Basketball Diaries' author Jim Carroll dies at 60
Poet and punk rocker Jim Carroll has died at age 60. Funeral arrangements are pending.
Poet, punk rocker and author Jim Carroll performs at a 2002 benefit in New York.
Poet, punk rocker and author Jim Carroll performs at a 2002 benefit in New York.
A respected poet and musician, Carroll also was the author of "The Basketball Diaries," which was adapted into a 1995 movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio.
Carroll died Friday at his home in Manhattan after suffering a heart attack, said his former wife, Rosemary Carroll.
In 1980, he released the popular album "Catholic Boy," which, according to his fan Web site, expressed the "omb-fear anticipation, the optimistic nihilism and glittering darkness of the 1980s."
Here is the link
http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Music/0 ... index.html
Poet, punk rocker and author Jim Carroll performs at a 2002 benefit in New York.
Poet, punk rocker and author Jim Carroll performs at a 2002 benefit in New York.
A respected poet and musician, Carroll also was the author of "The Basketball Diaries," which was adapted into a 1995 movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio.
Carroll died Friday at his home in Manhattan after suffering a heart attack, said his former wife, Rosemary Carroll.
In 1980, he released the popular album "Catholic Boy," which, according to his fan Web site, expressed the "omb-fear anticipation, the optimistic nihilism and glittering darkness of the 1980s."
Here is the link
http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Music/0 ... index.html
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I'll miss his presence, but admire him through his work
RIP Jim!!!!
"I don't believe in damn curses. Wake up the damn Bambino and have me face him. Maybe I'll drill him in the ass." --- Pedro Martinez
wow one of my favorite underground songs!!!
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