BREAKING NEWS: COMEDIAN BERNIE MAC DIES AT 50Comedian Bernie Mac died early Saturday morning in a Chicago-area hospital because of complications due to pneumonia. He was 50.
His publicist, Danica Smith, did not provide more details to CNN.
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Mac was admitted to the hospital for pneumonia on August 1, but his rep said then he was expected to make a full recovery after a few weeks of treatment.
The Golden Globe nominated actor - who appeared alongside Brad Pitt in Ocean's 13 - also battled sarcoidosis, a lung disease, for two decades. In 2005, he announced that it'd gone in to remission. Usmagazine |
