Barry Michael Cooper, a writer and producer known for 'New Jack City,' 'Sugar Hill' and 'Above the Rim,' has died at age 66. ...
‘New Jack City’ was a harbinger of the resurgence ... of Hip Hop’s synergistic capabilities.” Barry Michael Cooper was born on June 12, 1958, in Harlem, the elder of two sons of Lafayette ...
There is no discussion of 1990s-era Black movies without films written by Barry Michael Cooper, the Harlem, New York, born-and-raised journalist turned screenwriter who penned “New Jack City,” ...
New Jack City would become Cooper’s first big screen success. The 1991 film starred Wesley Snipes as Nino, and rapper Ice-T, who played the role of a dogged cop desperate to bring him down.
Inset: Barry Michael Cooper in 2011. Left and right ... issue of the Voice, with the subhead “New Jack City Eats Its Young.” Cooper’s 7,000-plus-word feature covered the history of Detroit ...
Jack was so down to Earth because we used to go to ‘On the Rocks’, which is above ‘The Roxy’ in Hollywood, and Jack would be in ...
Barry Michael Cooper, the journalist who coined the term ... 80s and wrote the screenplays for influential movies like New Jack City featuring Wesley Snipes’ iconic role as Nino Brown ...
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 ...
Michael Cooper on Jack Nicholson: "Jack was so down to Earth ... It was almost like Studio 54 in New York at the time, and Dr. Buss wanted that. He paraded women that came to the game around, ...
The writer and producer behind classic Black films like "New Jack City" and "Above the Rim" passed away at age 66. Cooper made his directorial debut in 2005 with Blood on the Wall$, a low-budget ...