After securing boats to the pier, bernie was ordered by chatham station commanding officer cluff to. Jack black stars, but this isnt one of his mainstream comedies. The film stars jack black, shirley maclaine and matthew mcconaughey. Bernie movie leads to bernies freedom the texas tribune. She had a hunch there was more to the story, and like. The true story reveals that bernie webbers girlfriend miriam proposed to him after just a few months of dating.
The murder is the subject of the 2011 critically acclaimed film bernie, directed. The east texas man, who the new movie bernie is named after, says he meet some alist celebrities when they visited him in prison. The movie was based on the true story of bernie tiede, who was accused of killing marjorie nugent in 1996. Based on a true story, bernie is one of the surprise movies of the year. Story behind the real murder of a small town widow that inspired latest jack black movie. Bernie is a oneofakind movie that establishes its own tone, walking a thin line between seriousness and absurdity. My grandmother was an 80yearold wealthy widow in carthage when tiede shot and killed her in 1996.
Casting jack black in the title role of this 2012 dark comedy turns out to be a masterstroke on the part of director and coscreenwriter richard linklater because the reallife character of bernie tiede is a comically ambiguous figure not only sexually but more to the point, as a jovial childman personality beloved by his small texas town of carthage while at the. Man who inspired film bernie sent back to prison by jury bernie tiede, 57, was a mortician at the hawthorn funeral home in carthage, texas. He said no, but i did see him in person at his trial. Kltv went to new boston, about 100 miles north of carthage. Noah has protested again and again in interviews promoting marriage. Bernie tells the story of assistant funeral home director bernie tiede, whos known around the small town of carthage, texas, for his skills at making the deceased look natural, beautiful singing voice and kindness to elderly widows. In richard linklaters latest film, jack black plays a gay mortician that befriends a wealthy widow at her husbands funeral, shoots her in the.
Everybody loves bernie, and he loves them back by showering them with attention and expensive gifts. Although this is a true story of a real murder although not premeditated, the writers still were able to make a very humorous film garnering sympathy for the accused, bernie tiede. If you want to see bernie with no idea of its subject matter, read no further. Even though now i can see i made some glaring errors in writing, i was learning and these definitely helped me improve my skills. While this is certainly upsetting on its own, the murder is not the most shocking part. Miriam was the telephone operator who put the call through, but apparently not before having a brief conversation with bernie. Parents need to know that bernie is an eccentric, entertaining, and sometimes disturbing dark comedy based on the reallife murder of wealthy texas widow marjorie nugent shirley maclaine. Killer texas mortician who inspired dark comedy bernie.
The killer texas mortician whose murder case inspired the movie bernie was sentenced to 99 years to life in prison friday two years after he was. The murder is the subject of the 2011 critically acclaimed film bernie, directed by richard linklater and starring jack black as tiede. Story behind the real murder of a small town widow that. Two decades after killing marjorie nugent, bernie tiede was sentenced this. Amazing real life story behind new film bernie by victims nephew. Reallife killer behind bernie gets early release, will live in. But his real name was bernard jeffery mccullough born october 5, 1957 as the second child of mary mccullough and jeffery harrison, who had already made their life transition. The true story behind marriage story noah baumbach divorce.
Convicted murder bernie tiede, whose sensational story served as the basis for richard linklaters 2012 film bernie, starring jack black, has. Jack black bernie gives an oscar worthy performance in this based on a true story movie. It is based on a 1998 texas monthly magazine article by hollandsworth, midnight in the garden of east texas. Bernie tiedes story is factual, based on a celebrated texas monthly article titled midnight in the garden of east texas by skip hollandsworth.
The story was based on real events, and real townspeople who knew the real bernie were used for extrascharacters, and some were so good that it was clear that they could have been real actors if they had chosen that direction instead of staying in carthage, tx and knowing the real bernie. Bernie is hired as a morticians assistant in a small town in texas. Bernie tiede lost in the courts again thursday, but he isnt giving up. Bernie hides the body, but, as is the case with such things, the chickens eventually come home to roost. Story behind the real murder of a small town widow. In hollandsworths version of the storywhich became the basis for the film starring jack black, shirley maclaine and matthew mcconaugheya lovable fellow named bernie tiede moves to carthage, texas and begins working at a local funeral parlor. The real bloom began getting nervous about toting around so much money between games and hired a driver for security reasons. Linklaters varied directorial career is a blackaspitch comedy drawn from a reallife story. Rather, it is concerned with the real life story of bernie tiedejack black, an assistant funeral director in carthage, tx who goes the extra mile in his job. Bernie, the dark comedy inspired by tiedes case, starred jack black, who portrayed tiede as a quirky, friendly man who sang in the church choir, helped local residents start businesses and was. Matthew mcconaughey began his climb from hunky background candy to artist in this movie where he disappeared into a role as an ambitious prosecuting attorney. A texas widow worth millions found dead in a freezer, her companion, a mortician 40 years her junior, charged with murder it was a story right out of the. He taught sunday school, sang in the church choir and was. More than 15 years ago, bernie tiede shot 81yearold marjorie nugent in the back four times and stuffed her body inside the freezer at her carthage, texas, home.
Man who inspired film bernie sent back to prison by jury. Bernie tiede released from prison, will live with bernie director richard linklater. I just snapped, bernie tiede speaks out from prison. It tells the story of bernies life with marjorie nugent and the murder that sent him to prison. Mortician who inspired bernie movie sent back to prison for widows murder hes been resentenced in the 1999 murder of 81yearold marjorie nugent. Bernie taupin talks one rocketman moment that happened in real life. Bernie tiede released from prison, will live with bernie. Tiede a smalltown east texas mortician whose crime prompted a hollywood movie has already been sentenced twice in.
To audition, you had to be from either texas or louisiana or they did. The movie doesnt glamorize bernies contradictory behavior. Hunger games movie prequel the ballad of songbirds and snakes is officially in the works the. And that is where the original hollandsworth story and the movie end. Bernie madoff is a former stockbroker who ran his multibilliondollar firm as a grandscale ponzi scheme. The case became famous thanks to a 2011 movie, bernie, directed by richard linklater. Bernie tiede opens up about his jailhouse visits with jack. East texas killer bernie tiede, who inspired the movie bernie, is released from prison after another twist in his strange tale. In the truth is stranger than fiction category, we can include the true story behind the new movie, bernie, a dark comedy. He found a pay phone and called the girl to explain what had happened. The true story of an east texas murder johnston tobey. In may 2012 i wrote a cover story for texas monthly about the making of linklaters movie. Bernie macs story to his fans and a world that adored him, he was comedian bernie mac.
Bernie taupin talks one rocketman moment that happened in. The first four mira jade stories were my first stories, i look back on them fondly. More see chris pine as a coast guard captain in trailer for disneys the finest hours. Director richard linklater was asked by jack black if he ever met bernie tiede before.
Dallas reuters a jury on friday sentenced a former mortician to return to prison for 99 years to life for murdering a wealthy east texas widow and hiding her body in a freezer in a case that inspired the 2011 film bernie. Theres more to our story than what the movie bernie shows. Most people familiar with the name bernie webber associate him with the miraculous rescue of 32 men off of the stern of the pendleton, made famous in the book and movie the finest hours. In the film, bernie was portrayed as a sweet man who was beloved in the small texas town of carthage, while. Truth is stranger than fiction in bernie melissa block talks with skip hollandsworth about bernie a new film he cowrote with richard linklater. Mortician who inspired bernie movie sent back to prison. Fan demand and the fact that i came up with a good story idea, made me write the fifth story, and there may be a sixth someday. Bernhardt bernie tiede ii is an american mortician and convicted murderer.
That is the real story, alexandria nugent affirmed. Murderer bernie tiede denied new trial by appeals court. Man who inspired film bernie sent back to prison by jury nbc 5. People remember him tiede as being real nice and doing nice things, and. Nugent, apparently a prince of a fellow, owned the local bank. Tiede was still locked up and awaiting trial when my original story was. Tiede confessed to the shooting of a wealthy 80yearold widow, marjorie marge nugent, in carthage, texas on november 19, 1996. Its perfectly executed with a captivating, understated performance by jack black as bernie. Yes, but in researching the finest hours true story, we discovered that unlike the movie, they were already married at the time of the pendleton rescue. The new film bernie is a dark comedy that stars jack black as bernie tiede a smalltown. The true story behind marriage story explains why the movie feels painfully real. Tiede, originally given life in prison, had been incarcerated nearly 16 years when he was temporarily freed in 2014 after his original prosecutor. The real bernie webber met miriam pentinen over the telephone in 1950.
His car had broken down when he was on his way to meet a girl for a date. Rescuing 32 sailors from a sinking ship caught in a ferocious winter storm is a dramatic tale, but what made this mission so special is that the boat bernie skippered that terrible night was a. In the tiny town of carthage, tx, assistant funeral director bernie tiede jack black was one of the towns most beloved residents. Casting jack black in the title role of this 2012 dark comedy turns out to be a masterstroke on the part of director and coscreenwriter richard linklater because the reallife character of bernie tiede is a comically ambiguous figure not only sexually but more to the point, as a jovial childman personality beloved by his small texas town of carthage while at the same time, strangely insistent in his constant presence in their lives. Some local faces pop up in bernie, the jack blackshirley maclaine movie comedy that is a breakout hit at the box office. Bernies story is told with a mix of seriousness and levity, a tone that may be hard for tweens and under to. On november 19, 1996, bernie tiede confessed to the murder of marjorie marg nugent in her carthage, texas home in 1995. Her only son, rod nugent, was none too pleased with the comedys.
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