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Michael Jerome Cooper (born April 15, 1956) is an American basketball coach and retired professional player. He is the head coach of the USC Women of Troy college basketball team. He is a former player in the National Basketball Association (NBA) who spent his entire career with the Los Angeles Lakers, and has coached in both the NBA and WNBA. Michael Cooper is the only person to win a championship, as either a coach or a player, in the NBA, WNBA, and the NBA Development League.[citation needed]
Born in Los Angeles, California, he attended Pasadena City College before transferring to the University of New Mexico. He played for the New Mexico Lobos for two seasons, 1976–78, and was named first team All-Western Athletic Conference. In his senior season the Lobos won the WAC title, with Cooper averaging 16.3 points, 5.7 rebounds and 4.2 assists per game.
Drafted out of New Mexico by the Lakers in the third round of the 1978 NBA Draft (60th overall), "Coop" became an integral part of the "Showtime" Lakers teams of the 1980s with his defensive skills. In a twelve-year career, he was named to eight NBA All Defensive Teams, including five First Teams. He won the NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award in 1987. He, along with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Magic Johnson, was a member of five Lakers championship teams in 1980, 1982, 1985, 1987 and 1988.
Actors: Juliet Landau (actress), Chris Riggi (actor), Ed Vassallo (producer), Mia Pinchoff (actress), Grant Rosenmeyer (actor), Lori Hamilton (actress), Chris Bellant (actor), Laura Piccoli (actress), Isaac Loftus (writer), Justin Chan (editor), Isaac Loftus (producer), Mattheau O'Brien (director), Barney Oldfield (producer), Julian Singleton (writer), Archana Rajan (actress),
Plot: When a mysterious illness suddenly spreads through the town, Gabriel Cooper finds himself fighting for his life. After seeking refuge in the local high school, he's united with a group of teenagers who are hiding in the school. Together, they must face the gravest of teenage dilemmas: sex, parents, friends, and zombies.
Genres: Drama, Thriller,Actors: Ben Davis (writer), Ben Davis (director), Ben Davis (producer), Tyler Hiott (writer), Tyler Hiott (editor), Brian Elliott (producer), Cole Timms (writer), Robert Nichols (producer), Cole Timms (producer), Cole Timms (producer), J.P. Gregoriew (producer), Adam Hagenbuch (actor), Mark Duncan (miscellaneous crew), John Moore (actor), Jake Abell (actor),
Genres: Sci-Fi, Short,Actors: Michael Prupas (producer), Benoît Mathieu (miscellaneous crew), James Kidnie (actor), Chuck Shamata (actor), Karl Pruner (actor), Jean Beaudoin (editor), Claudia Besso (actress), Barry Blake (actor), Alexander Sandy Jesion (miscellaneous crew), Mindy May Jenkins (miscellaneous crew), Katheryn Winnick (actress), Claudia Ferri (actress), Robert O. Green (producer), Nadia Guglieri (miscellaneous crew), Nicolas Wright (actor),
Genres: Mystery, Romance, Thriller,Actors: Michael Jacobs (producer), George Zaloom (producer), Eric Bruno Borgman (actor), Jack Wagner (actor), Michael Spence (editor), Gabrielle Carteris (actress), Doug Campbell (director), Doug Campbell (writer), Joseph Broido (producer), David Giancola (producer), Felecia Hatcher Brown (miscellaneous crew), Bruce Perkins (miscellaneous crew), William T. Baumann (producer), Peter Beckwith (producer), Jill Ferguson (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: The management of a ski resort blatantly ignores a local expert's warning that a mass of snow has build up which is just waiting to come down the ski slopes in a terrible avalanche. Instead of clearing the endangered area, skiers are allowed to remain 'for the rest of the day'. Nature doesn't wait till after business hours, so the crystallized wave rushes down and crushes everything on its path, including a brand new hotel; among the guests is the architect Michael Cooper's own family, which now tries to remember the plans well enough to find the way out, as he tries to instruct the rescue operation above, where a second, even larger avalanche is expected.
Keywords: overallsActors: Scout Taylor-Compton (actress), Irene Bedard (actress), Sharon Lewis (producer), Stephanie Weier (director), Crystle Lightning (actress), Robert Hallak (actor), Stephanie Weier (producer), Stephanie Weier (writer), Stephanie Weier (producer), Ron Dunn (editor), Igor Ridanovic (miscellaneous crew), Lynn Sheperd (miscellaneous crew), Denny Wilson (composer), Jai Brooks (miscellaneous crew), Christine Ho (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: On the one-year anniversary of a car accident that she caused and which paralyzed a little girl named Ashley Cooper, a woman must journey through the nightmarish day from her state of shame and guilt to try to find self-redemption.
Keywords: independent-film, number-in-titleActors: Augusto Victa (actor), Kerry Fox (actress), John Hurt (actor), George Faber (producer), Douglas Hodge (actor), Adam Richards (miscellaneous crew), Irene Chawko (miscellaneous crew), Charles Pattinson (producer), Trisha Biggar (costume designer), Guy Hibbert (writer), Paul Garrick (editor), David Attwood (director), Cahal Bannon (miscellaneous crew), Ian Hopkins (producer), Marie-Gabrielle Blake (miscellaneous crew),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Derren Nesbitt (actor), Norman Wisdom (actor), Bernard Hill (actor), William Katt (actor), Norman Wisdom (actor), Vladek Sheybal (actor), Edward Joffe (producer), Samuel Benedict (producer), Simon Ward (actor), Michael Harm (miscellaneous crew), Leon Herbert (actor), Gemma Craven (actress), Betty Williams (miscellaneous crew), Chloë Annett (actress), Noel Cronin (producer),
Plot: An American (Michael Cooper)arrives at a quiet Scottish hotel where he meets an Englishman (Maurice Rigby). As Maurice walks out towards his car it suddenly explodes !! Cooper picks up Rigby who tells him The Mob is trying to kill him. This is a story of British gangsters in the 90's, betrayal and "Double Cross".
Keywords: based-on-novel, colon-in-title, seven-word-titleActors: David A. Prior (actor), Richard Lynch (actor), David 'Shark' Fralick (actor), David A. Prior (director), David A. Prior (writer), David Winters (producer), Liz Graham (miscellaneous crew), Douglas Harter (actor), Douglas Harter (miscellaneous crew), Ron Frazier (actor), Graham Timbes (actor), Trudy Grant (producer), Tim Card (actor), Sean Holton (actor), Christopher Reynolds (editor),
Plot: A film company crew from AIP (American International Pictures), is filming a low-budget action film in the woods around Mobile, Alabama. The director, Ben Adams, is having problems with the budget dragging out and the hot-tempered producer threatening to shut down the project if the filming is not speed ed up. The lead actress, Jodi Marshall, also deals with her horny co-star and her growing feelings for Ben, both of whom had a romantic fling in the past. But one night, a company of heavily armed soldiers parachute into the area, whom are led by a disgruntled former U.S. Special Forces officer, named Michael Cooper whose mission is to take the city and hold it, and the populace, for ransom. With Ben, Jodi and the rest of the film crew learn of the silent invasion and that the enemy soldiers plan to kill them to prevent them from warning the authorities, the film group decides to take on the invading army all by themselves relying on only their wits, and movie prop guns as their real weapons.
Keywords: die-hard-scenario, epic-battle, explosion, fictional-war, film-within-a-film, gunfight, independent-film, movie-set, murder, paratrooperActors: Stella Stevens (actress), George Duning (composer), Arthur Hunnicutt (actor), Neil Travis (editor), Marj Dusay (actress), Fess Parker (actor), Barry Nelson (actor), Sam Rolfe (writer), Casey Tibbs (actor), Joe Kapp (actor), Herbert F. Solow (producer), Nick Archer (editor), Clay O'Brien (actor), Leonard Horn (director), Kenneth Washington (actor),
Genres: Drama,