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PEOPLE & ARTSSaturday 18 April 2015
Actress Kate Mulgrew breaks with her past in new memoir
LAURI NEFF she was reunited with the In this Sept. 15, 2014 file photo, actress Kate Mulgrew attends the “Netflix” launch party in Paris,
Associated Press daughter she gave up France. Mulgrew released “Born with Teeth: A Memoir,” on April 14.
NEW YORK (AP) — The big- for adoption at age 22 —
gest challenge for Kate and reconnecting with her Associated Press
Mulgrew in writing about now-husband. Mulgrew
giving up her daughter for says she ended the memoir was developing Alzheim- As for the title of the book, that the big cats there used
adoption was getting be- there because she saw it as er’s disease. Mulgrew, 59, was born with their teeth to kill their prey
yond herself. “the perfect resting point in She says when it got to be teeth: two on the top and quickly.
“I’m Irish. We’re private happiness.” too much, she’d take a two on the bottom. She “They kill instantly because
people,” says Mulgrew. “I had found my daughter break. says, however, that it’s they’re not interested in
“We keep it close to the after 21 years of searching “I’d stop writing. I’d go out also symbolic of how she’s torture but they’re inter-
vest. We keep it quiet. for her and the great love to the beach and I’d sit on made her way in the world. ested in survival. They kill to
That’s how I was raised.” of my life, Tim Hagan, who the sand and I’d cry for Noting that she had just re- eat and only when they’re
But Mulgrew, who played had dropped out of my life two hours, and I’d go back turned from a trip to Africa hungry and that’s the met-
Capt. Kathryn Janeway on for five years, came back in and go on. That’s what I where she went on safari, aphor. I used my teeth the
“Star Trek: Voyager” and into my life and both hap- think it is to write a memoir.” Mulgrew said she observed same way.”q
now plays Galina “Red” pened in the same week.”
Reznikov on Netflix’s “Or- She also writes about de-
ange is the New Black,” ciding to become an ac-
says she has no regrets tress at age 12, with encour-
about what she calls the agement from her mother,
loss of privacy in telling that after Mulgrew brought a
story and other personal group of nuns at her Cath-
highs and lows in her new olic grammar school to
book, “Born With Teeth: A tears with her reading of
Memoir” (Little, Brown and a 50-page poem about a
Co.). World War I romance.
“Without it I couldn’t have She recalls that her mother
shared what might be met said to her afterward, “’You
by some people as a very can either be a mediocre
important piece of infor- poet or a great actress.
mation; not only the expe- Now which do you think
rience of it but how I sur- you’d rather be?’ And that
vived and how I went on,” was the switch,” Mulgrew
says the Emmy-nominated says.
actress. She shares painful mo-
The book, released this ments as well, including the
week, follows her life from childhood deaths of two of
growing up in an uncon- her sisters, the breakup of
ventional Irish-Catholic her first marriage and the
Iowa home to 1999, when first sign that her mother
Spanish language ‘Sabado Gigante’ ends 53-year run
GISELA SALOMON show also is broadcast Univision did not say why The network said Don Fran- panic families in the United
Associated Press to more than a dozen it was ending “Sabado Gi- cisco, whose real name
MIAMI (AP) — Television’s countries throughout Latin gante,” nor what kind of is Mario Kreutzberger, will States, sometimes with sev-
longest-running variety America. programming will fill its slot. continue to work on special
show is calling it a wrap af- programs and a telethon eral generations gathered
ter 53 years. that has raised hundreds of
The Miami-based Univi- millions of dollars over the around the television set on
sion network said Friday years to benefit disabled
the popular “Sabado Gi- children. Saturday evenings.
gante” will end its weekly The details of the decision
broadcast on Sept. 19. will be revealed by Kreutz- Guests have included His-
Created by its Chilean- berger on the broadcast
born host, the boisterous this Saturday, according panic artists such as Enrique
presenter with a huge grin to a network spokesperson
known as Don Francisco, who was not authorized to Iglesias, Shakira, Paulina
the weekly three-hour be quoted by name.
show “Sabado Gigante” “Sabado Gigante,” which Rubio and Gloria Trevi, and
long has been Univision’s means “Giant Saturday”
most popular program. in English, aired for the first U.S. presidents George W.
With an average of 2.2 mil- time in Chile in 1962, and
lion viewers, the show re- moved to Miami in 1986. Bush and Barack Obama.
mains No. 1 on Saturday The variety show mixing hu-
nights among Hispanics mor, amateur talent con- Latin American politicians
in the U.S. and was up this tests, celebrity interviews
season among younger and human-interest sto- also have appeared on
viewers, according to the ries went on to become a
Nielson company. The weekly staple for many His- the program.
In a release from the net-
work, Alberto Ciurana,
president of Programming
and Content for Univision
Communications, Inc.,
called the 74-year-old
Kreutzberger “one of the
most beloved and leg-
endary entertainers in the
In this photo taken on Feb. 3, 2012, Chilean born host of the Uni- world” and an “innova-
vision network variety show “Sabado Gigante,” Mario Kreutz-
berger, popularly known as Don Francisco, poses on the set of tive and inspirational force
his show in Miami. Associated Press
in the television industry
throughout his career.”q
PEOPLE & ARTSSaturday 18 April 2015
Actress Kate Mulgrew breaks with her past in new memoir
LAURI NEFF she was reunited with the In this Sept. 15, 2014 file photo, actress Kate Mulgrew attends the “Netflix” launch party in Paris,
Associated Press daughter she gave up France. Mulgrew released “Born with Teeth: A Memoir,” on April 14.
NEW YORK (AP) — The big- for adoption at age 22 —
gest challenge for Kate and reconnecting with her Associated Press
Mulgrew in writing about now-husband. Mulgrew
giving up her daughter for says she ended the memoir was developing Alzheim- As for the title of the book, that the big cats there used
adoption was getting be- there because she saw it as er’s disease. Mulgrew, 59, was born with their teeth to kill their prey
yond herself. “the perfect resting point in She says when it got to be teeth: two on the top and quickly.
“I’m Irish. We’re private happiness.” too much, she’d take a two on the bottom. She “They kill instantly because
people,” says Mulgrew. “I had found my daughter break. says, however, that it’s they’re not interested in
“We keep it close to the after 21 years of searching “I’d stop writing. I’d go out also symbolic of how she’s torture but they’re inter-
vest. We keep it quiet. for her and the great love to the beach and I’d sit on made her way in the world. ested in survival. They kill to
That’s how I was raised.” of my life, Tim Hagan, who the sand and I’d cry for Noting that she had just re- eat and only when they’re
But Mulgrew, who played had dropped out of my life two hours, and I’d go back turned from a trip to Africa hungry and that’s the met-
Capt. Kathryn Janeway on for five years, came back in and go on. That’s what I where she went on safari, aphor. I used my teeth the
“Star Trek: Voyager” and into my life and both hap- think it is to write a memoir.” Mulgrew said she observed same way.”q
now plays Galina “Red” pened in the same week.”
Reznikov on Netflix’s “Or- She also writes about de-
ange is the New Black,” ciding to become an ac-
says she has no regrets tress at age 12, with encour-
about what she calls the agement from her mother,
loss of privacy in telling that after Mulgrew brought a
story and other personal group of nuns at her Cath-
highs and lows in her new olic grammar school to
book, “Born With Teeth: A tears with her reading of
Memoir” (Little, Brown and a 50-page poem about a
Co.). World War I romance.
“Without it I couldn’t have She recalls that her mother
shared what might be met said to her afterward, “’You
by some people as a very can either be a mediocre
important piece of infor- poet or a great actress.
mation; not only the expe- Now which do you think
rience of it but how I sur- you’d rather be?’ And that
vived and how I went on,” was the switch,” Mulgrew
says the Emmy-nominated says.
actress. She shares painful mo-
The book, released this ments as well, including the
week, follows her life from childhood deaths of two of
growing up in an uncon- her sisters, the breakup of
ventional Irish-Catholic her first marriage and the
Iowa home to 1999, when first sign that her mother
Spanish language ‘Sabado Gigante’ ends 53-year run
GISELA SALOMON show also is broadcast Univision did not say why The network said Don Fran- panic families in the United
Associated Press to more than a dozen it was ending “Sabado Gi- cisco, whose real name
MIAMI (AP) — Television’s countries throughout Latin gante,” nor what kind of is Mario Kreutzberger, will States, sometimes with sev-
longest-running variety America. programming will fill its slot. continue to work on special
show is calling it a wrap af- programs and a telethon eral generations gathered
ter 53 years. that has raised hundreds of
The Miami-based Univi- millions of dollars over the around the television set on
sion network said Friday years to benefit disabled
the popular “Sabado Gi- children. Saturday evenings.
gante” will end its weekly The details of the decision
broadcast on Sept. 19. will be revealed by Kreutz- Guests have included His-
Created by its Chilean- berger on the broadcast
born host, the boisterous this Saturday, according panic artists such as Enrique
presenter with a huge grin to a network spokesperson
known as Don Francisco, who was not authorized to Iglesias, Shakira, Paulina
the weekly three-hour be quoted by name.
show “Sabado Gigante” “Sabado Gigante,” which Rubio and Gloria Trevi, and
long has been Univision’s means “Giant Saturday”
most popular program. in English, aired for the first U.S. presidents George W.
With an average of 2.2 mil- time in Chile in 1962, and
lion viewers, the show re- moved to Miami in 1986. Bush and Barack Obama.
mains No. 1 on Saturday The variety show mixing hu-
nights among Hispanics mor, amateur talent con- Latin American politicians
in the U.S. and was up this tests, celebrity interviews
season among younger and human-interest sto- also have appeared on
viewers, according to the ries went on to become a
Nielson company. The weekly staple for many His- the program.
In a release from the net-
work, Alberto Ciurana,
president of Programming
and Content for Univision
Communications, Inc.,
called the 74-year-old
Kreutzberger “one of the
most beloved and leg-
endary entertainers in the
In this photo taken on Feb. 3, 2012, Chilean born host of the Uni- world” and an “innova-
vision network variety show “Sabado Gigante,” Mario Kreutz-
berger, popularly known as Don Francisco, poses on the set of tive and inspirational force
his show in Miami. Associated Press
in the television industry
throughout his career.”q
