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The Basketball Diaries: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack


The Basketball Diaries: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack


$11.98


Jim Carroll’s harrowing saga of growing up troubled in New York City makes for a solid film with an excellent soundtrack to match. Cuts by a Vedder-less Pearl Jam (joining Carroll to rerecord his 1980 fav “Catholic Boy”) and Soundgarden (offering the gloomy “Blind Dogs”) merit the hype. P. J. Harvey gets extra mileage out of the brilliant “Down by the Water,” Green Apple Quick Step’s “Dizzy” is a …

Basketball Diaries [VHS]


Basketball Diaries [VHS]


$2.99


The pre-Titanic Leonardo DiCaprio stars as Jim Carroll, the poet and musician who spent much of his adolescence addicted to heroin and shooting hoops with fellow Catholic high school kids. As a biography, the film doesn’t amount to more than the sum of its gritty scenes of smack use, violence, perversions (poor Bruno Kirby plays a lecherous coach who comes on to young Jim), and the usual scream-an…

The Basketball Diaries


The Basketball Diaries


$6.58


The pre-Titanic Leonardo DiCaprio stars as Jim Carroll, the poet and musician who spent much of his adolescence addicted to heroin and shooting hoops with fellow Catholic high school kids. As a biography, the film doesn’t amount to more than the sum of its gritty scenes of smack use, violence, perversions (poor Bruno Kirby plays a lecherous coach who comes on to young Jim), and the usual scream-an…

Total Eclipse


Total Eclipse


$14.99


This biographical account of the tempestuous, taboo-shattering love affair between two 19th century French poets–Paul Verlaine (David Thewlis) and Arthur Rimbaud (Leonardo DiCaprio)–didn’t do much at the box office when it was released in 1995. But after the success of Titanic, it became somewhat infamous when Playgirl magazine announced its intention to publish nude pictures of DiCaprio taken f…

The Basketball Diaries [Blu-ray]


The Basketball Diaries [Blu-ray]


$16.30


The pre-Titanic Leonardo DiCaprio stars as Jim Carroll, the poet and musician who spent much of his adolescence addicted to heroin and shooting hoops with fellow Catholic high school kids. As a biography, the film doesn’t amount to more than the sum of its gritty scenes of smack use, violence, perversions (poor Bruno Kirby plays a lecherous coach who comes on to young Jim), and the usual scream-an…

Basketball Junkie: A Memoir


Basketball Junkie: A Memoir


$15.20


I was dead for thirty seconds.That’s what the cop in Fall River told me.  When the EMTs found me, there was a needle in my arm and a packet of heroin in the front seat.At basketball-crazy Durfee High School in Fall River, Massachusetts, junior guard Chris Herren carried his family’s and the city’s dreams on his skinny frame. His grandfather, father, and older brother had created their own s…

The Basketball Diaries


The Basketball Diaries


$8.52


The original classic story about growing up with drugs and sex and about learning to survive on the streets of New York–once again in print. An urban classic of coming of age….

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