Tom Sizemore is the nearest thing to Pete Doherty that America has, although – since Tom Sizemore's drug of choice seems to be methamphetamine rather than smack – he'd probably tear your head off in a violent rage if you ever told him that.
It goes without saying that Tom Sizemore has the same propensity for getting arrested as our dear old Doherty, though – and this was demonstrated yesterday when Tom Sizemore and another actor were arrested for apparently trying to beat up a hotel clerk, only for police to find all kinds of naughty drugs in his possession. Since this arrest violates his probation, a manadatory jail sentence looks on the cards for Tom Sizemore. We hope that's not the case – how would the world survive if a film like forthcoming Sizemore vehicle The I Scream Man never made it to screen?
Our quickly-invented Tom Sizemore/ Pete Doherty comparison stands up to scrutiny, you know. There are a few differences – the main one being that while Doherty follows up most drug arrests with a badly-wailed buskerish single, Tom Sizemore likes to make hardcore porn DVDs – but there are more similarities. Both can bizarrely attach themselves to women way above their league – Doherty has Kate Moss while Sizemore claims to have slept with Liz Hurley and almost Paris Hilton – and both keep getting in trouble for doing all sorts of dumb stuff.
In 2003 Tom Sizemore was convicted of beating up his then-girlfriend Mike Tyson pimper Heidi Fleiss, which led to all sorts of failed drug tests – partly thanks to his fake penis not working properly – and a stint in rehab last year. Not that rehab seemed to work for Tom Sizemore, though; if it had, he probably wouldn't have been arrested for possession of methamphetamine yesterday after trying to duff up a hotel worker. E! Online reports:
In town to shoot an independent feature, Sizemore and actor buddy Jason Salcedo got into an argument with hotel staff as they attempted to check in… Salcedo allegedly challenged the front desk clerk to a fight when his reservation wasn't found. A staffer called police, who found the actors holed up outside in their car with a stash of illegal drugs and smoking pipes, Terry said.
You're probably wondering who this Jason Salcedo is. Five words for you: 1995 Filipino movie Baby Love. But forget about Salcedo, because being arrested for possession of drugs leaves Tom Sizemore in a serious predicament. Right now he's banged up in Kern County Jail on a $14,000 bond, and that's the way it could stay since the arrest directly violates his old drug-charge probation and a manatory prison sentence looks likely.
First Paris Hilton gets imprisoned and now Tom Sizemore? We're just praying that Britney Spears keeps her nose clean over the next few weeks or we'll have nobody left to write about.
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