George Clooney showed up at a restaurant at which the entire cast of ER had gathered to celebrate Parminda Nagra’s 31st birthday last October. The show ER refuses to die, and helped launch Clooney’s career when he starred as hot doctor Doug Ross from 1994 to 1999.

When the time came to pay the bill for 20 people, everyone was delighted to hear that Clooney had already taken care of it:

When Parminda Nagra had a birthday in October, the entire cast too her out to swanky Firefly in Studio City – and even ex-doc George Clooney showed up to join the group of 20 that included John Stamos, Maura Tierney, Goran Visnjic, Shane West…. Clooney breezed out after sharing several bottles of $300-pluss wine – but when the “ER” gang called for the bill, amount to several thousand dollars, they were told: “Compliments of Dr. Clooney.”

[From The National Enquirer print edition, Mike Walker’s column. February 19, 2007]

It’s nice to read a positive story about Clooney, since the press still holds a grudge against him for that Princess Diana paparazzi rant he had at the time. Janet Charlton reports it was misguided anger on Clooney’s part for the fact that all the gossip rags were paying attention to all the women he was banging for convenience sake. She seems pretty conservative to me in saying Clooney eroded freedom of the press, and I don’t agree with her. Clooney was just dealing with Diana’s death in his own way and it happened over ten years ago. He’s just another hot-looking cad, although he seems to be a generous one at that.