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Five things you might not have guessed about Bernie Mac.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Five things you might not have guessed about Bernie Mac:
1. He's a fan of "Friends" and "Frasier." And his favorite show of all time is "Andy Griffith."
2. He used to make $400 to $500 a day performing his act on the streets of Chicago and on the El, eventually quitting "because I felt like a bum."
3. His sister's not really on drugs. The abandoned nieces and nephew he refers to in his act, which inspired "The Bernie Mac Show," aren't his: He borrowed the idea of them from a friend who was raising her sister's children. In real life, Mac and his wife, Rhonda, did take in her teen-age niece and the niece's baby daughter several years ago to save ...
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...Frozen. Like zombies. Looking up. Bernie Mac, Fox's latest pluck from the stand...the Holy Grail for black performers. Bernie Mac, still staring at that billboard but...white, mid-20s to mid-30s) about Bernie Mac, they'd probably respond, "Bernie...
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- Newspaper article from: South Florida Sun-Sentinel (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service) February 11, 2002 700+ words
Byline: Tom Jicha Tears made Bernie Mac a clown. The star of this season's...be theirs. His mother's tears tore Bernie Mac apart because he didn't know their...my mother will never cry again,' " Bernie Mac recalls. "I hate sadness." He's...
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