Bernie Macs Dead!?

[redragon74]

my freind just send me a message on aim and so far theres 3 posts on IMDB of his death
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005170/news#ni0548431

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Bernie Mac dies, aged 50
9 August 2008 7:42 AM, PDT | From Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news

Bernie Mac has died in hospital at the age of 50, it has been confirmed. The Us actor and comedian had been admitted to hospital in Chicago, Illinois, last week to receive treatment for pneumonia. In a statement, his publicist Danica Smith said: "Bernie Mac passed away this morning from complications due to pneumonia in a Chicago area hospital." She added that no other details were available and requested privacy for his family. Mac started his stand-up comedy career at an early age, but is also well known for his successful acting career. (more)

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Bernie Mac Has Died
9 August 2008 7:27 AM, PDT | From Filmonic.com | See recent Filmonic news

Comedian and actor Bernie Mac, known for his roles in Transformers, Charlies Angels: Full Throttle and The Bernie Mac Show, has died at the age of 50. He was admitted to hospital in Chicago last week and died early on Saturday morning due to complications arising from pneumonia, his publicist said. Damica Taylor said no other details [...]

Liam


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Comedian Bernie Mac Dies at 50
9 August 2008 7:00 AM, PDT | From PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news

Bernie Mac, who for the past 30 years made the public laugh thanks to an over-sized comic persona as captured on the small and large screen as well as on stages small and large, died Saturday morning. He was 50. "[He] passed away this morning from complications due to pneumonia in a Chicago area hospital," his rep, Danica Smith, told People. "No other details are available at this time. We ask that his family's privacy continues to be respected." On Aug 1, Mac was admitted to a hospital at Northwestern Memorial hospital with pneumonia said his rep, adding that he was expected to recover,

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Stephen M. Silverman


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sad day man..funny man

 

[RadioactiveMicrobe]

Does it seems that a lot of cool people are 'suddenly' dying this year? Is it just bad luck, or is it a conspiracy?! Either way, 2008 is not the best time to "shine in the spotlight"

 

[redragon74]

no its not

but its weird i herd about it and ran to my tv trying to find out more info cause all i could find was rumours not tru but dated on the 2nd and nobody is reporting about it

 

[TexasAggie2011]

Well it is true. It's in the Chicago tribune:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainmen...,0,995933.story

Comedian and Chicago native Bernie Mac died early Saturday morning from complications due to pneumonia, his publicist confirmed.

Mac, 50, had been hospitalized for about a week at Northwestern Hospital, according to his spokeswoman. A few years ago, Mac disclosed that he suffered from sarcoidosis, a rare autoimmune disease that causes inflammation in tissue, most often in the lungs.

The comic born Bernard Jeffrey McCullough could cut an imposing figure. He stood 6-foot-3, was built like a fullback and carried himself with a bouncer's reticence. But perhaps the strongest weapon in the Chicago comedian's arsenal was that voice, that amalgam of thought and a delivery that could rise like a tidal wave, outpace a Gatling gun and remained, to his last days, loud and unapologetic.

He wasn't scared, he told us time and again, to tell anyone what he thought, to say what others were afraid to say. That fearlessness wasn't always welcome, considering Mac didn't get his big break until his 30s. But when he did, the comic skyrocketed to success in stand-up, television and the big screen.

 

[xalener]

Why the hell is everyone dying EARLY this year?

 

[rvb4life]

Yeah, a lot of famous people are dying this year. this is very unfortunate, i liked bernie mac's acting, he was one funny dude.

maybe this is a clue that the end of the world is NIGH!!! or maybe not.

 

[link4044]

sux, read about it on the yahoo news

 

[CPU64]

People are dropping like flies recently..

Heith Ledger - dead
Bernie Mac - dead
Morgan Freeman - bad accident
Christina Applegate - cancer (Her boyfriend -dead)
Ruslana Korshunova - dead (model jumped off balcony at 20)
George Carlin - dead
Cameron Diaz's dad - dead..

 

[abandonship]

Why the Mac? Why the Mac?

 

[Gearsofhalo]

poor man he will be sorley missed

 

[Dreadnought]

The Deathrate is increasing! Its all for 2012! The end is near! WE ARE ALLLLL GONNA DIE!!!!!!!!

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Yea....

I never liked his comedy too too much, though he was a good actor.

Just hope that the next is Uwe Boll

 

[redragon74]

the guy who played Chef on southpark just died TO!!!
http://www.yahoo.com/s/932445

Isaac hayes

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Isaac Hayes, the baldheaded, baritone-voiced soul crooner who laid the groundwork for disco and whose "Theme From Shaft" won both Academy and Grammy awards, died Sunday afternoon after he collapsed near a treadmill, authorities said. He was 65.

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Hayes was pronounced dead at Baptist East Hospital in Memphis an hour after he was found by a family member, the Shelby County Sheriff's Office said. The cause of death was not immediately known.

With his muscular build, shiny head and sunglasses, Hayes cut a striking figure at a time when most of his contemporaries were sporting Afros. His music, which came to be known as urban-contemporary, paved the way for disco as well as romantic crooners like Barry White.

And in his spoken-word introductions and interludes, Hayes was essentially rapping before there was rap. His career hit another high in 1997 when he became the voice of Chef, the sensible school cook and devoted ladies man on the animated TV show "South Park."

"Isaac Hayes embodies everything that's soul music," Collin Stanback, an A&R executive at Stax, told The Associated Press on Sunday. "When you think of soul music you think of Isaac Hayes — the expression ... the sound and the creativity that goes along with it."

Hayes was about to begin work on a new album for Stax, the soul record label he helped build to legendary status. And he had recently finished work on a movie called "Soul Men" in which he played himself, starring Samuel Jackson and Bernie Mac, who died on Saturday.

Steve Shular, a spokesman for the sheriff's office, said authorities received a 911 call after Hayes' wife and young son and his wife's cousin returned home from the grocery store and found him collapsed in a downstairs bedroom. A sheriff's deputy administered CPR until paramedics arrived.

"The treadmill was running but he was unresponsive lying on the floor," Shular said.

The album "Hot Buttered Soul" made Hayes a star in 1969. His shaven head, gold chains and sunglasses gave him a compelling visual image.

"Hot Buttered Soul" was groundbreaking in several ways: He sang in a "cool" style unlike the usual histrionics of big-time soul singers. He prefaced the song with "raps," and the numbers ran longer than three minutes with lush arrangements.

"Jocks would play it at night," Hayes recalled in a 1999 Associated Press interview. "They could go to the bathroom, they could get a sandwich, or whatever."

Next came "Theme From Shaft," a No. 1 hit in 1971 from the film "Shaft" starring Richard Roundtree.

"That was like the shot heard round the world," Hayes said in the 1999 interview.

At the Oscar ceremony in 1972, Hayes performed the song wearing an eye-popping amount of gold and received a standing ovation. TV Guide later chose it as No. 18 in its list of television's 25 most memorable moments. He won an Academy Award for the song and was nominated for another one for the score. The song and score also won him two Grammys.

"The rappers have gone in and created a lot of hit music based upon my influence," he said. "And they'll tell you if you ask."

Hayes was elected to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002.

"I knew nothing about the business, or trends and things like that," he said. "I think it was a matter of timing. I didn't know what was unfolding."

A self-taught musician, he was hired in 1964 by Stax Records of Memphis as a backup pianist, working as a session musician for Otis Redding and others. He also played saxophone.

He began writing songs, establishing a songwriting partnership with David Porter, and in the 1960s they wrote such hits for Sam and Dave as "Hold On, I'm Coming" and "Soul Man."

All this led to his recording contract.

In 1972, he won another Grammy for his album "Black Moses" and earned a nickname he reluctantly embraced. Hayes composed film scores for "Tough Guys" and "Truck Turner" besides "Shaft." He also did the song "Two Cool Guys" on the "Beavis and Butt-Head Do America" movie soundtrack in 1996. Additionally, he was the voice of Nickelodeon's "Nick at Nite" and had radio shows in New York City (1996 to 2002) and then in Memphis.

He was in several movies, including "It Could Happen to You" with Nicolas Cage, "Ninth Street" with Martin Sheen, "Reindeer Games" starring Ben Affleck and the blaxploitation parody "I'm Gonna Git You, Sucka."

In the 1999 interview, Hayes described the South Park cook as "a person that speaks his mind; he's sensitive enough to care for children; he's wise enough to not be put into the 'wack' category like everybody else in town — and he l-o-o-o-o-ves the ladies."

But Hayes angrily quit the show in 2006 after an episode mocked his Scientology religion.

"There is a place in this world for satire," he said. "but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry toward religious beliefs of others begins."

Co-creator creators Matt Stone responded that Hayes "has no problem — and he's cashed plenty of checks — with our show making fun of Christians." A subsequent episode of the show seemingly killed off the Chef character.

Hayes was born in 1942 in a tin shack in Covington, Tenn., about 40 miles north of Memphis. He was raised by his maternal grandparents after his mother died and his father took off when he was 1 1/2. The family moved to Memphis when he was 6.

Hayes wanted to be a doctor, but got redirected when he won a talent contest in ninth grade by singing Nat King Cole's "Looking Back."

He held down various low-paying jobs, including shining shoes on the legendary Beale Street in Memphis. He also played gigs in rural Southern juke joints where at times he had to hit the floor because someone began shooting.

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[odst26]

i heard it on the radio

 

[TexasAggie2011]

jeeze! everyones dropping like flies! and if it can get Shaft, AIN'T NO ONE SAFE!

 

[GruntOfAction]

Ironicly enough there was a movie coming out called Soul Men staring Bernie Mac, Issac Hayes, and Samuel L Jackson..

Two of the three stars have already died within a day of eachother, people are hoping Samuel doesn't follow the death trend..

 

[redragon74]

samuel l jackson eats death for breakfast....