![]() Marcia is a multimedia content producer focusing on technology at Black Enterprise Magazine. Mac has starred in some of Hollywood’s top performing movies with A-list actors including the Ocean‘s series which starred academy nominated actor Don Cheadle, Brad Pitt, and George Clooney. “Bernie would want to be remembered as a great father and a great husband,†says Harvey. Many will remember him as a television father figure, but not too many knew that Mac had been married to the same woman, Rhonda McCullough, for 25 years. The show, which some said transcended race and class, garnered Golden Globe and Emmy nominations for Mac, who grew up in an impoverished neighborhood on Chicago’s Southside. ![]() The highly acclaimed The Bernie Mac Show, a Fox television series about a man’s adventures raising his sister’s three children, aired more than 100 episodes from 2001 to 2006. “Bernie is a brother who would forge through a lot of hardships. Harvey says the news of Mac’s death “knocked the air out of him†and “flattened him.†Bernie is not a replaceable guy,†said Harvey describing Mac’s comedy as “explosive.†Harvey says the others considered continuing without him, but those thoughts didn’t last long. Recently talks had surfaced about doing another Kings of Comedy tour, but Bernie’s people said that he didn’t feel like touring.
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