Jennifer Aniston has lost her best friend Norman. Her beloved Welsh corgi-terrier mix died at age 15. The pooch she called "my baby boy" was "an old dog and it was just his time," her rep told People. In February she said, "Norman goes with me on location – I've got to take Norman."Over the years, Aniston described her pal as a quiet canine who enjoyed resting at her feet. The actress, who just purchased a $4.95 million apartment in New York, bought the home under the name Norman's Nest Trust. Earlier this year, the pooch tagged along with Aniston when she was a guest on TV's "Chelsea Lately." Host Chelsea Handler and the crowd went wild for the pup, whom Aniston affectionately called "Norm" and "Normy," and watched as the actress tried to get him to sit, but to no avail.
"He's 15 years old, he doesn't care anymore," said Aniston, who played the owner of a rambunctious but loveable dog in the big-screen hit "Marley and Me." Back when he was a young pup, Norman got into his share of trouble. He reportedly disappeared for two days in 1998 and eventually turned up at an animal shelter. But, according to Aniston: "Even back there he was as cool as a cucumber," Aniston told People in 2008. "He's just a person in a dog suit." Norman is survived by Aniston's other pup, a white German shepherd named Dolly.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy's wife, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, is pregnant, Sarkozy's father told a German newspaper this week. "Neither wants to know the gender beforehand, but I'm certain it will be a girl, and beautiful like Carla," he told The Bild newspaper. In late April gossip magazine Closer ran a story saying Bruni-Sarkozy, who has been spotted wearing uncharacteristically baggy clothing, was three months pregnant. The publication said officials weren't commenting because her age makes her pregnancy high-risk. The 43-year-old Italian model-turned-first lady also recently told a radio host that she wouldn't attend the Cannes Film Festival for "personal and also for professional reasons." The announcement was a surprise because of Bruni-Sarkozy's cameo in Woody Allen's "Midnight in Paris."
Sarkozy's office hasn't commented on the Bild story because officials want to avoid accusations that Sarkozy was using his personal life to help his chances of reelection, the Guardian reported.
If Bruni Sarkozy is pregnant, she'll likely give birth in the fall, just months before France's election.
Bruni-Sarkozy has a 10-year-old son from a previous relationship with a French philosophy professor.
Sarkozy has two adult sons from his first marriage and a 14-year-on son from his second marriage.
France's first couple married in 2008, three months after they met.
Denzel Washington has stage fright?
The actor confessed just that as he gave the commencement speech at the University of Pennsylvania.
Addressing about 5,000 graduates at the Ivy League school in Philadelphia on Monday, the Oscar- and Tony-winning actor said the academic ceremony was "a little overwhelming and out of my comfort zone." And that was his reason for accepting the invitation to speak, he said.
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had to come exactly because I might make a fool of myself," said Washington. "I've found that nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks. Nothing." The 56-year-old star of "Malcolm X" and "Philadelphia" delivered a humorous speech with a sobering truth: Failure is inevitable. Yet instead of having something to fall back on, he said, graduates should "fall forward" — learn from their mistakes and keep going.
Thomas Edison had countless failed experiments before succeeding with the light bulb, he said.
"Do you have the guts to fail?"
Washington said. "If you don't fail, you're not even trying." One of his earliest failures was as a pre-med student at Fordham University in New York, he said. He changed to pre-law, then journalism, and was close to flunking out before switching to drama and getting his degree. Washington described a second failure about 30 years ago at a miserable tryout for a Broadway musical. Then last year, on the same stage as that audition, Washington won a Tony award for his work in "Fences." The speech resonated with new grad Adam Shore, a 21-year-old physics major from the Philadelphia suburb of Dresher, Pa. "No one ever tells a graduating class, 'You're going to fail.' But it was very important for everyone to hear that," Shore said. "You can't go ... thinking you're going to succeed in every way. You have to be realistic."