Word: inwood
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Carroll is best known for Basketball Diaries, his bestselling 1978 memoir recounting his adolescence in the rough-and-tumble Inwood neighborhood of Manhattan, which formed the basis of a 1995 film starring Leonardo DiCaprio. Carroll also ventured into the world of punk music with his 1980 hit single “People Who Died,” immortalized in the opening scene of Steven Spielberg’s E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial...