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Jim Carroll. Actor: The Basketball Diaries. During the 1960s, Carroll was a basketball prodigy and a fountain of untapped talent. He was also progressively becoming an addict.
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Jim Carroll is known for Evil Behind You (2006), Black Easter (2021) and Assassin 33 A.D. (2020).
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Jim Carroll. Actor: The Basketball Diaries. During the 1960s, Carroll was a basketball prodigy and a fountain of untapped talent. He was also progressively becoming an addict.
- August 1, 1949
- September 11, 2009
James Dennis Carroll (August 1, 1949 – September 11, 2009) [1] was an American author, poet, and punk musician. Carroll was best known for his 1978 autobiographical work The Basketball Diaries, which inspired a 1995 film of the same title that starred Leonardo DiCaprio as Carroll, and his 1980 song "People Who Died" with the Jim Carroll Band.
Sep 11, 2009 · James Dennis "Jim" Carroll was an author, poet, autobiographer, actor and punk musician. He was the author of “The Basketball Diaries,” a cult-classic memoir of his drug-fueled misadventures as a teenager in the 1960s.
Directed by Scott Kalvert [3] in his feature directorial debut and based on an autobiographical novel by the same name written by Jim Carroll. It tells the story of Carroll's teenage years as a promising high school basketball player and writer who develops an addiction to heroin. [4]
Sep 14, 2009 · Upon further excavation, the facts of Jim Carroll came to light. A basketball star. A bottom-shelf junkie who turned tricks to support his habit. A Catholic boy turned prep school charity case.
