"Frasier" star Kelsey Grammer is expected to attend the parole hearing for a man convicted of killing Grammer's sister in 1975.

Eighteen-year-old Karen Grammer was abducted on July 1, 1975, outside a Red Lobster restaurant after an attempted robbery. She was raped and stabbed in the throat and back.

Fifty-two-year-old Freddie Glenn, who is serving a life sentence in Karen Grammer's slaying, is eligible for parole.

A Department of Corrections spokeswoman says Grammer plans to attend tomorrow's hearing at the Limon Correctional Facility in Limon, about 90 miles southeast of Denver.

TIRED POP STAR FINDS HER INSPIRATION

Nelly Furtado admits that writing her new, all-Spanish album, "Mi Plan," wasn't in her plans at all after finishing a hectic tour to promote her last chart-topping record.

"I was physically tired and I wasn't feeling inspired. It was almost as if I lost my pop inspiration to write in English," Furtado said. "I just needed a new outlet, and I found it by writing in Spanish."

At a Miami recording studio, the 30-year-old singer said that her fourth full-length album, which is set for release Sept. 15 on her own Nelstar Music label, more intimately explores the passion that fuels relationships.

$5.5M 'A SECRET BETWEEN MICHAEL AND ME'

A former financial adviser to Michael Jackson said Friday that he was the person who recently turned over to executors $5.5 million, which had been "a secret between Michael and me."

Dr. Tohme Tohme responded to an inquiry from The Associated Press about documents in which administrators of the estate said they had recovered $5.5 million and substantial amounts of personal property from an unnamed former financial adviser.

"It was not recovered," he said. "I had the money and I gave it to them. It was a secret between Michael and me."

He said the money, which came from recording residuals, was earmarked by Jackson for the purchase of his "dream home" in Las Vegas. He said he was in negotiations for the home when Jackson died.

COMICS FANS GET GLIMPSE OF 'IRON MAN 2'

The buzz for the first "Iron Man" film began at Comic-Con, director Jon Favreau said, so he thanked fans for their support by showing an exclusive clip from next summer's sequel.

"Nobody cared before you guys did," Favreau told a capacity crowd in the San Diego Convention Center's largest assembly hall yesterday. Then he rolled the clip, which introduced the film's anticipated new characters.

It showed an eye-patch-wearing Samuel L. Jackson, who plays Nick Fury; a red-headed Scarlett Johansson as martial-arts master Black Widow; and a heavily tattooed Mickey Rourke as the villain Ivan Vanko.

"Iron Man 2," starring Robert Downey Jr., is set to hit theaters in May 2010. Comic-Con wraps up today.