Actor Tom Sizemore, still on probation for a drug rap, was arrested Tuesday for investigation of possessing methamphetamine as he sat in a car outside a Bakersfield hotel, police said.

Sizemore, 45, of Calabasas, was arrested after drugs were found in his car outside the Four Points Sheraton hotel, Detective Greg Terry said.

Officers were called to the hotel at around 7:30 a.m. by a report that a man had challenged an employee to fight while trying to check in, Terry said. [...]

A search of the car turned up two bags of suspected methamphetamine and "some additional narcotics smoking pipes," Terry said.

It's hard not to feel sorry for the actor, who violates his probation at a time when it's inadvisable for high profile fuck-ups who occasionally star in their own reality series to do so. Sadly, however, it sometimes takes an arrest—and the harsh sentencing that may come with it—to finally set a celebrity gone astray back onto the straight and narrow. Besides, it's clear Sizemore has been getting nothing but bad advice lately from the snaggletoothed vestigial twin living inside his navel that begins to talk to him after a couple sleepless nights riding hard on the pipe.

• Tom Sizemore arrested for drugs in Bakersfield [LAT/AP]

The singer "tossed back glasses of wine" at a friend's Beverly Hills condo with her cousin Alli Sims on April 14, according to the mag, which reports that the two were later spotted at the hotspot Parc, where she had more wine. The next day, she went to the Japanese restaurant Shu Sushi, where she allegedly drank sake, reports In Touch.

"Brit feels like she can have a few drinks," a "friend" tells the mag. "She feels like as long as she's having fun and not hurting anyone, she doesn't need rehab."

Assuming the story is true—and, really, In Touch's unimpeachable track record on such anonymously sourced matters gives us little reason to believe otherwise—we'd caution not to too harshly judge the recent Promises graduate's libationary choices. To our knowledge, nowhere in any post-rehab maintenance manual does it forbid you from indulging from a little sake with your seared toro platter at Nobu, although opting to spend the dessert course inside one of their bathroom stalls with a half-dozen of your closest enablers is a definite no-no.

• Britney reportedly still hitting the bottle [MSNBC.com]