SALTER – Freeman’s ‘help’ may backfire on Luckett
Democratic gubernatorial contender Bill Luckett’s status as a friend and business partner of Academy Award-winning actor and Mississippi treasure Morgan Freeman was supposed to have been Luckett’s political icebreaker.
Freeman’s reliable shoulder to the wheel for charity, higher education, conservation and the environment and a host of other good works have endeared him to Mississippians as much or more than his sizeable and significant acting repertoire.
Mississippians like and respect Freeman and appreciate the fact that he chose to live in Charleston and invest his time, talent and resources in his home state.
From his days as “Vincent the Vegetable Vampire” and “Easy Reader” on The Electric Company to his Oscar-nominated roles in Street Smart, Driving Miss Daisy and The Shawshank Redemption to his eventual 2004 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in Clint Eastwood’s Million Dollar Baby, Freeman has been embraced by his fellow Mississippians in roles as diverse as the president of the United States in Deep Impact and God in Bruce Almighty.
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The Clarion-Ledger
10/17/9
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