NEW YORK (AP) - Actress Renee Zellweger, who plays a pudgy British "singleton" obsessed with her weight and marital status in "Bridget Jones's Diary," says she can relate to the fear of failure.

"I worry about personal failure, in terms of making bad choices in my life, letting people down, letting myself down because I compromised my convictions in some way," Zellweger said in Parade magazine's Sunday edition.

Zellweger, 32, said she has faced difficult times, including the 1995 suicide death of her ex-boyfriend in Texas, just a few months before she auditioned for her breakout role in "Jerry Maguire."

"It came at a time when I was at a crossroads in my life and there was not a lot of light," Zellweger said.

"I find acting so fulfilling that it surpasses whatever thoughts of fear of failure I might have," Zellweger said.

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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - In a bizarre mix of style and taste, Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler took the stage at the Indianapolis 500 on Sunday with Florence Henderson, mother to the 1970s sitcom family "The Brady Bunch."

Henderson sang "America The Beautiful." Tyler sang the national anthem like an aging rock star who doesn't sing it often.

Tyler, in a flowing blue-starred shirt and red-and-white scarf, was so swept up in the moment he ended the song by singing "the home of the Indianapolis 500" instead of "home of the brave."

Not everyone was impressed.

"It would have been nice had it been about us," said race fan and Vietnam veteran Don Gillingham, rolling up his sleeve to show a faded blue Navy tattoo. "It is Memorial Day weekend."

Tyler said he meant no offense.

"I got in trouble my whole life for having a big mouth," he said. "I'm very proud to be an American, and live in the home of the brave."

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NEW YORK (AP) - Australian actor Hugh Jackman, who plays mutant superhero Wolverine in the "X-Men," says he's developed a cult following since the film's debut, but he'd happily do without the more rabid members.

"I noticed the (restaurant) manager approaching our table, all trembling," Jackman told the Daily News of New York about one encounter. "He suddenly tore off his shirt, and he had a Wolverine tattoo all over high back and chest. He told me that meeting me had made his millennium and I think he meant it, because he was bathed in sweat."

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NEW YORK (AP) - Oscar-winner Timothy Hutton, star of A&E's "Nero Wolfe" detective series, grew up reading mystery novels and says he's still a fan of whodunits.

Hutton, 40, who plays Wolfe's slimmer, dashing legman Archie in the television series, told Parade magazine he discovered author Rex Stout and his Nero Wolfe series in high school and has read all 73 novels.

The mysteries are set in the 1940s and 1950s in the Manhattan townhouse of the eccentric, orchid-cultivating Wolfe.

Hutton, who was also an executive producer and occasional director for the television show, said the crew filmed in a warehouse outside Toronto, but strived for authenticity in every scene.

"We wanted to be faithful to the books," Hutton said. "Even the colors. Nero Wolfe always wears yellow shirts. The front stoop has to have seven steps. There's a look to the show."

Hutton won a best supporting actor Oscar for Ordinary People in 1980.