Call it arrested development

During a lengthy reunion tour that concludes tonight at Madison Square Garden, The Police didn’t resolve the conflicts that blew apart one of rock’s most successful groups 25 years ago.

But at least its members seem to understand them better.

“People don’t really change,” says guitarist Andy Summers. “We’re the same three (jerks) we always were.”

He was again stuck between the “two kids scrapping on either side” – singer/bassist Sting and drummer Stewart Copeland.

The more spontaneous Copeland views Sting as a musical genius, but one sure of his ideas and not really interested in collaboration.

“When he exercises his right to have it the way he imagined it, it’s a problem for both him and me,” Copeland says.

“I just can’t do it. I can’t remember it. I have my own ideas. I’m incorrigible.”

Copeland, who trashed the band’s performance online after the first few gigs, says the last leg of the tour has had the best shows.

“As we’re getting more into it and less uptight about living the legend,” he says, “it is actually becoming the stuff that got us here.”

Foreign policy, Paris?

In case you were wondering, Paris Hilton didn’t use cue cards for her parody political video that made the online rounds Wednesday.

The 27-year-old heiress memorized her monologue – mock energy plan and all – in the spoof posted on Funny or Die, said Amy Rhodes, the Web site’s content director.

Hilton was not paid for her appearance “because she decided she just wanted to do it for fun,” Rhodes added.

It’s a response to Republican presidential contender John McCain’s video that compared Democrat Barack Obama to shallow celebrities like Hilton and Britney Spears.

Online Obama girl

Scarlett Johansson says she was embarrassed by the media coverage of her “e-mail relationship” with Barack Obama.

“I kept thinking to myself, ‘God, if this was just, like, Kal Penn or George Clooney or any of the other (Obama) surrogates or supporters … nobody would even talk about it,” she says.

Johansson told Politico.com in June that she and Obama had been trading e-mails.

He later said she doesn’t have his personal e-mail address, and that his assistant forwarded one message to which he replied.

Insult to injury

Morgan Freeman and his wife of 24 years have filed for divorce, just days after an auto accident that left him hospitalized.

Freeman’s business partner, Bill Luckett, said the divorce was in the works before Sunday’s crash, in which the Oscar winner suffered a broken arm and elbow.

Freeman, 71, was in the car with 48-year-old Demaris Meyer, described as a friend who offered him a ride home. He was driving because she didn’t know the way.

The birthday bunch

Writer/producer/humorist Stan Freberg is 82. Actress Verna Bloom (“Animal House”) is 69. Humorist Garrison Keillor is 66. Singer B.J. Thomas is 66. Actor Wayne Knight (“Seinfeld”) is 53. Actor David Duchovny is 48. Actor Harold Perrineau (“Lost”) is 45. Singer Raul Malo (The Mavericks) is 43. Actress Charlize Theron is 33.