Philadelphia Eagles star quarterback Michael Vick may be following in Levi Johnston‘s footsteps.
Vick, who was arrested for animal abuse and promoting dogfighting in 2007- has been invited to pose for Playgirl in return for a $1 million donation to the animal-rights group PETA.
“I sent the request to Michael Vick on Wednesday,” Daniel Nardicio, Playgirl rep, told Life & Style. “But we haven’t heard back yet.”
“I figured he paid back society for dog fighting, but what about the animals?” said Daniel. “This way he could donate a large sum to PETA and all he’d have to do is pose for the magazine. It’s kind of a win-win situation.”
Vick spent 19 months in prison for endangerment to animals.
Tom Hanks has bought a home that is believed to be the biggest real estate transaction in L.A. this year.
Hanks and his wife, Rita, paid about $26 million for the home in Pacific Palisades.
The house, at 14,500 square feet, is double the size of their previous, 7,000-square-foot home.
The Hanks bought the contemporary four-bedroom home from movie producers Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall, real estate sources told the Los Angeles Times.
The house, built in 1996, was listed at slightly more than $26 million on Blockshopper, an online news and market data service, and that would make it the most expensive home sale in the area this year, the newspaper reported.
Hanks, 53, won Oscars for his roles in “Forrest Gump” (1994) and “Philadelphia” (1993) and received lead actor nominations for “Big” (1988), “Saving Private Ryan” (1998) and “Cast Away” (2000), which he also produced.
Among the mutual credits of Kennedy, 56, and Marshall, 63, are “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (2008) and “Seabiscuit” (2003).
Keira Knightley and Orlando Bloom will not appear in Pirates of the Caribbean 4, Johnny Depp confirmed at a press event this weekend.
“We’re coming at it from a different angle at this point, Rob Marshall and a totally new take, it’s a new story,” Johnny said at the “Alice in Wonderland” press conference, reports First Showing.
Knightley and Bloom played lovers Elizabeth Swann and Will Turner in the previous “Pirates.”
As well as Depp, Geoffrey Rush may return as Barbossa and Penélope Cruz is rumored to have joined the cast.
Is this movie going to be all about Jack Sparrow? “I don’t know,” said Johnny. “I don’t think we’d ever throw too much Jack Sparrow in there. There will be a little bit of everybody.”
Actor Wesley Snipes, who has tax problems of his own, had a blunt reaction to news about a software engineer who crashed his plane into an office building with nearly 200 IRS employees inside.
In an interview with the Associated Press, Snipes asked, “What’s new?” Authorities say A. Joseph Stack III, who was furious with the Internal Revenue Service, crashed his plane into an Austin, Texas, building on Thursday. Stack and one other person were killed.
Snipes said tax problems have been an issue in the U.S. from the very beginning.
As the actor put it: “I think it was an issue even for the early colonists and the British, so what’s new?” Snipes, 47, was convicted in 2008 of not paying taxes for three years. He was sentenced to three years in prison and is appealing.
Despite his legal troubles, Snipes said, “All is very well.
We’re very positive, we’re very confident that things will work out to our benefit and to our favor.” He brushed off the experience as just another part of living.
“These are the bumps and bruises of life. They build character and you learn from it as you move on.” Snipes says he still doesn’t understand why the IRS pursued him.
He added, “I’m not a politician, I’m not saving the world, I haven’t created a cure for cancer, I make movies …”
— The Associated Press also contributed to this report
lsmith@denverpost.com
