a...
Thursday May 17 | via The Globe and Mail
Based on Skip Hollandsworth's colour-drenched 1998 Texas Monthly article, Richard Linklater's Bernie is a cheery macabre comedy about beloved small-town East Texas funeral director Bernie Tiede , who befriended but eventually murdered the despised wealthy widow Marjorie Nugent and confounded district attorney Danny Buck when the community rallied ... (more) Comment?
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Thursday May 17 | via SFBG Politics Blog
FILM When trial locations are moved, it is generally because the crime is so notorious, or the local populace so riled, that it is not expected the plaintiff can avoid a hostile jury. Comment?
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'Bernie' review: Richard Linklater's light and light...
Thursday May 17 | via The Oregonian
Based on a true story, filled with real people, and deftly mixing comedy, pathos and the macabre, "Bernie" is a delightful and compact confection from director Richard Linklater , who's just as good with a pair of unlikely costars as he is with the ordinary Texas townsfolk who populate the film. Comment?
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The mortician and the matron in 'Bernie'
Thursday May 17 | via Star Tribune
The true crime story is a staple of TV and publishing but only rarely inspires movies. Comment?
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Thursday May 17 | via AZCentral.com
"Bernie" is a true-life crime story in which the crime itself takes a backseat to the people who tell us about it. Comment?
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Apr 12, 2012 | via The Memphis Flyer
The shifty tonal ground where director/co-writer Richard Linklater has planted his new film Bernie is staked out in the opening scene. Comment?
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