# Michael Clarke Duncan in Stable Condition After Heart Attack **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 16, 2012, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-clarke-duncan-in-stable-condition-after-heart-attack/628432 "2012-07-16T19:10:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2012, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-clarke-duncan-in-stable-condition-after-heart-attack/628432/1 "2012-07-16T19:10:42Z")
From the [Seattle Post Intelligencer](http://www.seattlepi.com/business/press-releases/article/Michael-Clarke-Duncan-Survives-Sudden-Cardiac-3707380.php): > [@](#): > > Michael Clarke Duncan, The well known actor in The Green Mile recently suffered a sudden cardiac arrest event. He is 54 years old. According to TMZ, Omarosa, who is most know from the popular TV show The Apprentice, called 911 immediately after she discovered him collapsed at 2 a.m. > > Before the ambulance was able to arrive, Omarosa performed CPR. ---
**Author:** ![awldune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@awldune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/awldune)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2012, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-clarke-duncan-in-stable-condition-after-heart-attack/628432/2 "2012-07-16T19:15:01Z")
I was thinking he was really young to have a heart attack. Had no idea he was in his 50’s. ---
**Author:** ![LurkerInNJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ed655f/32.png) [@LurkerInNJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkerInNJ)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2012, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-clarke-duncan-in-stable-condition-after-heart-attack/628432/3 "2012-07-17T19:37:31Z")
Omarosa? Ewww. ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2012, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-clarke-duncan-in-stable-condition-after-heart-attack/628432/4 "2012-07-17T20:12:27Z")
Are him and Omarosa an item or something? ---
**Author:** ![ministryman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@ministryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ministryman)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2012, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-clarke-duncan-in-stable-condition-after-heart-attack/628432/5 "2012-07-17T20:13:30Z")
> [@Kimballkid](#): > > Are him and Omarosa an item or something? Double Ewwwww ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2012, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-clarke-duncan-in-stable-condition-after-heart-attack/628432/6 "2012-07-17T21:38:56Z")
Let’s get The Finder to work on finding him a new ticker. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2012, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-clarke-duncan-in-stable-condition-after-heart-attack/628432/7 "2012-07-18T02:18:23Z")
For some reason I thought he was a lot taller than 6’4/6’5 (depending on which version you go with). I suppose it’s because John Coffey was a giant; he’s “only” the same height as Tyler Perry. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2012, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-clarke-duncan-in-stable-condition-after-heart-attack/628432/8 "2012-07-18T02:33:07Z")
Well that was an unexpected Omarosa reference. According to Wikipedia, she met him at Whole Foods. For those annotating, that doesn’t count as a cite. ---
**Author:** ![dnooman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@dnooman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dnooman)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2012, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-clarke-duncan-in-stable-condition-after-heart-attack/628432/9 "2012-07-18T05:59:01Z")
> [@ministryman](#): > > Double Ewwwww Can’t she cause cardiac arrest by just being in a room with someone? I hear she saved him, but if I woke up to her face, I would die again thinking I was in Hell. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2012, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-clarke-duncan-in-stable-condition-after-heart-attack/628432/10 "2012-07-18T06:54:40Z")
> [@dnooman](#): > > Can’t she cause cardiac arrest by just being in a room with someone? I hear she saved him, but if I woke up to her face, I would die again thinking I was in Hell. I’m wondering if she saw him on the floor while violating a restraining order about stalking him. If so, at least she called 911. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2012, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-clarke-duncan-in-stable-condition-after-heart-attack/628432/11 "2012-07-18T09:11:49Z")
All jokes aside, apparently, yes, she is his girlfriend. ---
**Author:** ![palacheck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a88e57/32.png) [@palacheck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/palacheck)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2012, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-clarke-duncan-in-stable-condition-after-heart-attack/628432/12 "2012-07-18T10:10:51Z")
This gets me to thinking that I don’t think I’ve ever met a really tall guy(6’5"+) who was over the age of 70. I know they exist, but I just don’t recall ever meeting any… ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2012, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-clarke-duncan-in-stable-condition-after-heart-attack/628432/13 "2012-07-18T10:46:58Z")
> [@palacheck](#): > > This gets me to thinking that I don’t think I’ve ever met a really tall guy(6’5"+) who was over the age of 70. I know they exist, but I just don’t recall ever meeting any… They shrink. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2012, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-clarke-duncan-in-stable-condition-after-heart-attack/628432/14 "2012-07-18T13:01:48Z")
> [@palacheck](#): > > This gets me to thinking that I don’t think I’ve ever met a really tall guy(6’5"+) who was over the age of 70. I know they exist, but I just don’t recall ever meeting any… [My question about this from a while back.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=532569) ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2012, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-clarke-duncan-in-stable-condition-after-heart-attack/628432/15 "2012-07-18T23:04:20Z")
> [@palacheck](#): > > This gets me to thinking that I don’t think I’ve ever met a really tall guy(6’5"+) who was over the age of 70. I know they exist, but I just don’t recall ever meeting any… Christopher Lee used to be 6’5. He’s now about 6’3 due to geriatric shrinkage (which I’m sure is not the technical term, but…). This was from an article written a few years back when _LOTR_ and the Star Wars prequels were big, so now that he’s 90 he might be a bit shorter. One of the few historical ‘bonafide giants’ who attained old age was [Martin Van Buren Bates](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Van_Buren_Bates); accounts vary to his height, but somewhere between 7’6 and 7’11 seems to be the best guess. He lived into his early 80s. His first wife, Anna Swan, was around 7’5 and died in her early 40s. They had two children who weighed 18 lbs. and 23 lbs. at birth respectively, but both died in infancy. Bates’s second wife was normal sized.