Where have you gone Cary Grant? Or even Hugh Grant?

How far has romantic comedy sunk? To what depths has this once noble genre of films reached? Once we had great leading men. Charming, funny, handsome, brimming with charisma. Cary Grant. Clark Gable. Spencer Tracy. Fred Astaire. Tony Curtis.

And now… Matthew McConaughey. Yes he's good looking and some think he has charm but magnetic? Star quality? Funny? Sorry. I just don't see it. It's as if Andy Griffith had looks. He opens this weekend in yet another formula romcom, FOOL’S GOLD (has there ever been a more appropriate title?).

And once we had classy romantic heroines. Carole Lombard, Kate Hepburn, Rosalind Russell, Ginger Rodgers, Barbara Stanwyck.

Now...Paris fucking Hilton. Yes, that tramp actually stars in a movie -- THE HOTTIE & THE NOTTIE that also opened this weekend.

It's time to officially retire the genre. If there's one rule about romantic comedies it's this: they don't work if you're rooting for the couple to each end up alone. Or in the case of Paris Hilton, if you're rooting for the love interest to be killed.