Barry Michael Cooper, a screenwriter best known for his work in New Jack City and Above the Rim, died on Wednesday, Jan. 22. He was 66. According to Variety, Cooper's death was confirmed by a ...
There is no discussion of 1990s-era Black movies without films written by Barry Michael Cooper ... City,” “Sugar Hill,” and “Above The Rim.” Cooper, who moved to Baltimore in the ...
Matthew Cooper, Son of Barry Michael Cooper NEW YORK ... Best known for penning the Harlem Trilogy films—New Jack City, Sugar Hill, and Above the Rim—Cooper’s storytelling illuminated the complexities ...
Barry Michael Cooper ... and Tupac (Above the Rim.) Though he lived much of the last decades of his life in Baltimore, he was Harlem to his core." Michael A. Gonzales, who co-wrote the important ...
How Barry Michael Cooper Defined the ‘90s Harlem Trilogy Cooper didn’t stop with New Jack City. He went on to complete his “Harlem trilogy” with Sugar Hill and Above the Rim, both released in 1994.
Barry Michael Cooper ... establishing Cooper as a prominent voice in Hollywood. Another landmark film in Cooper’s career was “Above The Rim,” featuring the late Tupac Shakur.
Barry Michael Cooper ... When I connected with Cooper by phone last year for a story I was doing for the 30th anniversary of the “Above the Rim” soundtrack, I was humbled to find him more ...
What Carter did 25 years ago during a rain-soaked weekend in the Bay looked like, and felt like, the apogee of the ...
Barry Michael Cooper He was best known for his films New Jack City, Sugar Hill, and Above the Rim. Cooper was also known for the TV Series She’s Gotta Have It based on the Spike Lee film.
“It is almost midnight in Harlem,” Barry Michael ... Hill” (1993), and “Above the Rim” (1994). Harlem was the location for the films, and as George related, Cooper was an embodiment ...
Matthew Cooper, Son of Barry Michael Cooper NEW YORK ... the Harlem Trilogy films—New Jack City, Sugar Hill, and Above the Rim—Cooper’s storytelling illuminated the complexities of life ...