The movie "BasketBall Diaries" is loosely based on the life of a writer. What is the writer's name?
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Yes, it was Jim Carrol who was also the lead singer of a band ..THe Jim Carrol Band..they were in a favorite movie of mine called "Tuff Turf" from the 80's!!
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James Nesmith.  The guy that invented basketball invented all basketball.
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I'm guessing Bill Laimbeer... I don't know exactly what his father did for a living, but I remember hearing sometime during his career that his father was very wealthy, and actually did make more than his NBA son.
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Michael Jordan. Yeah, the basketball player. He majored in geography at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
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um, what's the author's name??
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I love the game of basketball beyond what most people do.  I follow high school, college, and pro.  I played two years of Junior College basketball, and I've coached.  From the time I turned 14 til the day I turned 18 I played 8 hours a day during the summers.  Currently I am 8 autographs shy of having the Top 50 of All-Time.  My favorite autograph is a 16x20 of Larry Bird and Julius Erving-"Dr. J".  Other than God, family, and friends-basketball is my love.  If you love to play, I hope you put in the time to become the best you can be.  I
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Well, you could try Bill Clinton's "My Life", which was his memoirs. "Madam Secretary" by Madeline Albright, and "The Art of Transformation" by Newt Gingrich. I'm not saying any of them are good reads, but they meet your criteria.\n\nEither way, good luck!
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My favorite writer as a child! Go to her official web site. You'll find her awards listed at:\n\nhttp://www.beverlycleary.com/teaching/talkingwith.html#awards
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That is called Autobiographical
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try this\n\nhttp://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000386/bio
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no-brainer. \n\nWilliam Shakespeare - the bard\n\nHe didn't go and kill himself - how cliche!  He wasn't completely self-absorbed like many artists and writers today.\n\nWilliam Shakespeare: 46 works + countless sonnets\n\nErnest Hemingway: 27 works + poems
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Maybe you could try browsing the sports section of a newspaper, see an interview on a sports figure.\n\nHow about go to www.ask.com and put that exact sentence in "Why I like basketball" and see what comes up.  You might be surprised at what you will find, could be most helpful.\n\nGood luck.
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Fictional, the movie was based off a book
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Robert Smigel, head writer of Late Night With Conan O'Brien.\n\n\nps. here's Triumph's website too.
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It was Michael Caine.  I remember watching an actress on Jay Leno that said he gave her that advice as well.  She said something about the book that he wrote that he put that advice in.
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Writer - literary, eloquent, articulate?
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"Written mostly in the third person, Wright gets inside the head of "brute Negro" Bigger, revealing his feelings, thoughts and point of view as he commits crimes, is confronted with racism, violence and debasement—the name "Bigger" both is a play of the word "Nigger", and a nod to the bigger social forces behind his actions. While not apologizing for Bigger's crimes, Wright is sympathetic to the systemic inevitability behind them. The story is a powerful statement about the inevitable fate of African-Americans as a result of racial inequality and social injustice. As Bigger's lawyer points out, there is no escape from this destiny for his client or any other black American, since they are the necessary product of the society that raised them. "No American Negro exists," Wright once wrote "who does not have his private Bigger Thomas living in his skull."\n\nDefinitely racially controversial; see site for additional information.