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Barry Michael Cooper dead at 66: Writer of New Jack City, Sugar Hill and Above The Rim passes away
Cooper helped pen the screenplay of the iconic 1991 crime film New Jack City, starring Wesley Snipes as a drug lord opposite Ice-T as the detective on his case.
Just five days before his death, Cooper had written an Instagram post marking Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday by quoting the title of the civil rights activist's famed 1955 sermon Am I My Brother's Keeper?. Cooper helped pen the screenplay of the iconic 1991 crime film New Jack City, with a cast including (from left) Russell Wong, Mario Van Peebles, Judd Nelson and Ice-T Its soundtrack was particularly memorable as an exponent of the 'new jack swing' strain of R&B, with songs including I'm Dreaming by Christopher Williams, (There You Go) Tellin' Me No Again by Keith Sweat and I Wanna Sex You Up by Color Me Badd.
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