Please keep him in your prayers, I'm a big fan and hurt by this. Thanks

JACKSON, Miss. - Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman was injured in a car accident late Sunday night and is in a hospital in Memphis, Tenn.


Regional Medical Center spokeswoman Kathy Stringer said Freeman, 71, is in serious condition. The hospital is about 90 miles north of the accident scene in rural Tallahatchie County in the Mississippi Delta.

Mississippi Highway Patrol spokesman Sgt. Ben Williams confirmed Freeman was in a wreck shortly before midnight Sunday, but said he was still gathering information and had few details Monday.

Clay McFerrin, editor of Sun Sentinel in Charleston, said he arrived at the accident scene on Mississippi Highway 32 soon after it happened about 4 miles west of Charleston, not far from where Freeman owns a home with his wife.

McFerrin said it appeared that Freeman's car was airborne went it left the highway and landed in a ditch.

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

McFerrin said bystanders converged on the scene trying to get a glimpse of the actor.

When one person tried to snap a photo with a cell phone camera, Freeman joked, "no freebies, no freebies," McFerrin said.

The hospital where Freeman is being treated is commonly known as The Med, and is an acute-care teaching facility that serves patients within 150 miles of Memphis.

-taken from Yahoo.com

So strange--I was JUST, for some reason, thinking about Morgan Freeman last night (picturing him in "Bruce Almighty", as God, walking across the water!).  There aren't many actors I really love and respect, but he's definitely one of them...he can play any role well, and he has a sense of humor but also just somehow projects dignity all the time, no matter what the role.  It also sounds as if he's a "real", good person "in real life"--active in a lot of good causes.  Definitely someone I'd like to hang around with some time!

Anyway, I prayed for him as soon as I heard the news.  So far, it sounds as if he'll probably be OK.

Birds of a feather, FireRose   !

Doe

Just curious, if he was a bad actor, would you still hold him in regard?

Or if he weren't an actor, or "celebrity", at all?  I think so--probably more so, actually.

He seems to be an actor/celebrity who thinks about issues beyond his career, and does things about them, and puts some thought into living (just based on the very little I've read about him).

And I do respect talented (and he really is a damn fine actor) people who take their talents seriously and use them well.  Each of the roles I've seen him play has had an effect on the way I think about things, and I assume that he chooses most of his roles for reasons beyond fame and money.

I have respect for anyone, famous or not, who uses his time, energy, money (if he has it), etc. to do things for other people, or to advance causes he believes in.  Freeman is one of the few actors/celebrities left who also sees the benefit in using that celebrity to shed light on issues that might not be in the public mind (unfortunately) unless a "famous" person points out its significance.

Doe

Why more so? Thanks for responding btw.