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Barry Michael Cooper ... gem in cinema. Cooper continued to shape the landscape of Black storytelling with Sugar Hill (1993), starring Snipes again and Above the Rim (1994), starring Tupac ...

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 ... 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" ...

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 ...