Jackie Kershaw Cooper (born September 13, 1941) is an American author and

film critic Film criticism is the analysis and evaluation of films and the film medium. In general, film criticism can be divided into two categories: journalistic criticism that appears regularly in newspapers, magazines and other popular mass-media outlets ...

. He is the host of the Jackie K. Cooper Show, an entertainment review television show broadcast weekly on Com South and Progressive Tel cable networks in the

Middle Georgia Central Georgia is the area containing the metropolitan region surrounding the city of Macon, in Bibb County in the U.S. state of Georgia. It abuts the Atlanta metropolitan area, just to the north. Similar and coextensive names for this region ...

area. He is also one of the founders of the Southeastern Film Critics Association and is also a member of the

Broadcast Film Critics Association The Critics Choice Association (CCA), formerly the Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA), is an association of television, radio and online critics. Their membership includes critics who review film and television. Founded in 1995, it is the ...

and the

Broadcast Television Journalists Association The Critics Choice Association (CCA), formerly the Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA), is an association of television, radio and online critics. Their membership includes critics who review film and television. Founded in 1995, it is the ...

Life and career

Cooper was born in

Clinton, South Carolina Clinton is a city in Laurens County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 8,490 as of the 2010 census. It is part of the Greenville– Mauldin– Easley Metropolitan Statistical Area. Clinton is the home of Presbyterian Col ...

and attended Clinton High School. He graduated from

Erskine College Erskine College is a private Christian college in Due West, South Carolina. It is an undergraduate liberal arts college and a graduate theological seminary. The college was founded in 1839 by the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church. Its spor ...

in 1963 with a

Bachelor of Arts Bachelor of arts (BA or AB; from the Latin ', ', or ') is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines. A Bachelor of Arts degree course is generally completed in three or four years ...

degree in history and social studies, and in 1967 from the

University of South Carolina School of Law The University of South Carolina School of Law, also known as South Carolina Law School, is a professional school within the University of South Carolina. The school of law was founded in 1867, and remains the only public and non-profit law schoo ...

with a

Juris Doctor The Juris Doctor (J.D. or JD), also known as Doctor of Jurisprudence (J.D., JD, D.Jur., or DJur), is a graduate-entry professional degree in law and one of several Doctor of Law degrees. The J.D. is the standard degree obtained to practice law ...

. Cooper began writing movie reviews for the Houston Home Journal, a small market news outlet in

Perry, Georgia Perry is a city in Houston and Peach counties in the U.S. state of Georgia. It is the county seat of Houston County. The population was 13,839 at the 2010 census, up from 9,602 at the 2000 census. As of 2019 the estimated population was 17,894. I ...

, in 1974. Several years later, the Houston Home Journal was purchased by Millard Grimes. As a result, Cooper's reviews were picked up by Grimes’ eight additional small market newspapers and appeared in Grimes’ publications until the mid-1990s. For two years, beginning in 1980, Cooper lived in

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where he continued to write reviews for Grimes while also writing for the

Redlands Daily Facts The ''Redlands Daily Facts'' is a paid daily newspaper based in Redlands, California, serving the Redlands area. The ''Daily Facts'' is a member of Southern California News Group (formerly the Los Angeles Newspaper Group), a division of Digital ...

newspapers. During Cooper's time in

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, he made weekly trips to

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for movie premiers, press parties and interview opportunities – making industry contacts and establishing relationships that have lasted until the present. Cooper is a

Rotten Tomatoes Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television. The company was launched in August 1998 by three undergraduate students at the University of California, Berkeley: Senh Duong, Patrick Y. Lee, and Stephen Wang ...

approved

, and

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contributor.

Television

In 1984, Cooper began broadcasting televised movie reviews for the

CBS CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS, the abbreviation of its former legal name Columbia Broadcasting System, is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainmen ...

affiliate station in

Macon, Georgia Macon ( ), officially Macon–Bibb County, is a consolidated city-county in the U.S. state of Georgia. Situated near the fall line of the Ocmulgee River, it is located southeast of Atlanta and lies near the geographic center of the state of Geo ...

. In the following year, Cooper moved to the

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affiliate where he taped three movie review spots weekly. In 1992, Jackie moved to the Fox station and also began broadcasting two weekly review spots on the Macon NBC affiliate station, an arrangement that lasted for ten years. Beginning in 2011, Cooper began taping weekly installments of the Jackie K. Cooper Show. The Jackie K. Cooper Show is broadcast weekly on Com South and Progressive Tel, cable networks in the Middle Georgia area.

YouTube

Cooper has gained a following on

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with his weekly “Two Minute Entertainment Rundown”; his subscriber count on

grew from 136 to over 100,000 in just a few days, after his videos were posted on various internet forums including

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Personal life

Jackie lives in

, and is the author of 7 books of

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and

short stories A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood. The short story is one of the oldest t ...

. Cooper married in 1970 and has two sons and four grandchildren.

References

External links

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Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews by Jackie K Cooper

Jackie K Cooper
official web site
''Jackie K Cooper''
at the

Critics Choice Association The Critics Choice Association (CCA), formerly the Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA), is an association of television, radio and online critics. Their membership includes critics who review film and television. Founded in 1995, it is the ...

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