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 ...

The image is burned indelibly into memory. Leonardo DiCaprio manning the New York skyline from the top of an apartment building, masturbating to the moon and the stars — free, as he says, of the need ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jim Carroll, who died 10 years ago Wednesday, was a star high school athlete who was also drawn to writing, particularly poetry. Author and poet Jim Carroll was just 12 years old when he started ...

Jim Carroll, the poet and punk rocker who wrote “The Basketball Diaries,” died Friday. He was 60. He died from a heart attack at his home in Manhattan, his ex-wife Rosemary Carroll told the New York ...

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 ...

Bobby Plump’s last-second shot in 1954 made Milan High School an Indiana legend. But it was a low-budget, feel-good film—released in November 1986—that sealed ...