Morgan Freeman hospitalized in serious condition after car accident

[Willo]

(CNN) -- Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman was in serious condition at a Memphis hospital after being involved in a car accident Sunday night, according to hospital officials.


Morgan Freeman was in serious condition after a car accident Sunday night.

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CNN affilliate WMC of Memphis reported that he was in a car accident in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi, about 100 miles south of Memphis, late Sunday. According to The Associated Press, Freeman was "lucid" when the rescue team found his car.

"They had to use the jaws of life to extract him from the vehicle," Clay McFerrin, editor of Sun Sentinel in Charleston, Mississippi, said. "He was lucid, conscious. He was talking, joking with some of the rescue workers at one point."

McFerrin, who told the AP he arrived at the accident scene not long after the incident, said bystanders were trying to get a look at the actor. When one person tried to snap a photo with a cell phone camera, Freeman joked, "no freebies, no freebies," McFerrin told the AP.

Freeman, 71, won an Academy Award for best supporting actor in 2005 for his role in the gritty boxing film "Million Dollar Baby." He has been nominated for Oscars three other times, for the movies "Street Smart," "Driving Miss Daisy" and "The Shawshank Redemption."

http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Movies/08/04/morgan.freeman.accident/index.html

[tridim]

1. Damn. And I just watched Shawshank again yesterday.

Get busy livin' Morgan.

[nsd]

2. Why is this posted here?

[Willo]

5. Did you miss this post?

Or is that too presidential?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x6584344

[arcos]

3. Is Morgan Freeman running for President? nt

[Willo]

6. How about you?

Was this over the top?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x6584344

[arcos]

9. That's actually related to the Presidential campaign I guess...

Morgan Freeman is not, though.

:shrug:

[DevonRex]

4. Thanks for posting this. That's not far from where I grew up. nt

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

7. Does anyone have any updated news? He's one of my favorite actors

Does anyone remember when he was on the Electric Company? Or, am I showing my age?

[Willo]

8. Six degrees of separation - for the hall monitors

Morgan Freeman supports Barack Obama

Morgan Freeman stars in Batman

The Wall street Journal ran an article "What Bush and Batman have in Common"

Morgan Freeman is 71 years old, McCain is 71 years old.