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Miami Herald
15-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Miami Herald
‘Star Trek' Star Says He Won't Play His Popular Character Again
Star Trek actor Anson Mount is opening up about his decades-long career in the entertainment industry. During an appearance on the July 15 episode of Michael Rosenbaum's podcastInside of You, Mount, who currently plays Captain Christopher Pike on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, discussed starring in the Western series, Hell on Wheels, which aired for five seasons until 2016. Mount said while he missed filming the series "like crazy," he wouldn't ever return to play his character, Cullen Bohannon. "It was a full chapter of my life. I love working outside. I love working with horses. I loved working with all of the cast and producers and everyone on set. I loved working with the network. But, no, I would not go back," said Mount during the interview. He explained that he believed it would be a disservice to his character if he ever reprised the role. "You know you've done your job when you feel like your character has deserved their rest. And it would be like grave digging to bring him back. I wouldn't do that," said Mount. While speaking to Rosenbaum, Mount also discussed playing Captain Pike, a role originated by Jeffrey Hunter in the original Star Trek series, which aired from 1966 to 1969. He noted that Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is a prequel to Star Trek: The Original Series, meaning his version of the captain is "in a very different place" than Hunter's Pike. He also said he appreciated having to abide by the limitations of portraying an already-established character. "I think every artist needs the limitations. And at this point Star Trek is almost its own genre. And I think you have to study if you want to do it correctly," said Mount. When Rosenbaum asked Mount if he "studied" the Star Trek franchise, the Hell on Wheels actor replied that he was a fan of the original series when he was a child. "I grew up watching it in syndication," said the 52-year-old. The third season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds premieres on July 17 on Paramount+. Copyright 2025 The Arena Group, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Miami Herald
15-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Miami Herald
‘Star Trek' Star Makes Unexpected Comment About William Shatner
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds star Anson Mount, who plays Captain Christopher Pike, is opening up about his relationship with William Shatner. During an appearance on the July 15 episode of Michael Rosenbaum's podcast Inside of You, Mount said he occasionally has conversations with Shatner, who originated the role of Captain James T. Kirk in Star Trek: The Original Series, which aired from 1966 to 1969. Mount surprised Rosenbaum by stating that he doesn't ask Shatner about his time starring in Star Trek. Rather Mount likes to ask about his horse farm. "I like to ask Bill about his horses ... He's really devoted most of his life to show horses and he goes all over the world with them," said Mount during the podcast interview. In addition, Mount complimented Shatner for his wit and high energy level at the age of 94. "I could only pray for that much energy at that age. He's a force of nature. It's unreal," said Mount. Mount then shared that he has been at fan conventions where Shatner has taken center stage during panels. According to Mount, audiences are absolutely mesmerized by Shatner. "I've been to a couple of things where they just put him out on stage with a folding chair and he just starts talking. And he'll talk an hour straight and have the audience captivated. He can turn it on like you wouldn't believe," said the actor. Mount mentioned his appreciation for Shatner in a June 12 Instagram upload. In the caption of the post, Mount confirmed that Star Trek: SNW, which premiered in 2022, will end after its 5th season. He also noted that both Captain Kirk and Captain Pike were at the helm of the USS Enterprise. "I grew up watching Bill Shatner strut his stuff across the bridge and sit in a chair that I could not fathom would one day be mine to occupy. It has been a dream fulfilled," read a portion of the caption. Star Trek: SNW Season 3 premieres on July 17 on Paramount+. Copyright 2025 The Arena Group, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Chicago Tribune
08-07-2025
- Chicago Tribune
4 shot in separate Hegewisch, Humboldt Park shootings, police say
Four people, including a 16-year-old boy, were injured in two separate shootings Tuesday on the North and Far South Sides, according to Chicago police. Officers found the 16-year-old shot multiple times in the 13400 block of South Torrence Avenue in the Hegewisch neighborhood 13400 block of South Torrence Avenue, around 8:36 a.m., after responding to a call of a person shot, police said. The boy was transported to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn in critical condition, officials said. A 20-year-old man with multiple gunshot wounds to his head and body drove himself to Advocate Trinity Hospital, where he was also listed in critical condition, police said. A firearm was recovered, but no one had been arrested as Calumet area detectives investigated. A few hours later, two men, 28 and 35, were standing outside the 600 block of North Monticello Avenue in the Humboldt Park neighborhood when four gunmen exited a grey vehicle and opened fire just before noon, police said. The 28-year-old, who suffered multiple gunshots to the head and body, was transported to Strtooger Hospital in critical condition. The 35-year-old suffered three times to the body and was transferred to Mount Sinai Hospital in serious condition, police said. No arrests had been made as Harrison Area detectives investigated. The shootings follow a violent holiday weekend. Between 6 p.m. Thursday to just before midnight Sunday, 44 people were shot, including seven fatally, across the city in 32 separate shooting incidents, Chicago police reported Monday.
Yahoo
25-06-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Manchester United report: Mason Mount future confirmed, following exit rumours
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Manchester United man Mason Mount has a huge season ahead of him. | Credit: Getty Images It's fair to say Manchester United midfielder Mason Mount hasn't had the best luck at Old Trafford so far. Advertisement The 26-year-old midfielder has been hit with what appears to be never-ending injury problems, having only played 46 times for the Red Devils across two seasons. Managers aplenty, Mount has often found consistency in the side something of a rarity. According to Transfermarkt stats, the England international has missed 50 games for the Red Devils since his move from Stamford Bridge in 2023, and questions over his future have hit the headlines once again this summer. With Ruben Amorim eyeing a rebuild at Old Trafford, could Mount be on the move? Mason Mount's Manchester United future confirmed Ruben Amorim wants changes in his squad | Credit: Getty Images Known for his tenacious pressing, never-say-die midfield attitude and impressive ball carrying, all of those key attributes need games to get up to speed, and more importantly, a system that suits it. Advertisement Back in 2022/23, arguably his best season at Chelsea, Mount was ranked by FBref in the 99th percentile, when compared with players from the top six leagues around Europe, for shots blocked and in the 93rd percentile for tackles in the attacking third. Manchester United star Mason Mount suffered another injury-hit campaign in 2024/25 | Credit: Getty Images If this shows anything, it is that Amorim has one of the best players in the last few years for pressing and hurrying defences in high areas to help win the ball back. Mount's Chelsea won the Champions League that season, with Thomas Tuchel's system showing he benefited massively from the 3-4-3 formation, something similar to what Amorim wants to use at Manchester United. It is no secret how big a fan the former Sporting boss is of Mount, having waxed lyrical about him in the past. Advertisement Rumours of an exit have been talked up in the media, but transfer specialist Fabrizio Romano has quickly put them to bed recently, admitting Mount is set to stay at the Theatre of Dreams in the bid to kick on with a full pre-season behind him. "We've had stories about Mason Mount maybe leaving Manchester United, about Mount maybe being involved in swap deals this summer," began Romano via his YouTube channel. Manchester United midfielder Mason Mount in action | Credit: Getty Images "Obviously we have plenty of time this summer to see things evolving and surprises… but as of today nearing the end of June, the clear intention of Mason Mount is to stay at Manchester United. Advertisement "Mount is planning to continue at Man Utd, to have an important pre-season, being well, fully fit, working under Ruben Amorim who has always [spoke highly] of Mount during his first season as Man Utd coach. So always showing his full confidence in the player. Now it's about being fit and being ready, but the intention of Mount is to stay at Manchester United." In FourFourTwo's view, Manchester United's squad needs trimming, and according to reports, Antony, Marcus Rashford, Jadon Sancho and Alejandro Garnacho will all leave the club this summer. This will help the England star no end, but he must stay fit. Despite not impressing on the whole, Mount starting over Garnacho in the Europa League final over Tottenham shows the faith Amorim has in the 26-year-old, and we feel he could be in for a huge campaign if he keeps injury-free across the summer.
Boston Globe
16-06-2025
- Health
- Boston Globe
Nina Kuscsik, marathoner who broke gender barriers, dies at 86
She ran more than 80 marathons raising three children for part of that time as a single mother, all while working as a patient representative at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Manhattan. Advertisement A photo provided by Chris Sheridan shows Nina Kuscsik during a 10-mile Road Runners Club of America race at Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx in 1971. CHRIS SHERIDAN/NYT But Kuscsik and other female runners first encountered fierce resistance from a male-dominated running establishment, which believed, along with many scientists and doctors, that women would risk infertility and even possibly lose their uteruses if they competed in marathons. Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up Kuscsik often said in response, 'I proved it over and over -- my uterus didn't fall out; I'm fine,' her daughter recalled in an interview. Still, female marathon runners encountered formidable roadblocks in the 1960s. When Roberta Gibb tried to enter the Boston Marathon in 1966, she was told in a letter by the race director that women were 'not physiologically capable' of running a marathon. To become the first woman to unofficially run Boston, Gibb hid behind bushes near the start. Then she jumped into the race wearing a hoodie over her long blond hair, along with her brother's Bermuda shorts, having trained for the marathon in cushioned nurse's shoes because running shoes had not yet been made for women. Advertisement In 1967, Kathrine Switzer was famously confronted on the Boston course by a race official who grabbed her and tried to tear off her racing bib, only to be body-blocked by Switzer's boyfriend. Kuscsik first ran the Boston Marathon in 1969 as a so-called 'bandit' -- without a bib or an official entry. By 1970, attitudes had begun to change when Fred Lebow, a showman who organized and promoted the inaugural New York City Marathon that year, sought women to compete in the race, which was then held entirely on hilly loops of Central Park. (It now traverses all five of the city's boroughs.) In New York, Kuscsik was the lone woman among the 127 entrants. Experiencing a cold and a stomach virus, she dropped out at 14 miles, concerned about the optics of 'look what happens when a woman runs.' In a 2004 interview, she told The New York Times that had she known how huge the race would become -- last year, it had more than 55,000 finishers, including 24,732 women and 120 nonbinary runners -- she 'would have gone back and finished.' She got another chance in New York in 1971. This time, Beth Bonner (2 hours, 55 minutes, 22 seconds) and Kuscsik (2:56.04) became the first American women to run 26.2 miles in under three hours. That same year, Kuscsik persuaded the Amateur Athletic Union, then the sport's governing body, to begin giving 'certain women' permission to run a full marathon. It was a dramatic shift from the 1960s, when the organization allowed women to run no farther than a mile and a half in sanctioned races. Advertisement 'Nina did all the AAU work; she was willing to go to all the meetings,' Switzer said in an interview. 'She would take medical data with her.' Kuscsik became the first official winner of the Boston Marathon in the women's category in April 1972. Change, though, came gradually on many fronts. An Olympic marathon for women would not be held until 1984, after Kuscsik and others had lobbied for its inclusion. After running the Boston Marathon three times as a 'bandit,' Kuscsik and seven other women were officially permitted to enter the race in 1972. Despite experiencing stomach distress again, she became the first acknowledged women's winner and received a laurel wreath as the victor, with her time of 3:10:26 entered into the race results. (BEGIN OPTIONAL TRIM.) Weeks later, in June, Kuscsik, Switzer and Lebow organized the first all-women road race, a 10-kilometer event in Central Park sponsored by the Crazylegs skin care company. Some criticized the Crazylegs Mini Marathon, as it was billed, as exploitative because Playboy bunnies mingled at the starting line and runners were encouraged to shave their legs with the sponsor's shaving cream beforehand. But women's sports historian Cat Ariail wrote in 2015 that the 10k event also showed that 'given an inclusive race, more women would participate in the sport.' (END OPTIONAL TRIM.) On Oct. 1, 1972, at the start of the New York City Marathon, Kuscsik joined a publicity stunt that would help eliminate the AAU's rule that women should start marathons separately from men, such as 10 minutes before or after. Advertisement At Lebow's behest, and with reporters having been alerted beforehand, Kuscsik and five other female runners sat down in protest when the starter's gun fired. They carried signs that called the AAU rule 'archaic.' and 'Midevil.' Ten minutes later, the women got up and began running. Kuscsik finished first among women, though 10 minutes were added to the protesters' finishing times. Kuscsik and others had filed a lawsuit challenging the separate-start requirement: It was discontinued later in 1972. Eventually, though, she came to agree with separate starts, which are the standard today for elite runners at major marathons, allowing women to receive more prominent coverage during television broadcasts. Kuscsik went on to win New York again in 1973 and Boston again in 1974, and also ran races as varied as a run to the top of the Empire State Building. Nina Louise Marmorino was born Jan. 2, 1939, in Brooklyn. Her father, George Marmorino, was a salesperson and president of the International Stamp Club of New York. Her mother, Louise (Tischer) Marmorino was a nurse. Nina followed her mother's path, obtaining her nurse's license, working at what is now the Brooklyn Hospital Center before her children were born. She was a patients' representative at Mount Sinai for about 40 years. Fascinated by the first sub-four-minute mile achieved in 1954 by Roger Bannister, a medical student from England, Kuscsik began running in 1967 while pregnant with her third child, doing laps around the block where the family lived in Huntington Station, New York. Her marriage in 1961 to Richard Kuscsik ended in the early 1970s, partly, she told the Times in 1973, because of her running. She lacked confidence, she said, until she began running and 'came out of my shell.' Advertisement In addition to her daughter, she is survived by her sons, Stephen and Timothy; a sister, Helen Flamini; a brother, George Marmorino; and two grandsons. (STORY CAN END HERE. OPTIONAL MATERIAL FOLLOWS.) Once she took up running, Kuscsik expressed impatience with those who questioned it. Several weeks after her 1972 victory in Boston, according to Runner's World magazine, a reporter asked her: 'Long-distance running isn't the most womanly thing a woman can do; all that sweating and grunting, so why do you do it?' She replied: 'Who says it is not the most feminine thing a woman can do and who says sweating or grunting isn't feminine? I have yet to meet a female runner who grunts. Although a lot of men do. Running is neither masculine or feminine. It's just healthy.' This article originally appeared in
