Barry Michael Cooper, the screenwriter behind the influential “Harlem Trilogy” of films New Jack City, Sugar Hill and Above the Rim and the man who coined the term New Jack Swing, has died. He was 66.

“He was very aware of everything from Hemingway to Dostoyevsky,” the author, critic and filmmaker Nelson George ... Mr. Cooper said in a 2007 interview with Stop Smiling, an arts and culture ...

Journalist, filmmaker, and cultural critic Nelson George, a close friend and former colleague of Cooper at The Village ... with culture magazine “Stop Smiling.” “If there was no ‘New ...

Anyone who thought Lance Barber’s run as George Cooper, Sr. was going to be cut ... it doesn’t mean that they don’t end up together. [Smiling] It does not mean that. Absolutely.

Anyone who thought Lance Barber’s run as George Cooper, Sr. was going to be cut ... it doesn’t mean that they don’t end up together. [Smiling] It does not mean that. Absolutely.

My relationship with him goes very deep. You know, after I retired, I had alcohol and substance abuse issues. And Jerry—he ...

via YouTube / February 7, 2025 Michael Cooper: But you know, people ask me all the time, ‘Who’s the hardest player?’ And I always say him, because I played against Michael Jordan ...

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Everly Livingston, 14, and her sister Alydia, 11, were promising young figure skaters, dad Peter Livingston played hockey and Donna was very active in the girls’ lives, family friend Kim Urban told ...