MIAMI - Paris Hilton hated her 2006 movie “Pledge This!” and refused for months to make promotional appearances for it despite a contract requiring her to do so, lawyers for the film’s investors said as trial opened Thursday in an $8 million lawsuit against her.

“During the six-month period, at no time would she take 10 minutes to do a phone interview,” attorney Bryan West, who represents the investors, said in opening statements.

Jim Carrey may have played the Grinch, but now he's about to be the grandpa!

The star's 21-year-old daughter, Jane Carrey, is expecting her first child with boyfriend Alex Santana, the actor's rep, Marleah Leslie, confirms to E! News.

The actor's only child fronts the Jane Carrey Band, and the dad-to-be goes by "Nitro" in his rock group Blood Money.

"I am very excited," the future grandfather said. "Jane is going to be a great mom."

NEW YORK (Reuters) - "Harry Potter" stars Emma Watson and Rupert Grint felt the pressure of millions of fans of the boy wizard series when they recently filmed a highly anticipated kiss between their characters Hermione and Ron.

The kiss happens in the seventh and final book in author J.K. Rowling's series and Watson told a news conference on Thursday -- promoting the sixth film "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" -- that the scene was filmed two weeks ago.

A group of Illinois grave diggers were charged Thursday with running a morbid scam in which they exhumed corpses in a black cemetery so they could resell the empty plots, cops said.

Investigators suspect more than 300 bodies were dug up in the suburban Chicago graveyard and discarded in a pit so the ghouls could cash.

"There should be a special place in hell" for the perpetrators, the Rev. Jesse Jackson said during a press conference at the desecrated grave yard.

WASHINGTON --- Amid the great debates of the day over health care, global warming and economic recovery, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday there will be no pause in the action to honor Michael Jackson.

For the record, the San Francisco Democrat said that Jackson was "a great, great performer" and that his death has brought "lots of sadness ... for many reasons."

Hayden Panettiere, best known as a cheerleader-turned-superhero on "Heroes," took on yet another high school role in "I Love You, Beth Cooper," in theaters Friday (July 10). In the movie, based on a novel by the same name, dorky Buffalo Grove High School valedictorian Denis Cooverman (Paul Rust) proclaims his love for Beth Cooper during his speech at graduation and manages to get the attention of both Beth and her vindictive boyfriend in the process.

Janet Jackson reportedly attempted to set up an intervention in 2007 to confront Michael Jackson about his addiction to painkillers, a pair of sources told CNN. According to the report, Janet recruited her brothers to help stage the intervention, however Michael told his bodyguards to prevent his family from entering his property and refused to accept phone calls from his mother Katherine, CNN reports.

For several years now director Michael Bay has been the favorite whipping boy of movie fans and critics. The man behind "Armageddon," "Pearl Harbor," "Bad Boys" and "Bad Boys II" is regularly lambasted for his pumped-up, showboating style and utter lack of restraint. These stylistic tendencies haven't hurt him at the box office - most of his movies have earned hundreds of millions worldwide, making him one of the most consistently successful filmmakers in the last 10 or 15 years.

Dr. Arnold Klein, a Beverly Hills dermatologist with a powerful and pampered celebrity clientele, admits he once donated sperm to a sperm bank.

And he also admits he gave Michael Jackson prescriptions for Demerol, although he did not prescribe Diprivan, found in Jackson's home when he died and suspected of causing his death.

Klein said Wednesday that he discovered that Jackson was using Diprivan while on tour in Germany. Klein warned Jackson the drug was dangerous. "I told him he was absolutely insane."

Los Angeles (E! Online) – Michael Jackson's departure from the Staples Center Tuesday didn't require the involved level of hocus-pocus that's been speculated.

E! News has learned exclusively how the star's body disappeared from the giant venue undetected by the media…and all it took was an underground tunnel!

A source tells E! News that after the service, security moved the golden casket through an underground tunnel that connects the Staples Center to the Nokia Theatre.

United Airlines has learned a valuable lesson: Don't mess with a musician's prized possession.

Canadian folk singer Dave Carroll tried for nearly a year to get United to pay for his $3,500 Taylor guitar that he said baggage handlers broke. When the airline still refused to cough up any money, he did what any songwriter would do: He wrote a song about it.

Pearl Jam have announced a batch of fresh tour dates to celebrate the release of their new album Backspacer, due out September 20th. The album's first single "The Fixer" will hit radio on July 20th. As Rock Daily previously reported, Target stores will have the exclusive mass retail rights to the album, with Pearl Jam's own Ten Club and independent record stores also stocking their shelves with Backspacer on September 20th.

ALSIP, Ill. - Four workers at a historic cemetery that is the final resting place for many famous blacks have been charged with taking part in a scam in which employees dug up and dismembered bodies, dumped them into unmarked mass graves and then resold the plots to unsuspecting members of the public, authorities said.

Carolyn Towns, 49, Keith Nicks, 45, and Terrence Nicks, 39, all of Chicago, and 61-year-old Maurice Dailey of Robbins, were charged Thursday with one count each of dismembering a human body, a felony.

For weeks, the near constant refrain on this season of “So You Think You Can Dance” has been: Solid dancers, boring dancing. Well, I don't know about the rest of you, but last night it just! got! interesting!

At least three Routines For The Ages. The return of Melanie LaBetteMidler. Another sighting of Kayla's adorable grandparents. The (slight) redemption of the Chbeeb.

During the Michael Jackson memorial on Tuesday (July 7), Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas proudly proclaimed her support for House resolution 600 in praise of the King of Pop, even holding up a copy of her proposal honoring the singer for his humanitarian efforts during a lengthy, loving speech in honor of the singer.

A number of republicans in the House - most notoriously Long Island Rep.

In the near future as depicted in Moon, Earth's energy crisis has been solved by mining fuel from rocks on the dark side of the moon's surface. The elaborate operation, which is run by a private company, is almost entirely automated, requiring the supervision of only one person who serves a three-year stint.

Currently holding the job is Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell), who has two weeks left before he gets to come home.

NEW YORK - Just over 31 million people in the United States watched the Michael Jackson memorial on television.

Nielsen Media Research says that's a smaller audience than for Princess Diana's funeral or President Barack Obama's inauguration - but it's still impressive in today's TV world. Millions more watched video streams on their computers.

The Jackson memorial on Tuesday afternoon was carried live on some 18 different networks, including all the big broadcasters and cable news stations.

WASHINGTON – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi shut the door Thursday to a resolution honoring Michael Jackson because debate on the symbolic measure could raise "contrary views" about the pop star's life.

Lawmakers are free to use House speeches "to express their sympathy or their praise any time that they wish," said Pelosi, D-Calif. "I don't think it's necessary for us to have a resolution."

The legacy of 1980s teen-comedy king John Hughes lives on in I Love You, Beth Cooper, which, aside from a few music cues and stray bits of vernacular, easily could have been made during Hughes' influential reign. The similarities are simultaneously boon and curse to the movie: As pleasurable as revisiting the glossy, witty, misadventure-filled realm Hughes created for his adolescent characters is, you've also been here before. Often.

We may not know exactly where Michael Jackson's body is, but we do know at least one place it isn't—Neverland Ranch.

Santa Barbara County Communications Director William Boyer tells E! News that the Jackson family has not applied for a permit to do anything at Neverland Ranch and has not been in contact with the county for any reason.

"We haven't had any formal contact with the Jackson family or their representatives about any aspect of a burial, funeral, memorial service, nothing regarding Mr.