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Oscar winner Tatum O'Neal, the former child actress who chronicled her struggles with addiction in a 2004 memoir, pleaded guilty in New York on Wednesday to disorderly conduct stemming from her drug arrest in June. O'Neal, 44, was ordered to attend two half-day drug treatment sessions and pay a $95 fee, court officials said. O'Neal was initially charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance, a misdemeanor offense punishable by up to one year in jail, court officials said.

Sammi Kane Kraft, whose real-life baseball skills landed her the role of the pitching ace in the only film she ever made, 2005's "Bad News Bears," died early Tuesday in a car accident in Los Angeles. She was 20. She was a passenger in an Audi that was speeding on the westbound 10 Freeway near Crenshaw Boulevard about 1:30 a.m. when it rear-ended a big rig and was then struck by another car, according to the California Highway Patrol. Kraft was pronounced dead at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, said her brother, Frankie Kraft.

John McEnroe's ex-wife said the former tennis star used steroids while playing and dabbled in drugs off the court during their six-year marriage. Tatum O'Neal spoke out about McEnroe during an interview with Barbara Walters for an episode of ABC's "20/20" that will be broadcast Friday, according to a release from ABC News. O'Neal, an Academy Award-winning actress who is attempting a comeback, was responding to McEnroe's recently released autobiography, "You Cannot be Serious."

  SUNDAY A drop in cable TV's estrogen levels is expected when the gynocentric series “Nurse Jackie,” “The Big C,” “Girls” and “The Client List” present their respective season finales. (Showtime, 9 and 9:30 p.m.; HBO, 10 p.m.; Lifetime, 10 p.m.) ETs, go home: Noah Wylie, Will Patton and Moon Bloodgood are back to lead the resistance against the evil alien conquerors when “Falling Skies,” the hit sci-fi saga from Steven Spielberg, returns for its second season.

It's been nearly a decade since their six-year marriage ended, but like so many divorced couples, John McEnroe and Tatum O'Neal continue to be emotionally entangled. The pair have been exchanging venomous barbs with the ferocity of the recently separated. McEnroe fired first last month.

Through most of the 1980s, Lawrencia Bembenek, a former Milwaukee model and onetime police rookie, was a convicted murderer, guilty of the sensational, execution-style killing of her husband's first wife. But the woman often referred to as "Bambi" in the tabloids steadfastly proclaimed her innocence, and while she persuaded many people, Wisconsin authorities remained just as firmly convinced of her guilt. So was a jury: She received a life sentence in 1981.

John McEnroe and his wife, actress Tatum O'Neal, became parents for the second time when O'Neal gave birth to a son, Sean Timothy, 7 pounds 15 ounces, in a New York hospital Wednesday afternoon. The couple has another son, 16-month-old Kevin John.

John McEnroe has withdrawn from the Wimbledon tennis championships beginning June 22, it was announced today. "There is no reason for me to come to Wimbledon unless I'm 100% fit," McEnroe said in a telex to Wimbledon organizers. This will be the second consecutive year that three-time winner McEnroe has missed the tournament he used to dominate. He stayed home from Wimbledon last year in the midst of a six-month break from tennis to be with Tatum O'Neal for the birth of their first child.

John McEnroe said Tuesday that he and his actress wife, Tatum O'Neal, were having marital problems. McEnroe, 33, and O'Neal, 29, have been married six years and have three children. "Tatum and I are having marital problems, just as many other married couples do," McEnroe said in a statement issued through the office of his father, New York attorney John McEnroe Sr. "I intend to work hard at finding a sensible solution that's best for our entire family."

  SUNDAY A drop in cable TV's estrogen levels is expected when the gynocentric series “Nurse Jackie,” “The Big C,” “Girls” and “The Client List” present their respective season finales. (Showtime, 9 and 9:30 p.m.; HBO, 10 p.m.; Lifetime, 10 p.m.) ETs, go home: Noah Wylie, Will Patton and Moon Bloodgood are back to lead the resistance against the evil alien conquerors when “Falling Skies,” the hit sci-fi saga from Steven Spielberg, returns for its second season.

Strategically saving its two biggest headliner shows to fill the silence following the everything-but-fireworks finale of "The Oprah Winfrey Show," the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) now debuts in quick succession "Finding Sarah" and "Ryan and Tatum: The O'Neals. " Together, they neatly explain the dichotomy of Oprah-love and Oprah-bashing. "Finding Sarah," which premieres on Sunday night, showcases the very worst of the Winfrey movement. Following Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, down the yellow brick road of self-discovery with Oprah-approved consultants — Dr. Phil McGraw as the Scarecrow and Suze Orman, the Tin Man — creates an Emperor's-new-clothes moment reminiscent of the episode in which Oprah built Kirstie Alley a gourmet kitchen.

Oscar winner Tatum O'Neal, the former child actress who chronicled her struggles with addiction in a 2004 memoir, pleaded guilty in New York on Wednesday to disorderly conduct stemming from her drug arrest in June. O'Neal, 44, was ordered to attend two half-day drug treatment sessions and pay a $95 fee, court officials said. O'Neal was initially charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance, a misdemeanor offense punishable by up to one year in jail, court officials said.

It's been nearly a decade since their six-year marriage ended, but like so many divorced couples, John McEnroe and Tatum O'Neal continue to be emotionally entangled. The pair have been exchanging venomous barbs with the ferocity of the recently separated. McEnroe fired first last month.

John McEnroe's ex-wife said the former tennis star used steroids while playing and dabbled in drugs off the court during their six-year marriage. Tatum O'Neal spoke out about McEnroe during an interview with Barbara Walters for an episode of ABC's "20/20" that will be broadcast Friday, according to a release from ABC News. O'Neal, an Academy Award-winning actress who is attempting a comeback, was responding to McEnroe's recently released autobiography, "You Cannot be Serious."

Through most of the 1980s, Lawrencia Bembenek, a former Milwaukee model and onetime police rookie, was a convicted murderer, guilty of the sensational, execution-style killing of her husband's first wife. But the woman often referred to as "Bambi" in the tabloids steadfastly proclaimed her innocence, and while she persuaded many people, Wisconsin authorities remained just as firmly convinced of her guilt. So was a jury: She received a life sentence in 1981.

John McEnroe said Tuesday that he and his actress wife, Tatum O'Neal, were having marital problems. McEnroe, 33, and O'Neal, 29, have been married six years and have three children. "Tatum and I are having marital problems, just as many other married couples do," McEnroe said in a statement issued through the office of his father, New York attorney John McEnroe Sr. "I intend to work hard at finding a sensible solution that's best for our entire family."

Tatum O'Neal is getting back into the movie business. She will be in New York in May to start work on "Little Noises," her first movie since she took a hiatus to marry tennis star John McEnroe and to rear their two children. In "Little Noises," O'Neal stars as a woman who comes to the attention of an offbeat young man, played by Crispin Glover of "The River's Edge."

Actress Tatum O'Neal has given birth to a boy by tennis star John McEnroe, a spokeswoman at St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica said today. Kevin John McEnroe, who weighed eight pounds, 11 ounces, was born Friday. Mother and baby went home Monday in good health, nursing supervisor Corinne Rogers said. The couple, who have traveled together on the tennis circuit, at first denied rumors that O'Neal, 22, was pregnant.

Ryan O'Neal says he and daughter Tatum have not gotten along well since he began living with Farrah Fawcett more than a decade ago. Tatum, now 27, had been living with O'Neal since she was a child and her parents divorced. "I had to make a choice between Tatum and this girl--and I chose Farrah," O'Neal, 49, said in the February issue of Vanity Fair. "Tatum made me choose. I said, 'That's a bad idea. I sleep with this girl, Tatum. I don't sleep with you.'

Tatum O'Neal is getting back into the movie business. She will be in New York in May to start work on "Little Noises," her first movie since she took a hiatus to marry tennis star John McEnroe and to rear their two children. In "Little Noises," O'Neal stars as a woman who comes to the attention of an offbeat young man, played by Crispin Glover of "The River's Edge."