Note: This post was written Friday. I'm not sure how it ended up in my Drafts folder.

I did this once before. This may become a feature, I don't know. But every now and again I'll read IMDB's Movie & TV News, as I did today, and have something to say on a couple items.

Socialite Paris Hilton's ex-fiance Paris Latsis has praised the hotel heiress for deciding to end their four-month engagement. Reality TV star Hilton, 24, and Greek shipping heir Latsis, 22, became engaged in May after a five month courtship and spent the summer in Europe hunting for wedding venues. However, in the past few weeks Hilton realized the couple were too young and released a statement over the weekend confirming the nuptials were canceled. In response to Hilton's statement, shy Latsis has stepped forward to praise The Simple Life star for her decision. He says, "She is the most incredible woman I have ever met in my life. I respect her decision and appreciate the very kind and generous manner in which she is handling her very difficult decision. This was the best experience of my life and I will always be grateful for it."

Sometimes, when you read these things, you forget that these are real people. Then you remember that not only are these real people, but that they're really thinking these thoughts. And that this is real life stuff for these people. Then you get depressed until you can forget again so that you can go back to making Paris Hilton sex tape jokes.

Film hunk George Clooney is abandoning comedy to concentrate on serious and political movies After making his Hollywood name playing suave lotharios and conmen in lighthearted movies, Clooney is keen to show a more serious side to his acting abilities. New movies Syriana, about the Cold War, and Good Night, And Good Luck, about a journalist's attempt to bring down Senator Joe McCarthy, signal the start of Clooney's new outlook. He says, "I'm working on projects that I want to raise a debate about. I'm interested in films of the 1960s and 1970s that were political. They were born out of the civil rights, Vietnam war, and women's rights movements. I feel it's a good time to have the entertainment community start asking questions again."

Didn't Clooney say just a couple days ago that Hollywood types should stop talking politics because it's pissing people off? Eh, the distinction between making a lamebrained comment to a reporter and putting millions of dollars of investment into making a point on the screen is significant. Keeping it on the screen is probably a good policy.

Former Taxi star Tony Danza is far from impressed with Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes' baby news - because they're having a child out of wedlock. The Hollywood couple, who became engaged in June after two months of dating, announced they're expecting their first child together on Wednesday. Danza is bemused by Cruise's behavior and believes his recent attack on Brooke Shields' decision to take medication for her postpartum depression was hypocritical considering the Mission: Impossible star is now living his own life with questionable morality. The talk show host says, "I'm a little upset about this. Here's a guy out there lecturing people about drugs, but out of wedlock births don't seem to bother him. He's never (appearing on) my show, so it doesn't matter." He adds, "I'm happy for them, but we're going to send them to Maury Povich's show for a DNA test."

As per their ongoing policy, I fully expect certain Republicans to claim Danza as one of their own and anything said against him of proof as to Hollywood's intolerance for conservatives. Snark aside, though, my first thought upon hearing the news was wondering what the often-moralistic Scientologists think about premarital sex.