The Associated Press: NYT: Jim Carroll, poet and punk rocker, dead at 60.
NEW YORK — 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 Friday, his ex-wife Rosemary Carroll told the New York Times.
Carroll was a fixture [...]

Dorothy Bridges, a poet, widow of “Sea Hunt” actor Lloyd Bridges and matriarch of the acting family that includes sons Jeff and Beau, died Monday. She was 93.
Bridges died of natural causes at her home in the Holmby Hills area of Los Angeles, family spokeswoman Jean Sievers said.
Born Dorothy Simpson and sometimes credited as Dorothy [...]