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Aug 3, 2008 2:21 pm US/Central

Bernie Mac Expected To Recover, Publicist Says

CHICAGO (Sun-Times Media Wire) ― Comedian Bernie Mac is "alive and in the same condition as yesterday," his publicist tells people.com.

According to Danica Smith, he is still alive and being treated in a Chicago hospital for pneumonia and is expected to make a full recovery.

"We once again ask that the press respect his privacy and that of his family," says Smith.

The actor-comedian (real name: Bernard Jeffery McCullough), 50, was hospitalized in Chicago for pneumonia, Smith told PEOPLE on Friday.

"Mr. Mac is responding well to treatment and will be released soon," she said in a statement. "He asked that his privacy and that of his family is respected while he gets well."

It was further stated that the pneumonia was not related to Mac's 2005 diagnosis of sarcoidosis, an autoimmune disease that causes inflammation in organs such as the lungs or lymph nodes.

His wife, Rhonda McCullough, has been with him at the hospital.

Mac's long list of television and film credits include "The Bernie Mac Show," "Ocean's 11," "Transformers," and "Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle."

(Source: Sun-Times Media Wire © Chicago Sun-Times 2009. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)

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