Tatum O’Neal (44) was arrested about 7:30 PM Sunday after she was observed buying crack and cocaine on Clinton Street near her apartment. After her arrest O’Neal was charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance, a misdemeanor.

Police also arrested the alleged drug dealer, Allen Garcia (32), who was charged with criminal sale of a controlled substance, a class B felony.

The New York Post reports that O’Neal, who appears regularly on the cable series Rescue Me, is said to have told officers, "You know who I am, right?" She also claimed she was "researching a part, I’m doing this for a part as a junkie." Hahaha! Oldest excuse in the book. When that didn’t work she told detectives, "Can’t we just forget about this?"

O’Neal is the daughter of actor Ryan O’Neal, and the ex-wife of John McEnroe with whom she has children. O’Neal said in 2002 interview, that she was abandoned by a drug-abusing mother (actress Joanna Moore) at age 7, and began using drugs by 14, moving eventually from marijuana, Quaaludes, and cocaine, then to heroin.

O’Neal chronicled her struggles with addiction in her 2004 memoir, A Paper Life. The actress completed rehab in 1996 and claimed to be clean.

It’s time to go back to rehab. She’s a mess again.

Britney Spears is still being a bad girl. Last week she didn’t take her drug test after she didn’t supply the drug testers with her address. The judge said the last time she missed tests that a missed test was a failed test. The judge revoked her one day a week visitation.

The parenting coach also phone in during an emergency hearing with the judge, who is really a commissioner, and asked if she could end home visits since she wasn’t making any progress with Britney’s parenting skills.

Before her Blackout album hits record stores there is now news that pre-orders are now at number 76 on Amazon.com. The analysis is that Britney’s bad behavior is creating so much negativity that there is now very little interest in her new album. There is one way to make celebrities act like decent people, and forcing the talented ones to rise to the top, instead of scum. Don’t buy their albums, watch their movies, or buy their products until they spend more time giving great performances, rather than breaking the law.

Britney Spears was seen in Malibu along the Pacific Coast Highway, and today there is a huge fire raging. Did Britney start the fire with a flick of her cigarette? Maybe now she’ll stop smoking when the paparazzi are filling her car with gas. No one is saying yet what started the fire, but the following stars have so far been evacuated: Jennifer Aniston, Sting, Bill Murray, Tatum O’Neal, Rob Reiner, Linda Ronstadt, David Arquette and Courteney Cox, David Geffen, Jeffrey Katzenberg,Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson, Olivia Newton-John, and James Cameron.

The Spears/Federline is under court seal, so it is difficult to get timely information. Despite having her visitation revoked, Britney was out yesterday, at Starbucks, with her kids and a court monitor, so it looks like she made another deal. Britney probably had to take a drug test and pass it before the commissioner let her see her kids.