Interview with ‘Bernie’ writer Skip Hollandsworth  Kieran
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Hollandsworth  A still from 'Bernie' starring Jack Black  Skip
Hollandsworth is a screenwriter, editor and journalist whose
1998 article Midnight in the Garden of East Texas became the
inspiration for Richard Linklater’s latest movie – the morbidly
comic docu-drama, Bernie.  The film focuses on the true story of
Bernie Tiede (played by Jack Black), an incredibly benevolent
small town mortician and philanthropist whose high regard in the
eyes of the people of Carthage is beyond reproach, even after he
confesses to the murder of an extremely wealthy 81-year-old
widow.  Despite Bernie’s obvious guilt, the District Attorney
requested a rare change of venue for his murder trial – as
Bernie was so generous and well liked in the community, no jury
was thought fair enough convict him. I spoke to Skip, who also
co-wrote the movie’s screenplay, about Bernie’s extraordinary
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