Gunsmoke couldn't have been the best Western TV show of all time without its lead actor. But he only got the part thanks to ...

Kelly Lynch and Matt Dillon, age 25, in Drugstore Cowboy (1989) Avenue Pictures Productions/Getty. Established as a mature actor, Dillon appeared in rom-coms like Singles (1992) ...

American actor Matt Dillon, whose career has ranged from gritty independent cinema with Gus Van Sant’s Drugstore Cowboy (1989) through the blockbuster comedy of the Farrelly brothers’ There ...

Matt Dillon got the part that every young actor in the early ‘80s ... Drugstore Cowboy (1989) Simply known as Bob, Dillon delved into the indie market with Gus Van Sandt’s riveting examination ...

It's weird and maybe a little sad to look back on Gus Van Sant's Drugstore Cowboy, given how much of what it describes is now gone. But for those of us who don't recognize ourselves in Portlandi ...

The Locarno Film Festival will be honoring Matt Dillon with a lifetime achievement award, a mini-retro of his films, and an onstage chat.. Dillon’s career as an actor and director will be ...

Matt Dillon is at Locarno this week where he will ... the festival will screen Gus Van Sant’s 1989 film Drugstore Cowboy, for which Dillon won his first of two Indie Spirit Awards as well ...

I’ve never been convinced that Charles Bukowski is much more than a bohemian Harper Lee, another decent author whose mystique and legend overcompensate for obvious literary shortcomings. However ...

Matt Dillon is to receive the Locarno Film Festival’s Lifetime Achievement Award. The award ceremony on Thursday, August 4 in Piazza Grande will be accompanied by screenings of Drugstore Cowboy ...

Meet Matt Dillon, Slow Filmmaker: Documentary ‘The Great Fellove’ Was Worth the Wait. ... it was one that I got when I was doing “Drugstore Cowboy.” And I would always shoot stuff.

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.