“The Basketball Diaries” was a collection of autobiographical ... published his first collection of poems, “Organic Trains” (1967). Poet Ted Berrigan, writing in the journal Culture ...

Poems 1994-1997 (1998). Carroll again made headlines when the film version of The Basketball Diaries was mentioned in connection with the Columbine shootings. "Artists have nothing to do with the ...

Not only did they buy The Basketball Diaries, but they bought books of poems." The film as a whole got mixed reviews and only made $2.4 million, though like any work of art, it has its devoted fans.

It was a natural progression for Carroll, leaping from the poetry stage into the semi ... Carroll spent much of the '80s optioning "The Basketball Diaries" to film studios, who kept the ball ...

“The Basketball Diaries” was a collection of autobiographical ... published his first collection of poems, “Organic Trains” (1967). Poet Ted Berrigan, writing in the journal Culture ...

The book of 'The Basketball Diaries' was published 1978. Perhaps the book has an immediacy, a poetry, that just can't be captured on film. Leonardo DiCaprio is a fine young actor, but he's ...