Matt Dillon sips from a Benson Bubbler right before he rips off a pharmacy on Northwest Glisan Street. That’s our opening for Drugstore Cowboy, Gus Van Sant’s 1989 directorial breakthrough. The film, ...

SEATTLE (AP) -- The man who wrote Drugstore Cowboy, an autobiographical crime novel that led to an acclaimed 1989 film starring Matt Dillon, has died at age 75. A state corrections spokeswoman says ...

With 1989’s Drugstore Cowboy, his second feature, Gus Van Sant became locked in as a filmmaker to follow. Set in 1971, the film tracks the ongoing quest across the Pacific Northwest of self-described ...

SEATTLE (AP) — James Fogle, who wrote "Drugstore Cowboy," an autobiographical crime novel that led to an acclaimed 1989 film starring Matt Dillon, has died. He was 75. Fogle died Thursday at a prison ...