Clarification: Larry’s career may be dead, but he’s not

Larry Hagman wants to clear something up: He’s not dead. For months, rumors have been circulating that the former “Dallas” star, who had a liver transplant in 1995, has passed away. Or is dying. Or needs another liver transplant.

“I had a bad patch in December,” Hagman, 72, tells TV Guide Online. “Turns out it was some kind of E. coli bacteria that crossed over from my bowels to my liver. Part of my liver died, and they had to take (that part) out. I was on my back for a month. My muscles atrophied. I didn’t have any strength.”

He says he feels fine now, isn’t interested in another transplant at his age and isn’t particularly afraid of death anyway.

“I had taken LSD 40 years ago and I had ego death,” he says. “That took the fear of death away.”

But Hagman — who says he’s not retired, but “simply out of work” — does wish the premature rumors of his demise would, well, die.

“In Europe, they think I am dead, which is why I just went to the British Soap Awards in London,” he says. “I wanted to show people that I am alive … because a dead person can’t get jobs.”

From “Full House” to empty stomach?

Mary-Kate Olsen, the brunette half of the Olsen twins entertainment empire, has entered a treatment facility “to seek professional help for a health-related issue,” her publicist said Tuesday.

The publicist declined to comment on reports in Us Weekly and People magazines that Olsen has an eating disorder. Us Weekly described her as anorexic.

Mary-Kate and her sister, Ashley, started acting at age 9 months on the sitcom “Full House” and made their movie debut in the recent “New York Minute.” They turned 18 earlier this month and plan to attend New York University in the fall.

Lock, stock and two bouncing babies

German supermodel Claudia Schiffer and her husband, British movie producer Matthew Vaughn, are expecting their second child in November, her spokeswoman said Tuesday.

Schiffer and Vaughn, producer of movies including “Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels” and “Snatch,” are the parents of a 1-year-old son, Caspar.

Well, it’s a step in the right direction

Madonna and her British actor/director husband Guy Ritchie (director of “Snatch” and “Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels”) have won a partial victory in their bid to stop walkers from traipsing over their $16 million country estate.

A planning inquiry ruled that the public has no right of access to 15 of 17 contested segments of land on the 1,354-acre estate in southwest England. But the two parcels of land where walkers must be allowed, which aren’t within sight of the singer’s home, account for 133 acres of the 350 acres under dispute.

Now that’s what you call a sucker punch

Halfway through his third song at a Norwegian music festival last Friday, David Bowie was struck in the eye by a lollipop thrown from the crowd.

“Lucky you hit the bad one,” said the scowling singer, whose eye was damaged in a childhood fight. He later regained his composure and joked about the incident, asking after throwing a guitar pick into the crowd if he had hit anyone in the eye.

The lollipop toss actually may have been a token of affection, since Norwegians call the hard candy “love on a stick.”

The birthday bunch

Singer Diana Trask is 64. Actor Ted Shackelford (“Knots Landing”) is 58. Actress Frances McDormand is 47. Drummer Steve Shelley (Sonic Youth) is 42. Singer Chico DeBarge is 34. Actress Selma Blair (“The Sweetest Thing”) is 32. Singer Virgo Williams (Ghostown DJs) is 29.