Farah Fawcett’s long-time lover and “A Bridge Too Far” star Ryan O’Neal was arrested over the weekend in Malibu. TMZ reports:

O’Neal was arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon and negligent discharge of a weapon [during a fight with his son, Griffin.] Ryan charges that his son grazed him “four or five times” with the fireplace poker and that when he ducked to avoid the swinging weapon, Griffin “hit his own [pregnant] girlfriend in the head.” “I fled to my room,” O’Neal says, “and I got my gun.” When Griffin pursued him anew, says Ryan, he fired his gun “into the banister” which scared Griffin into fleeing.

Father and son O’Neal have tussled before: In 1983, Ryan knocked out two of Griffin’s teeth in an altercation.

Boy, that’s just like Christmas of ‘88, before Mom quit doing meth and Dad was still boozing five or six times a week (God rest his soul). Only replace “Griffin O’Neal” with “me” and “Ryan O’Neal” with “my Mom,” and then replace “fireplace poker” with “butcher knife” and “pregnant girlfriend” with “my little sister and two social services workers and a guy we called ‘Swinger Joe’ who freebased in the basement.” I didn’t know it then, but after reading this, it seems we were actually living the “Hollywood Lifestyle.” I have to say it’s a bit overrated, what with the jail time and hematomas and such.