Barry Michael Cooper, an investigative reporter-turned-screenwriter known for the films "New Jack City," "Above the Rim" and "Sugar Hill," has died. Cooper died Tuesday, a spokesperson for the ...

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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 ...

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, the acclaimed screenwriter best known for his "Harlem trilogy" consisting of the films "New Jack City" (1991), "Sugar Hill" and "Above the Rim" (both 1994), died Wednesday of ...

Cooper’s third film, Above the Rim, was released in theaters ... Cooper worked as a producer on the show and also wrote three episodes. Barry Michael Cooper wrote the ‘She’s Gotta Have ...

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 ...

Barry Michael Cooper, a writer and producer who co-wrote the blaxploitation '90s classic "New Jack City" and finished his "Harlem trilogy" writing "Sugar Hill" and "Above the Rim," died in ...