If you think the commentary on Mitt Romney's "suspended" campaign will soon pass, forget it. Prepare for weeks of pundits sifting the ashes. For more from the NYTimes go here or for the Christian Science Monitor go here. Slate takes a different slant, discussing Democratic grief at Mitt's passing. Then, unless you're a political junkie, I suggest you turn your laptop off for a few days.

Heck, movie buffs are still debating the Sundance Film Festival that ended last month.

Today, while taking questions on WashingtonPost.com, film critic John Anderson had a moment to clear up a slander dogging the Utah festival. Paris Hilton did NOT have a movie in Sundance or have a part in any movie in competition.

She did, show up, to promote her first film — not in the festival, The Hottie & The Nottie. (The NYTimes' parental caution is all the film needs in the way of a review: Characters pass gas, denigrate little people and perform the most revealing downward dog in yoga history.)

Los Angeles, Calif.: About The Hottie & The Nottie, I take this movie is not what it could have been in the send-up, inside-joke, social-critique department, but one dispatch from Sundance had the trailer deemed unlinkable, due to its offensiveness to the blogger, who happened to be female. How does a movie like this get to Sundance?

John Anderson: The estimable Ms. Hilton's appearance in Park City is an unfortunate symptom of the sundance festival's success. The film wasn't in the festival -- the "Hottie/Nottie" folks came, held an event, siphoned off Sundance cred, and pulled a scam of sorts --just as so many hair products have done over the years, and continue to do. It's a parasitic situation, although I don't hear the festival complaining all that loudly about all the press they get from celebutante/jailbird sightings