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Sizemore Free--for Now
Tough guy Tom Sizemore bawled and begged for mercy. He got it--to a point.
The actor was sentenced in Los Angeles Thursday to nearly two years in custody--17 months in jail and four months in a rehab facility--for drug-related probation violations.
But instead of ordering Sizemore immediately behind bars, Superior Court Judge Antonio Barreto Jr. allowed the once-rising star to remain free pending appeal of his 2003 conviction for misdemeanor domestic violence against former girlfriend Heidi Fleiss.
"You've been fairer to me than I ever anticipated," Sizemore told Barreto.
A remorseful and tearful Sizemore, 43, told the court he had shamed his parents, but insisted that he was innocent, essentially a good person and deserving of a second chance.
His tearful monologue, the Saving Private Ryan costar said, was not an act.
"I'm begging. I'm beseeching you. I cannot imagine my future without performing," Sizemore told Barreto.
Having escaped a bullet in Barreto's courtroom, Sizemore was off to another date before a jurist for sentencing in a felony drug-possession case.
In the end, Superior Court Judge Paula Adele didn't send Sizemore to a cell, either. Instead, she ordered him to enroll in a drug-treatment program by Apr. 14.
In all, it was quite a turnaround for the troubled actor. Sizemore went into the day facing as much as four and a half years in jail, and ended the day walking free, at least for now.
Once the picture of a broken man, Sizemore sounded like a giddy man.
"I'm free, I won. Free at last!" Sizemore shouted between court dates, before telling reporters he was currently clean and sober.
Lest anyone get the idea Sizemore had gone soft, the actor broke into Robert Blake, and called the prosecutor in the Fleiss case "a chump--he's a C-student, he's a piece of garbage." Sizemore also flipped off the crowd of news media.
Fleiss, who attended the probation violation sentencing, had her own snappy soundbite on her view of her relationship with Sizemore.
"I've done a lot of embarrassing things in my life," the former Hollywood Madam told TV's ABC7. "But this is near the top."
In Wednesday's Los Angeles Times, it was L.A. County Deputy District Attorney Sean Carney who had harsh words for Sizemore.
"He is completely out of control," Carney said in the paper. "He is really traveling the Robert Downey Jr. path."
Prosecutors allege Sizemore repeatedly violated the terms of his probation for the Fleiss case and a 2002 misdemeanor battery conviction, flunking seven drug tests while staying at a rehab center in February, and even trying to pass one by using a prosthetic penis called "The Whizzinator."
"The way it was reported, I was found with it on my body, but it wasn't on my body," a defiant Sizemore told the Times. "It was found in a public restroom with a pair of underwear that I never owned."
In the interview with the newspaper, Sizemore said he was broke, wrongly accused, formerly suicidal and a newly devout Christian.
Once the star of his own prime-time series, the short-lived Robbery Homicide Division, Sizemore is currently making the thriller Fear Itself and dreaming Oscar dreams.
Promised Sizemore in the Times: "I'm coming all the way back."
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