Morgan Freeman And Christine Applegate In Hospital !
Hollywood actor Morgan Freeman seriously hurt in crash Dan Glaister guardian.co.uk, Monday August 04 2008 20:30 BST Actor Morgan Freeman, who most recently appeared in the Batman film The Dark Knight and won an Oscar for Million Dollar Baby. Photo: James Patterson/Getty The Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman said to be in a serious condition after the car he was driving flipped over several times late on Sunday. Freeman was driving near his home in Charleston, Mississippi, at the time of the accident. The actor and a female companion were cut free by emergency workers before being airlifted to a hospital 90 miles away in Memphis, Tennessee. Kathy Stringer, a spokeswoman for the regional medical centre in Memphis, described the 71-year-old actor's condition as "serious". The editor of the Charleston Sun Sentinel newspaper, who arrived at the scene shortly after the accident, said Freeman had been conscious and talking to rescuers. "They had to use the jaws of life to extract him from the vehicle," Clay McFerrin said. "He was lucid, conscious. He was talking, joking with some of the rescue workers at one point." His account was confirmed by state troopers, who added that Freeman's 1997 Nissan Maxima had apparently gone off the road. The actor overcorrected, causing the car to flip over several times before coming to a rest. Mississippi highway patrol sergeant Ben Williams told the Clarion-Ledger newspaper: "Both had some injuries, to what extent I do not know." LINK Christina Applegate Battling Cancer, Stricken At Age 36 ! The actress Christina Applegate, 36, who rose to fame playing the airhead daughter Kelly Bundy on “Married ... With Children” beginning in the late ’80s, has been told she has breast cancer and is expected to make a full recovery, the Associated Press reported. “Benefiting from early detection through a doctor-ordered MRI, the cancer is not life threatening,” Ms. Applegate’s publicist, Ame Van Iden, said in a statement released on Saturday. Ms. Applegate, above, has worked plenty since playing Kelly Bundy: she has been nominated for Emmy and Golden Globe awards for her role as the title character in the ABC comedy “Samantha Who?” and was nominated for a Tony in 2005 for her sole appearance so far on Broadway, as Charity Hope Valentine in “Sweet Charity.” She is scheduled to appear on “Stand Up to Cancer,” an hourlong fund-raising special on ABC, CBS and NBC on Sept. 5.