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 of the 1970s downtown Manhattan scene, where he mixed with artists such as Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe. His life was shaped by drug use, which he wrote about extensively.

Published in 1978, “The Basketball Diaries” is a memoir of Caroll’s youth in New York City. It was made into a movie in 1995 starring Leonardo DiCaprio.

Carroll also published several poetry collections. His 1980 album, “Catholic Boy,” has been hailed as a landmark punk record.

With Lloyd Bridges

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 Dean,  on Sept. 19, 1915, in Worcester, Mass., she was married to Lloyd Bridges for 60 years, until his death in 1998. The two met while performing in a play at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Dorothy Bridges later appeared in a handful of movies and an episode of “Sea Hunt” with her husband, whom she called Bud.

At the age of 89, she published the memoir “You Caught Me Kissing.”

She also coached her children, according to an obituary from the family.

Bridges wrote poetry for five decades. In 2005, at age 89, she published “You Caught Me Kissing: A Love Story.” It included a collection of Valentine’s Day poems she wrote to her husband each year, a practice she continued after his death.

She is survived by sons Beau and Jeff; daughter Lucinda; 11 grandchildren including actors Jordan, Casey, Dylan and Emily; two great-grandchildren and a brother.

Her Poetry can be seen at

http://www.dorothybridges.com/

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