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Writer Jim Carroll (1950-2009)
Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaLast Friday the writer of the novel The Basketball Diaries, Jim Carroll, died in New York. His novel was made into a film starring Leonardo DiCaprio as a youth who is a basketball player with a heroin addiction . It’s a story of crime that Carroll lived first hand. But along the way he also [...]
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