September 14, 2009

Jim Carroll Dead at 60


Although the most heavily chronicled years of his life are filled with drug abuse, heartache and exact opposite of anything resembling a role model, Jim Carroll also crawled out of addiction and fashioned himself into an acclaimed writer and punk music pioneer and the subject of an excellent film which helped boost the acting credentials of a young Leonardo DiCaprio. The Basketball Diaries author was 60.

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