While Bernie Mac (real name: Bernard Jeffery McCullough) remains in a Chicago hospital with pneumonia, his publicist, Danica Smith, said in a statement that the 50-year-old actor/comedian is responding well to treatment and should be released soon.
The pneumonia is not related to an inflammatory lung disease known as sarcoidosis which causes inflammation in the lungs, lymph nodes and other organs. That condition has been in remission since 2005.
Most recently Mac made headlines when he attended a Barack Obama fundraiser and made a few lighthearted comments about the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. "I'm proud of him because politics is dirty, especially with Republicans," he said. "People like rumors. They are going to say things like, you know, 'You was in the club with Lil' Kim, and you and Kanye West got in a fistfight.' "
In addition to his appearance in last year's hit "Transformers," Mac has recently been working on the TV series "Starting Under," as well as several films, including the Samuel L. Jackson flick "Soul Men" (slated for release later this year) and the John Travolta comedy "Old Dogs," which is scheduled for a 2009 release.
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