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Jim Carroll, RIP
Jim Carroll, 60, a poet-turned-punk rocker whose book "The Basketball Diaries" chronicled his descent from elite high school basketball star to Times Square drug addict, thief and prostitute, died Sept. 11 at his home in Manhattan after a heart attack.RIP! "People Who Died" by the Jim Carroll Band, and other videos below....Mr. Carroll's best-known work was an autobiographical account of his years from 12 to 15 when he received a basketball scholarship to Trinity, an elite Manhattan high school, and began abusing cocaine and other drugs. The journal, excerpted in the Paris Review, became highly popular on college campuses and was published as a book in 1978. A 1995 movie version starred Leonardo DiCaprio as Mr. Carroll." [Washington Post]
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Posted on September 14, 2009 7:47 PM
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Jim, you were a true talent.
Posted by Anonymous | September 14, 2009 7:50 PM
this is a sad, sad day.
Posted by Anonymous | September 14, 2009 8:04 PM
why it take you so long to brake this story? my mom told me on facebook yesterday. tsk-tsk bklyn vegan
Posted by Anonymous | September 14, 2009 8:19 PM
and now Patrick Swayze...
Posted by Anonymous | September 14, 2009 8:33 PM
POINT BREAK FOREVER
Posted by Anonymous | September 14, 2009 8:53 PM
DALTON R.I.P.
Posted by Jim | September 14, 2009 9:17 PM
@ 8:19
Learn the difference between 'brake' and 'break' please...and perhaps spend a little more time on your ESL homework and less time critiquing the content of someone's blog.
Posted by Funderburgh | September 14, 2009 10:11 PM
"tsk-tsk bklyn vegan" Maybe BV's mom is not on Facebook! Start your own blog before giving someone else's advice!
Posted by Anonymous | September 14, 2009 10:56 PM
First Willy DeVille, now Jim. Two of NYC's true talents are gone. Too bad there is no one to pass the torch to. Sorry but most of today's NYC artists are just imitators, not originators. I like a bunch of them (LCD, YYY's, Gogol Bordello, TVOTR ETC...)but there is nothing all that new.
Posted by Anonymous | September 14, 2009 11:01 PM
"my mom told me on facebook yesterday"
this person is obviously a trouble maker. the story wasn't out yesterday.
RIP JIM
Posted by Anonymous | September 15, 2009 12:17 AM
"the story wasn't out yesterday."
It was posted in a comment here at 8:21 PM yesterday (Sunday night):
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2009/09/whats_going_on_725.html
Let's see how long it takes BV to mention that Phil Collins will never drum again.
Posted by Anonymous | September 15, 2009 12:49 AM
facebook is the new brooklyn vegan
Posted by Anonymous | September 15, 2009 1:04 AM
My mom was listening to Phil Collins when she told me Jim Carey, I mean Patrick Swayze died via Skype.
Posted by Anonymous | September 15, 2009 1:05 AM
i bet half of you don't even know who jim carroll is and you don't know New York either...c'mon raise your hands! the half of you!
Posted by Anonymous | September 15, 2009 2:40 AM
My dad knew Jim Carroll and is friends with Todd P
Posted by Anonymous | September 15, 2009 9:58 AM
bad junk?
Posted by Anonymous | September 15, 2009 11:19 AM
I think Todd P is from Ohio?
Posted by Anonymous | September 15, 2009 11:54 AM
the fucking media!!!
Posted by Anonymous | September 15, 2009 1:42 PM
I guess it's better than dying from too much Draino...
Posted by Anonymous | September 15, 2009 5:50 PM
The article is very professionally written. I enjoy reading every day
Posted by lv | October 17, 2009 11:26 AM