Temple's Tom Sizemore arrested in L.A. for allegedly hitting girlfriend

TOM SIZEMORE once was a fixture in Tattle.

It seemed like the burly actor (Black Hawk Down, Saving Private Ryan, Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew, Sober House) and Temple alum was always getting arrested for something - fights, drugs, violating probation, faking a urine test, etc.

With his ties to Hollywood Madam Heidi Fleiss (whom he was jailed for beating) and a brief foray into porn (The Tom Sizemore Sex Scandal), Sizemore was one of Tattle's MVPs of the millennium's first decade.

But then . . . nothing. Quiet. Crickets.

Well, unfortunately he's back. Sizemore was arrested Tuesday morning on suspicion of felony domestic violence

TMZ.com reported that the Los Angeles police responded to 911 calls of a woman screaming, and when police arrived, Sizemore allegedly struck the woman, his alleged girlfriend, in the head and face.

As of Tattle's deadline, he was being held on $50,000 bail.

Sizemore had been working on the USA Network series Shooter, whose summer premiere was pushed off to fall following recent police shootings. TMZ reported that during filming two weeks ago, Sizemore ran over a stuntman.

Nick Vadala reported yesterday on Philly.com that Bill Cosby has gone "completely blind" due to the degenerative eye disease keratoconus.

The New York Post's Page Six broke the news.

"He is confined to his house in Pennsylvania," an unnamed source told Page Six, "and the only person on his side is his wife, Camille, who is masterminding his defense. His only friends are the small army of lawyers on his payroll."

More than 50 women have accused Cosby of rape or sexual assault. He has repeatedly denied the allegations against him.

Since racism, we're told, is a thing of the past, someone may want to tell the Twitteracists harassing SNL's Leslie Jones (Ghostbusters).

Under a barrage of hateful tweets, Jones said she was "in a personal hell" and urged the social networking service to do more to eradicate abuse.

She called on Twitter to strengthen guidelines and for users to "stop letting the ignorant people be the loud ones."

Good luck with that.

She tweeted Tuesday morning. "I leave Twitter tonight with tears and a very sad heart," wrote Jones. "All this cause I did a movie."

"This type of abusive behavior is not permitted on Twitter, and we've taken action on many of the accounts reported to us by both Leslie and others," said a spokesperson for Twitter. "We rely on people to report this type of behavior to us but we are continuing to invest heavily in improving our tools and enforcement systems to prevent this kind of abuse. We realize we still have a lot of work in front of us before Twitter is where it should be on how we handle these issues."

* Atria Books will publish The Liberal Redneck Manifesto, based on the viral videos featuring Tennessee native Trae Crowder, whose rants on everything from religion to Donald Trump's candidacy have been seen by millions.

Dude's funny.

The book will come out Oct. 4, with Crowder joined by fellow satirists Corey Ryan Forrester and Drew Morgan. The three friends are currently on an 18-city tour. In a statement issued through the publisher, the three authors called their book "part carny sideshow," part tribute to the South and part wake-up call for the whole country.

* More than 50 ex-wrestlers say in a Connecticut lawsuit that World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. is responsible for their long-term neurological damage and failed to care for their injuries.

Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka, Joseph "Road Warrior Animal" Laurinaitis and Paul "Mr. Wonderful" Orndorff are among the plaintiffs who filed suit Monday in federal court in Connecticut against Stamford-based WWE.

Snuka is charged in the 1983 death of his girlfriend near Allentown. He has been ruled mentally incompetent to stand trial, and his defense partly blames head trauma suffered in the ring.

WWE denies the allegations.

The plaintiffs say they suffered concussions and other head trauma that resulted in long-term brain damage.

The bouts may be fake, but the head-slamming is real.

- Daily News wire services

contributed to this report.

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