Era o tio durão de três miúdos (uma adolescente, um rapaz e uma menina pequena), que falava com o público em tom de desabafo sobre o seu quotidiano atribulado. O papel valeu-lhe duas nomeações para os Emmys e, apesar de não ter sido distinguido com o prémio, revolucionou o conceito de sitcom familiar durante as cinco temporadas do seu programa (2001-2006).
Chegou tarde ao showbusiness e a sua carreira durou pouco mais de 15 anos. Aos 50, Bernie Mac fechou as portas à comédia e, hoje, temos menos um motivo para rir.
A notícia
Bernie Mac, Comic From TV and Film, Is Dead at 50
Bernie Mac, a stand-up comic who played evil-tongued but lovable rogues in films like “Bad Santa” and “Mr. 3000” and combined menace and sentiment as a reluctant foster father on “The Bernie Mac Show” on Fox, died on Saturday in Chicago. He was 50 and lived near the city.
The cause was complications from pneumonia, his publicist, Danica Smith, said.Mr. Mac, an angry stage presence with a line of scabrous insults, parlayed his success as a stand-up comedian onto the big screen in a string of comedies that usually cast him as wily con men like Pastor Clever in “Friday” (1995) and Gin, the store detective in “Bad Santa” (2003). He also excelled playing short-tempered misanthropes, notably in his starring role as Stan Ross, the nation’s most hated baseball player, in “Mr. 3000” (2004).
in The New York Times - Television
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