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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: Bernie Mac

Bernie Mac stories: 8 news summaries
Movie Review

 Mac Gives Soul to Uneven Film 

Critics divided, but star wins them over

Nov 7, 08 3:53 PM CST
(Newser) - Soul Men is the cinematic swan song of both Bernie Mac and Isaac Hayes, and they undoubtedly deserve better, “given how easily it slips into conventionally vulgar and predictably crude” humor, writes John Anderson in Newsday. Still, get past the “old-man jokes, low-rent sex humor” and the... More »

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movie review • Samuel L. Jackson • Motown • Bernie Mac • Isaac Hayes

 Tears Fall, Jokes Fly
 at Mac Memorial

He's still the hottest ticket in town, Cedric the Entertainer jokes

Aug 16, 08 1:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - Thousands of fans showed up to honor Bernie Mac today in a memorial service on Chicago's South Side, the Chicago Tribune reports. “He’s still the hottest ticket in town,” said Cedric the Entertainer, who spoke with the rest of Mac’s “Original Kings of Comedy" team—... More »

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Jesse Jackson • celebrity • funeral • memorial service • Bernie Mac

 How Did Bernie Mac
Slip Away?

Lung disease, immune-suppressing meds were factors

Aug 10, 08 8:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - Suffering from a rare lung disease, Bernie Mac was on medication to suppress his immune system—and that that made him vulnerable to the pneumonia that ended his life, his sister-in-law told People. He was hospitalized 8 days earlier than reported with a fever and trouble breathing, and “was... More »

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immune system • death • illness • pneumonia • Bernie Mac

Appreciation

 'The World
 Just Got a
 Little Less 
 Funny'

Friends lament comedian's loss

Aug 9, 08 1:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - Hollywood has woken up to a world without Bernie Mac, who died early today from complications of pneumonia. Here’s what the stars who knew him are saying, reports E!:
  • George Clooney: “The world just got a little less funny. He will be missed dearly.”
  • Chris
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obituary • comedy • sarcoidosis • pneumonia • Bernie Mac

 Comedian Bernie 
 Mac Dies at 50

Standup comic moved on to film, TV

Aug 9, 08 9:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - Comedian and actor Bernie Mac has died at 50 of pneumonia after a week’s hospitalization in Chicago, the Chicago Tribune reports. Mac suffered from sarcoidosis, an unusual autoimmune disease that causes inflammation in the lungs. Born Bernard Jeffrey McCullough, the comedian was a late bloomer, achieving fame in his... More »

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television • film • comedy • stand up comedy • actor • Bernie Mac

 Mac's Illness
 Spotlights
 Sarcoidosis 

Immune disorder could be behind comedian's hospitalization

Aug 5, 08 2:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - Bernie Mac is in the hospital, and although his publicists deny it, the pneumonia for which the comedian's being treated may have something to do with sarcoidosis, the Chicago Tribune reports. The rare immune system disorder has been in remission since 2005. More »

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disease • immune system • sarcoidosis • lung disease • pollen • Bernie Mac • lymph nodes

 Bernie Mac
 Has Pneumonia

Reports of comedian's death untrue

Aug 4, 08 9:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - Comedian Bernie Mac is in “very, very critical” condition and in a Chicago hospital being treated for pneumonia, a family friend told the Chicago Sun-Times. But the 50-year-old’s publicist called reports of his death "a very horrible rumor" and said he'll be released soon. More »

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Chicago • celebrity • pneumonia • hospitalization • Bernie Mac

Bernie Mac's
Act Too Salty
for Obama

Comedian earns rebuke for his racy jokes at fundraiser

Jul 12, 08 4:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - Bernie Mac landed in hot water for making off-color jokes about women while introducing Barack Obama at a Chicago fundraiser yesterday, reports the Chicago Sun-Times. His last quip—which had the word "ho's" in it—drew complaints from a heckler. When Obama came on, he chided the comedian... More »

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Barack Obama • comedy • fundraiser • comedian • Bernie Mac • inappropriate comments

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