Punk-rock poet and musician Jim Carroll, who chronicled his wild teen years in "The Basketball Diaries," has died of a heart attack, his ex-wife told The New York Times. By Chris Michaud, Reuters, The ...

Don’t Miss a Moment. Join 30,000 locals who stay current on Orlando news, culture, and events. Get our free daily newsletter. The image is burned indelibly into memory. Leonardo DiCaprio manning the ...

Mark Wahlberg’s 1995 feature The Basketball Diaries is highly regarded as one of the actor’s best movies. But Wahlberg shared that it had a brief influence on others’ perception of him. To help shed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Leonardo DiCaprio in ‘The Basketball Diaries’ (Island/Kobal/Shutterstock) For much of the ...

Jim Carroll seemed to have a problem with elderly Irish women. Then again, Jim Carroll had lots of problems. Carroll, the author of the proclaimed memoir “The Basketball Diaries,” died this week. He ...

Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Wahlberg's characters were friends on and off the court in the dark, coming-of-age 1995 drama The Basketball Diaries. But in real life, it seems things were a little more ...

Editor's noteCharlyn Chu is a senior captain on the Richard Montgomery girls' basketball team. She will write a diary series for The Washington Post throughout the season to document the life of a ...

Nicholas Antonucci was the longtime gym director and basketball coach at Madison Square Boys and Girls Club. G.N.Miller/NYPost The coach who inspired a character in “The Basketball Diaries” sexually ...

Leonardo DiCaprio may have been born in 1974, but he was made in the 1990s. Over the course of just a few years, DiCaprio went from total unknown to household name. Everyone remembers the ...