Death certificated revised

Los Angeles Friends of former Beatles guitarist George Harrison have corrected a death certificate that listed a bogus address as the place where he died.

The original document filed with Los Angeles County authorities listed a nonexistent Beverly Hills address as the place where Harrison, 58, died Nov. 29.

Harrison actually died at a home several miles away in the Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles Dist. Atty. Steve Cooley said Tuesday.

Families of dead celebrities sometimes try to distract grim curiosity-seekers by withholding the actual site of the death. Falsifying such information, however, can be prosecuted as a felony.

Now that the document has been corrected, Cooley said he considers the matter closed and will not seek charges.

McKellen feeling lucky

London Ian McKellen says 13 the number of Oscar nominations received by “The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring” is “suddenly one of those lucky numbers.”

The nominations for the first installment of J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy classic include best picture, best director for Peter Jackson and supporting actor for McKellen, the only acting nomination for the film.

“I think I genuinely represented the entire fellowship; if any of them are feeling miffed, they’ve got next year and the year after,” McKellen said with a laugh. “I won’t be greedy.”

Terminator twist

Los Angeles Arnold Schwarzenegger will have some female curves thrown at him in “Terminator 3: The Rise of the Machines.”

“The idea of the female terminator is great,” Schwarzenegger said. “She will have additional powers that Robert Patrick in ‘Terminator 2’ did not have.

“She will have control over machines and over anything mechanical, therefore including myself. So you will sometimes see me as the villain and sometimes as a terminator that tried to save the world.”

“Terminator 3” is scheduled for release in 2003.

Circus stunt brings damages

Zurich, Switzerland Princess Stephanie of Monaco and the director of the Swiss national circus each have been awarded damages of $3,600 from a news magazine for a photomontage that showed them in sexy positions.

The Zurich district court on Tuesday ordered three employees of the Swiss magazine Facts jointly to pay the damages to Stephanie and Franco Knie who is also the circus’s elephant trainer in the defamation-of-character lawsuit.

Facts’ March 2001 picture showed Stephanie, in sexy underwear, standing inside a circus trailer while Knie reclined on a bed, wearing a G-string with an elephant’s trunk attached to it.