Bernie Tiede,who was the real-life inspiration for the wonderful 2011 Richard Linklater film Bernie, has been sentenced to 99 years to life for killing Marjorie Nugent in 1996. Tiede, and a mortician,was portrayed with astonishing empathy (sensitivity to another's feelings as if they were one's own) by Jack Black (Roger Ebert notably campaigned tough for Black to earn an ... More ยป
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