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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 ... 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 ... which starred Wesley Snipes and Chris Rock, Above the Rim, starring Tupac Shakur, and Sugar Hill.

Barry Michael Cooper, a writer and producer who ... Harlem-based films “New Jack City,” “Sugar Hill” and “Above the Rim.” He started his career as a journalist in the 1980s and made ...

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 ...

Barry Michael Cooper ... Among his many projects, Cooper wrote New Jack City, starring Wesley Snipes and Chris Rock. In 1994, he also wrote Sugar Hill and Above the Rim, starring Tupac Shakur.