BOC: RIP Jim Carroll

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JAMES DENNIS “JIM” CARROLL, 60, a punk -ock outlaw poet and author who  
chronicled his wild youth in The Basketball Diaries, later made into a  
movie with Leonardo DiCaprio, died of a heart attack last Friday in his  
Manhattan home, according music business attorney Rosemary Carroll, his  
former wife. Carroll’s chaotic life combined sports, drugs and poetry,  
chronicled in his book, made into the 1995 film. After briefly attending  
Wagner College on Staten Island and Columbia University, he found his way  
to Andy Warhol’s Factory, contributing dialogue for Warhol’s films. Later  
he worked as a studio assistant for the painter Larry Rivers and lived  
with Patti Smith and photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. His debut album,  
Catholic Boy, included “People Who Died,” a litany of his friends, which  
was featured in the movie E.T. Two more albums, Dry Dreams (1982) and I  
Write Your Name (1984) followed. He published several more poetry  
collections— The Book of Nods (1986), Fear of Dreaming (1993) and Void of  
Course: Poems 1994-1997 (1998)—as well as releasing several spoken-word  
albums.