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Suburban Madness
''Suburban Madness'' is an American crime drama television film, based on a true story of the Murder of David Lynn Harris, starring Sela Ward as PI Bobbi Bacha of Blue Moon Investigations. It aired on CBS on October 3, 2004. Background The filmmakers had read about the Clara Harris case in a ''Texas Monthly'' magazine article. Ward said the movie would present that story less as a true crime case than a "broader picture about marriage in America today." She based her character on a private investigator she met before filming started. Several critics situated the film amid a broader trend of movies and television series about suburban crime and dysfunction, such as the recently released show ''Desperate Housewives'' and TV movie '' Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman''. Plot ''Suburban Madness'' is loosely based on the true story of 44-year-old Clara Harris, a successful Texas dentist and mother of young twins, who hired private investigator Bobbi Bacha, played by actress Sela Wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skip Hollandsworth
Walter Ned "Skip" Hollandsworth is an American writer, journalist, screenwriter, and executive editor for ''Texas Monthly'' magazine. In 2010, he won the National Magazine Award for Feature Writing from the American Society of Magazine Editors, for "Still Life", the story of John McClamrock. His true crime history, '' The Midnight Assassin'', about a series of murders attributed to the Servant Girl Annihilator that took place in Austin, Texas, in 1885, was published in April 2016 by Henry Holt and Company. Hollandsworth co-wrote the Richard Linklater movie '' Bernie'' (2011), a low-budget, black comedy film based on his own 1998 article in ''Texas Monthly'', titled "Midnight in the Garden of East Texas". Starring Jack Black, Matthew McConaughey and Shirley MacLaine, the film depicts the 1996 murder of an 82-year-old woman, Marjorie Nugent, in Carthage, Texas, by her 39-year-old companion, Bernhardt "Bernie" Tiede. Early life Hollandsworth was born in Kannapolis, North Caroli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |