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Singer Anthony may owe New York $3.4M

NEW YORK, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- New York and federal tax officials claim musician Marc Anthony owes $3.4 million in unpaid taxes.

New York authorities filed a demand for $1.8 million in back taxes against Anthony, husband of singer-actress Jennifer Lopez, in March, RadarOnline.com reported Thursday.

Three months earlier, a federal tax lien for $1.6 million was placed on the same property owned by Anthony, the Web site said.

In 2007, Anthony was ordered to pay $2.5 million in back taxes, which he claimed was the fault of his business management company.

2nd teen suspect in Perry break-in charged

ATLANTA, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- The second of three teen suspects was charged with breaking into actor-producer Tyler Perry's home in Atlanta, police said.

Police said Kamisha P. Boozer, 17, was arrested Wednesday and charged with prowling and criminal trespass, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Thursday.

Chloe Ware, 18, was turned over to police by Perry's bodyguard following last week's intrusion, police said.

Authorities said the break-in was captured on surveillance video, with investigators expressing confidence that the third trespasser, a male, would be arrested soon.

First Western film aired on N. Korean TV

PYONGYANG, North Korea, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- "Bend It Like Beckham" became the first Western commercial film shown on North Korean television when it aired this week, an organizer of the broadcast said.

The sports-themed movie was screened to celebrate a decade of diplomatic relations between Pyongyang and Britain, the official told The Hollywood Reporter in an interview published Friday.

The 2002 British women's soccer romance starring Keira Knightley, Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Parminder Nagra, appeals to soccer-loving North Korean audiences, said Nick Bonner, one of the Dec. 26 broadcast's organizers with the British Embassy.

"The film's girl power and its humor translate really well and North Korea is football mad," said Bonner, a producer of "The Game of Their Lives," a documentary about the North Korean soccer team that upset Italy in the 1966 World Cup.

In 2001, the documentary was the first non-Russian Western movie shown on state television in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the Reporter said. North Korea in recent years began allowing the broadcast of Chinese soap operas and older Russian films.

"Bend It Like Beckham," which also addresses homosexuality, religion and interracial relationships, aired with about eight minutes of sexual innuendo deleted, Bonner said.

Pitt, Jolie tour children's hospital

SPRINGFIELD, Mo., Dec. 31 (UPI) -- American actors Brad Pit and Angelina Jolie, fresh from celebrating the holidays in Africa, visited a pediatric cancer center in Pitt's boyhood town.

Last year, Pitt and Jolie, along with Pitt's brother and sister and their families, donated $1 million to St. John's Foundation for Community Health in Springfield, Mo., and dedicated the pediatric cancer center to Pitt's mother, Jane, People magazine reported Thursday.

"Jane Pitt is a gem in our community," hospital spokeswoman Cora Scott said. "She's a very wonderful woman who cares so very much about the well-being of children."

She said the acting couple called about an hour in advance Wednesday to ask for a tour of the center. Pitt and Jolie were accompanied by Pitt's parents and his brother Doug.

"They stayed about 45 minutes," Scott said. "It was a very nice visit."