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They say bad things happen in threes, so Hollywood is heartily screwed today. In the last 48 hours, a great plague has befallen some of the best and brightest that the entertainment industry has to offer. A quick wrap-up:

• Kelsey Grammer had a mild heart attack, but he's OK. One of his siblings was murdered and his twin half brothers died in a scuba diving mishap, so a heart attack for this dude is pretty much akin to having the hiccups.

• Fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent died at the age of 71. But his blonde fingerwaves and kicky ascots will forever live on as long as Austin Scarlett is on this planet!

• Twice-baked po-Tatum O'Neal on her crack bust: "My dog died! I was sad!". Well then. Prepare to head down to 87th and buy a few baggies of rock because . . .

• Bo Diddley done doodley dieddley.

If we were named after a potato, we might want to escape by gargling the glass dick, too. According to WENN:

Troubled actress Tatum O'Neal has been arrested for buying crack from a drug dealer on the streets of New York.

The Oscar-winning former child star - who chronicled her recovery from a heroin addiction in her 2004 book A Paper Life - was spotted by a narcotics team exchanging money with a man three blocks from her home in the Big Apple.

The actress, daughter of actor Ryan O'Neal, initially told cops she was "doing research for a part", according to a police source. But, after authorities searched her and found two bags of drugs and a crack pipe, she changed her story, the source adds.

According to the New York Daily News, she pleaded with cops: "I've been clean for a long time. Today was the first time I was relapsing, but you guys saved me! Can you let me go?"

The Paper Moon star, 44, was charged with seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, a misdemeanour.

We're pretty sure that "research for a role" only works when you go to a $20,000/week rehabilitation facility. Not purchasing a baggie of crack on the street. At this point, we'll have Robert Downey Jr. claiming that his 25 years of drug addiction was just research for Less Than Zero. Even though it technically happened after he filmed that movie. It's called post-grad research, people,. more »

Here's some bad news, bears: poor ole Tatum O'Neal has fallen off the wagon again. But there's good news to be had as well: after tossing back a trillion cocktails, she was seen tongue-wrangling and hooter-honking another woman outside of Pop Burger in NYC on Wednesday. If you had to schtup John McEnroe for a decade, wouldn't you swear off men, too? more »