The Basketball Diaries
...ner and spray paints when he was 12. He and his friends would take pills, not knowing what they were, before the Bitty basketball games. There coach, Lefty, didn't like that but he let it slide for a little pat on the bottom. The kids on the basket ball team would call Lefty a Homo behind his back. Not all of them knew what a Homo really was but they had heard it used for guys like Lefty before. One time in Jim's life he and his friends had beaten up an old women for her purse. They had often done that to young women and elderly women too. It didn't matter when they were trying to get money for there drugs. At one point in Jim's life he lowered himself to let a man touch him just so he could get money for a little smack. Jim went to a Reglious school, which...