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Tatum O’Neal claims she was buying crack cocaine to research a part

June 2nd, 2008 by Scott Marks

Tatum O’Neal began her acting career in 1973 at the age of ten. She became the youngest ever actor to win an Acadamy Award for her performance as an adorable con in Peter Bogdanovich’s Paper Moon. It was her first film. Two years later she played the only girl on an all-boy little league team in Michael Ritchie’s enjoyable comedy The Bad News Bears. When Bogdanovich’s Nickelodeon tanked in 1976 he career pretty much ceased to exist.

To be adored, Oscared and obsolete all by the age of fourteen.

Last night O’Neal, 44, left her Manhattan luxury apartment in search of a bag of crack cocaine. She walked a few blocks to Clinton Street between East Broadway and Grand Street where she met up with suspected drug dealer Alan Garcia, 33. Both were arrested - O’Neal for criminal possession of a controlled substance and Garcia for sale of said substance - and expected to spend the night in custody.

When the arresting officers approached the two, O’Neal asked, “You know who I am, right?,” a source reportedly told the New York Post. Fast on her feet Tatum came up with the best line of dialog she has delivered in over twenty years: “I’m researching a part - I’m doing this for a part.”

If the part in question involved playing a sad, crack smoking has-been, there could be another Oscar-worth performance in Tatum’s future. She begged the arresting officer, “Can’t we just forget about this?”

In her 2004 autobiography A Paper Life, Ms. O’Neal admitted that drinking and drug-taking was in her DNA. O’Neal’s mother, Joanna Moore, was an alcoholic on a diet of amphetamines. “In the grip of addiction, [my mother] had virtually abandoned me and Griffin [her younger brother], leaving us in squalor - as well as beaten and abused by the men in her life,” wrote O’Neal.

It wasn’t long before Ms. O’Neal began seeking comfort in heroin, cocaine, alcohol, and other drugs.

While dad Ryan never went the rehab route, he was well known for not being the easiest man to live with. His on-again, off-again relationship with Farrah Fawcett helped sell many a tabloid. Last year Prosecutors decided not to file charges against him following a brawl with his son Griffin and allegations of assault.

Her well-publicized tempestuous marriage to tennis star John McEnroe didn’t do much to elevate her self-esteem.

A friend worked with Tatum O’Neal on the ill-fated 2006 telenovela Wicked Wicked Games. She said the actress was professional, accessible and, at the time, apparently drug free. At the time of her arrest, O’Neal apparently told police that she’d been clean for two years and that she’d just came out today. A squeaky clean pipe with a brand new screen was reportedly found on her person.

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Rapper DMX arrested: Cops dig up drugs and dead dogs

May 10th, 2008 by Scott Marks

I love my reefers, but where’s my pit bulls?
I love my reefers, but where’s my pit bulls?
I love my reefers, but where’s my pit bulls?
I love my reefers, but where’s my pit bulls?

DMX, the no-nonsense rap singer, who strings together “f**ks” better than a squad of hoes in Little TJ, was arrested on drug and animal-cruelty charges following an overnight raid on the his Arizona house Friday, authorities said.

According to Breitbart, the 37-year-old tough guy (aka: Earl Simmons) initially tried to barricade himself in his bedroom but emerged when a SWAT team entered his north Phoenix home during the 3 a.m. raid, sheriff’s spokesman Capt. Paul Chagolla said.

The indictment stems from an August search of the rapper’s home prompted by reports of dogs being abused on his property. Detectives seized 12 pit bull dogs, dug up remains of three others and found marijuana on the rural property.

On September 24, 2007, EI reported that, “Postmortem exams performed on three canine carcasses found buried in the backyard of the rapper’s Phoenix-area home revealed that two of the animals suffered grievous injuries before they died.” No charges were filed because investigators were unable to come up with sufficient evidence to suggest that DMX had a hand in their violent deaths.

It’s not all good.

During Friday’s raid, officials said more drugs were found and weapons seized and additional charges were possible. He made an initial court appearance yesterday where bail was sent at $7,500, said his local attorney, Cameron Morgan. Morgan said he expected bail to be posted quickly.

It’s been a rough week for the rapper. On Tuesday he was clocked doing 114 on a suburban Arizona freeway. No dogs were found in the glove compartment.

Admittedly, I do own a couple of DMX CDs after being treated to a thorough examination of the lyrics to It’s All Good on The Howard Stern Show. Any man that’s “done it all from mackin’ two hoes on a three-way, Dominican hoes on b-day (and) country hoes in VA” demands my attention. On the other hand, anyone that breeds animals to kill is instantly denied it.

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