MORGAN FREEMAN IN CAR ACCIDENT
I hope he pulls through. He's a great actor. Plus...if he doesn't, all we'll be hearing about is a curse on The Dark Knight movie... Morgan Freeman hospitalized after car wreck (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. Milla Borden, spokeswoman for the Memphis Regional Medical Center, confirmed that Freeman was a patient at the hospital. 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." He's currently starring in two successful summer films, the hitman drama "Wanted" and the blockbuster "The Dark Knight." He recently starred on Broadway in a production of the Clifford Odets play "The Country Girl." Freeman was born in Memphis and spent part of his childhood in Mississippi. He owns a club, the Ground Zero Blues Club, in Clarksdale, Mississippi. In a 2005 interview with CNN, he said returning to the area was "one of the smar-*test*-('") moves I've made in life."

I heard. I really don't think I want to hear about another major actor dying this year. They said Morgan was conscious when they found him though, which is good.

:( :( Lets just hope he will recover and be back to his excellent self soon.

Incredible actor. Sounds like he'll be ok though, maybe out of action for a while, but at least he's still breathing.

This is a terrible story... One serious question comes to mind though: Why was Morgan Freeman driving a 1997 Nissan Maxima? I think this needs to be further investigated...

I've already been hearing about the curse of the Dark Knight....