121. DOUG E DOUG – Actor, Writer, Director, Producer & Jamaican Bobsledder!


Doug E Doug (Douglas Bourne) has an incredible 30-year career as an actor, comedian, director, producer, and a writer. He is well-known to movie viewers for his starring role as Jamaican bobsledder “Sanka Coffie” in the movie Cool Runnings. Doug recently released his first book, called “The Fall of ’87: A Dope Novel”, a stand-alone mystery about a young black man in Brooklyn who embarks on a spiritual odyssey to solve a murder.

Doug E Doug was born in Brooklyn, New York and started off his career as a stand-up comic at the age of 17. He was seen first at the Apollo Theater by Russell Simmons, who asked Doug to write & host The New Music Report. Spike Lee also discovered Doug at the Apollo and included him in his film Mo' Better Blues, a musical comedy with Denzel Washington & Wesley Snipes.

Early in Doug's career he worked as a summer school English teacher and writing coach, so he used these skills recently to write his new (& first) book, “The Fall of '87: A Dope Novel”.

The Fall of '87: A Dope Novel

Brooklyn is ground zero in a war on drugs, a world beset with temptation and opportunity. Nineteen-year-old Joe Thomas Jr. decides to solve the murder of his brother instead of selling drugs. Will Snake, a dangerous drug kingpin, let him and his family go? The Fall of '87 captures a young black man's spiritual odyssey, as he contemplates his soul's salvation or economic survival during two tragic weeks in tempter's snare of 80's Bedford Stuyvesant.The Fall of '87 is the stand-alone mystery novel from actor Doug E. Doug. If you love wit and warmth, read this engrossing, insightful, epic tale that captures the heroic voices of a forgotten generation.

For more information about Doug E Doug’s debut novel, The Fall of ’87: A Dope Novel, visit https://www.amazon.com/dp/1652497099/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_U_0lkMEbVE34MZD

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