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American woman

Vancouver, B.C. — Pamela Anderson would seem to have it all: fame, fortune and fabulous good looks.

But there’s something else she wants: United States citizenship.

Anderson, who was born in British Columbia, planned to undergo an interview to become a U.S. citizen Wednesday in Los Angeles, said her attorney, Barbara Federman.

“If she passes, she gets sworn in,” Federman said Tuesday.

The lawyer wouldn’t say why Anderson, who moved to California in 1989, wanted to make the change. The 36-year-old actress wouldn’t be required to renounce her Canadian citizenship.

Put her to work

New York — A beleaguered Brooklyn neighborhood could get a makeover courtesy of Martha Stewart if a New York congresswoman gets her way.

Rep. Nydia Velazquez, a Democrat, asked the judge who presided over Stewart’s trial to sentence the domestic doyenne to community service at a training center for low-income women in the impoverished Bushwick section of Brooklyn.

“I simply believe that Ms. Stewart’s value should not be squandered as she repays the court and the American people for her crimes,” Velazquez said in statement Tuesday.

A hearing is set for next month before U.S. District Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum, where Stewart could be sentenced to more than a year in prison for lying about a stock sale.

Comic actor Tommy Farrell dies

Los Angeles — Tommy Farrell, a nightclub comedian and prolific movie and TV character actor who was the last living B-Western sidekick, has died. He was 82.

Farrell, the son of actress Glenda Farrell, died Sunday of natural causes at the Motion Picture and Television Fund hospital in the San Fernando Valley.

On television in the 1950s, Farrell played Cpl. Thad Carson on “The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin,” and had recurring roles on “The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis” and “Bourbon Street Beat.”

A 2003 Golden Boot Award recipient, he appeared frequently in movie and TV Westerns, including “Gunsmoke.”

Certified by the (ex) Terminator

Los Angeles — California’s college graduates are getting a bonus on their diplomas this year: the autograph of a Hollywood superstar.

Now that Arnold Schwarzenegger is governor, his name appears on every degree awarded by the state’s two largest university systems. That has excited some graduates who are fans of the governor but dismayed others who aren’t fond of his movies or politics.

“It kind of makes the diploma seem like a bit of a joke that an action hero has signed and validated it,” said Bridget O’Brien, who graduated in December from the University of California, Los Angeles. “I got a B.A. in geography, but I think my diploma is B.S.”