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Article content Four months after being born in a hospital elevator, Nikko Takahashi was sure looking cute nestled between the arms of two Toronto paramedics who helped deliver him. Recommended Videos Dad Rainer Takahashi says the adorable tot came into the world on Aug. 13 just a little bit early, which meant it was a good thing that the first responders were on hand. “My wife (Danielle) went into labour and it happened very quickly that we didn’t have time to go the hospital so therefore we called 911,” Rainer said on Thursday. “The (paramedics) came. Fortunately, they were able to get us to the hospital just in time. Our son was born in a hospital elevator. We actually didn’t make it to the birthing unit. So we’re very thankful for everything they did for us. Just a very exciting entry into the world.” On Thursday afternoon, family and the first responders were reunited during a special event at the Toronto Emergency Services Joint Headquarters. In yet another cute moment, older sister Isabelle Takahashi, 4, politely presented Toronto paramedics Jacob Pettigrew and Scott Bryant with thank-you cards. “It’s a really unique opportunity — I think one of the parts of the job that can be sort of limiting is not knowing what happens to people on the other side,” said Pettigrew, a 10-year paramedic vet. “You meet people who are in a compromising position and you’re rooting for them but you don’t know how things work out in the longer term. And so to be able to see Nikko here today and healthy, it’s great. Again, you just always leave with questions. You hope for the best but you don’t know. Things can just go a million different ways. So it’s just nice to see.” Added Bryant, a 16-year-old paramedic vet: “This is great. It certainly kinds of reinvigorates my career as to help remind me why I’m doing this. We very rarely find out what happens to the patients we care for. Usually what will happen is we drop them off at the hospital and unfortunately that’s the end. Usually we don’t find out what happens. So having an event like this is quite exciting.” Rainer was appreciative of what the paramedics did for his family the day of his son’s birth. “I can’t thank them enough,” he said. “They kept us calm. They were so professional. I mean, I was losing my mind, and they just kept it all together and got everyone there safely and on time. So I’m very grateful for that. Unfortunately, I wasn’t even there for the birth — that’s how quickly it happened. I was parking the car.” RECOMMENDED VIDEONAPLES, Fla. — Narin An handled the windy conditions with a hot putter on Thursday, making four straight birdies around the turn and finishing with an 8-under 64 for a one-shot lead in the CME Group Tour Championship. At stake for the 60-player field is a $4 million prize to the winner , the largest single-day payoff in women’s golf. Nelly Korda already has won more than that during her sterling season of seven wins. Now she faces an eight-shot deficit over the next three days at Tiburon Golf Club if she wants to end her year in fitting fashion. Korda, coming off a victory last week, couldn’t make amends for her three bogeys and had to settle for an even-par 72. She has come from behind in four of her victories, and still has 54 holes ahead of her. But it has made the task that much tougher. Everything felt easy for An, a 28-year-old from South Korea who has never won on the LPGA and has never cracked the top 10 in any of the 16 majors she has played. “Today my putt really good,” An said. “The speed was good and the shape was good. I just try to focus a little bit more.” She had a one-shot lead over Angel Yin, who shot 30 on the back nine , including an eagle on the par-5 17th hole that most players can easily reach in two. Former U.S. Women’s Open champion Allisen Corpuz and Marina Alex were at 66, with Lydia Ko leading the group at 67. Despite the wind so typical along the Gulf Coast of Florida, 27 players — nearly half the field — shot in the 60s. “It’s a good head start for the big ol’ prize we get at the end of the week,” Yin said. Whoever wins this week is assured of breaking the 17-year-old LPGA record for most money earned in season. The record was set by Lorena Ochoa in 2007 at $4,364,994, back when the total prize money was about half of what it is now. Ochoa earned $1 million for winning the Tour Championship in 2007. The opening round followed a big night of awards for the LPGA Tour , where Korda officially picked up her first award as player of the year, which she clinched earlier this month . Ko was recognized for her big year, highlighted by an Olympic gold medal that put her into the LPGA Hall of Fame. She regained plenty of focus for the opening round on a course where she won just two years ago. “The course isn’t easy,” Ko said. “I set a goal of shooting 3 under today, and somebody shot 8 under. I was like, ‘OK, maybe I need to make a few more birdies.’ It’s a course that can get away from you as much as you can shoot some low scores, so I’m just trying to stick to my game plan and go from there.” Also in the group at 67 was Albane Valenzuela of Switzerland, already celebrating a big year with her debut in the Solheim Cup and her first appearance in the Tour Championship. She made a late run at her first LPGA title last week at Pelican Golf Club, and kept up her form. And she can see the finish line, which is appealing. “I everyone is looking at that $4 million price tag,” Valenzuela said. “I try not to look too much at the result. I feel like in the past I’ve always been stuck on results, and ultimately all I can do is control my own round, my own energy, my own commitment. “It’s the last week of the year. It’s kind of the bonus week. No matter what, everyone is having a paycheck.”
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There’s only one more episode of as we know it remaining. The currently airing season 5B was announced to be the final season in the Paramount Network flagship series. But since then, with fan-favorite stars and has been in talks, leaving the state of TV’s No. 1 series up in the air. But if one thing is for certain, next week is sure to define the legacy of the Yellowstone ranch at the heart of the show. Related Stories The penultimate episode that aired on Sunday, “Give the World Away,” was written by co-creator and directed by executive producer Michael Friedman. The , who recurs on the series as Texas horse trainer Travis. This week, Sheridan returned as Travis when he received a visit from Beth Dutton (Reilly) at his Texas ranch (which was filmed at Sheridan’s real-life Bosque Ranch). Beth wants to ensure that Travis is doing right by the Yellowstone, and the visit from the daughter of (departed star ) brings viewers into Travis’ world where he hosts strip poker games that include his girlfriend, played by guest star , shows off his horse-riding prowess and, in the end, delivers Beth and the Yellowstone the big, fat check the struggling ranch needed. “It was wonderful to see Taylor have fun in a way that is such an incorporation of life imitating, art imitating life in terms of it being shot in a place that he has built,” executive producer Christina Voros, who directed the four earlier episodes of season 5B, tells of the visit to Bosque Ranch. Voros also adds that Hadid, who now lives in Texas, was the only person eyed for the role to play his onscreen girlfriend. “[Taylor is] known as this writer of these great American Western TV sagas, but he’s also a cowboy and a tremendous horseman, and spends as much time doing that part of his personality and his life as he does writing the stories about that.” Below in a chat with , Voros talks more about Sheridan’s onscreen cowboy sendoff, reveals how they filmed those huge Yellowstone ranch scenes while avoiding any big spoilers leaking, and unpacks the Dutton family chess moves made this episode to tease how they will come together in the end: “It all makes sense looking backwards. But looking forward, you never would have seen it coming.” *** I was there a lot, mostly because we were getting so close to the end and everyone wanted to be there as much as possible. Michael Friedman is a dear friend and a tremendous director; he’s been part of Taylor [Sheridan]’s close, creative family from the very beginning. He’s been involved in the show since the first season and has been a producer and post-production guru/storyteller through all of Taylor’s shows. He started producing this past year on [Sheridan shows] and , and then did this episode of . It was such a wonderful homecoming to have him directing since he’s been part of the show’s DNA from the very beginning. It was a little hectic [for me when filming], because we were cross-boarding. Because I had directed the first four episodes, I hadn’t had any time to get ahead of stuff that was coming because we didn’t really shoot things in order; Michael did this episode, and then we still had parts of episodes 509, 510 and 511 that we still had to shoot. So I was able to use this as a little bit of prep time but I wanted to be on set as much as possible, partially because it was such a wonderful, full-circle moment with Michael and also because it’s such a magnificent centerpiece of the season. The elements of [this episode] 513 are everything that draws people to . It’s big, it’s cinematic. It’s horses. It’s emotion. It’s all of the poetry that the show has become known for really beautifully showcased. This was one of the big examples. There are elements throughout the season, like in Jamie’s [ ] world where there are press conferences where that also came into play. But yes, this was the biggest swing we took at asking: How do we bring in all the wonderful background performers that we really need to be able to tell these stories, and how do we do it in a way where no one is going home at night and accidentally let it slip about something they saw on set? So Michael and his first AD on the episode, Kristina Massie, did a really remarkable job in terms of finding the ways to divert the attention of folks who were coming in for background, and it had more to do with strategy in how it was shot. They were very smart about what absolutely had to be done in front of hundreds of extras and what could be shot in such a way where, when it’s cut together, it would feel like all of those people were there, but in fact, at that moment, they were not. This is probably the shining example of the lengths that everyone went through, and Michael and Kristina making sure that the secrets to the story stayed locked. That had to do with what the production sound sounds like in the show versus what it sounded like when it was being recorded, and not allowing the extras to hear everything that was being said. I believe there was also an alternate script that was used in some of the wider shots that was absent of information. Then in the closer coverage, they recorded the real track. For Colby’s, we called it “Colby’s arrival.” And for Sarah’s, it was “Sarah arrives.” We continued working with the term “arrival,” because it’s so innocuous that you could read it on a call sheet and no one would ever think that there was anything wrong. In the show, Travis runs Bosque Ranch, which is Taylor’s ranch in Weatherford, Texas. I actually wasn’t there when they filmed those scenes. A couple of those scenes were the very last scenes [filmed] of the show. They were shot in August and I was already prepping on [the ]. But as far as the role of Travis, it was wonderful to see Taylor — again, in a full-circle moment — have fun in a way that is such an incorporation of life imitating, art imitating life in terms of it being shot in a place that he has built. He’s known as this writer of these great American Western TV sagas, but he’s also a cowboy and a tremendous horseman, and spends as much time doing that part of his personality and his life as he does writing the stories about that. So it was kind of wonderful to see the collision of the fictional world he’s created with the actual world he’s created as himself and as a man and as a horseman. To see those two things braided together was really fun. It all comes back to his sort of obsessions with authenticity. You can’t teach an actor to get on a horse and do magnificent things on horseback. He’s a firm believer that there are more cowboys who can act than there are actors who can cowboy. So he’s given roles to so many people. You see it in the Four Sixes work [on ]: Dusty Burson is a tremendous cowboy and a pretty decent actor; Kory Pounds is an incredible cowboy, and a pretty decent actor! He’s done this with my husband [Jason Owen], who has been a wrangler on the show for many years. Taylor gave him a part as a detective — he’s the sidekick to the main detective. So he is the detective in the opening of the who shows Kayce (Luke Grimes) where John Dutton (Kevin Costner) has been shot. One of the consistent things about Taylor is that he understands how fun it is to be a part of something like this. I think he’s looking for opportunities to bring on some of these cowboys because they are who they are, and you can’t get more authentic than that. But it’s also really fun to say, “Let’s give [ actor] Cole Palfreyman, another one of the wranglers and horseman that Taylor has worked with for years, a part on [Sheridan’s Paramount+ series] .” He does that a lot. I remember back in season four during COVID, there were a lot of crew members he gave parts to. My key grip for years, Craig Sullivan, was cast as a glass repair guy. He’s done it from the very beginning and I think in an episode like this, there’s even more reason to cast the people you know as horsemen as horsemen. All I know is that when that part was cast it wasn’t like there were casting teams. By the time I knew it was cast, we knew it was her. So I don’t know when that decision was made, but again, it goes back to sort of keeping it in this family. She was great, and also could not be a lovelier human being. You bring in someone who is a celebrity in their own right and sometimes you are just floored with how marvelously kind and down to earth they really are, and she was really that. That’s a hard question, because the story is the story and the scripts are the scripts. I think one of the things Taylor does, and has done from the beginning of the show, is that there are issues with characters and thoughts that come up and whether they are red herrings or whether they are part of a shorter storytelling element versus a longer one, it happens organically. Going from season to season, the writing comes through him and out onto the page. It’s not something that has been strategically plotted out on Excel spreadsheets from the beginning. So I think every season what the story is and what the threat is and what the drama is, is coming out of the characters themselves as he writes him. This season is not about Jamie as a father; this season is about Jamie as a son. Jamie is usually the smartest guy in the room, and I think he has succeeded in staying afloat through all of these ups and downs, and potential near-finalities of his life as a politician, by the insight of, in many cases, the women around him. The people who have believed in him at times when he hasn’t believed in himself. But ultimately, he is a master spokesperson. He is a master at rhetoric. Once he knows what to run with, he’s very good at spinning that web, and he’s always been good at spinning that web. So I think what you see here is an example of finding that lifeline and spinning something very elaborate out of it that may give him the room to pull himself from a place that we didn’t think he had a lifeline from. This hasn’t historically been a show about happy endings ( ), but also, Taylor has taken and he has turned it into an intergenerational story. There are complexities that exist by virtue of doing that that I think make the world of the Dutton story so much richer and more interesting. ( ) I think it’s hard to say how much to read into it because there are so many threads dangled between these worlds that one could follow the path of. So I think the context of , within the historical saga that Taylor has been creating, is sort of the centerpiece. But the storylines are extending from it in many different ways. You many have stumped me! I think what you are feeling about it all seeming to happen so fast and how we’re at the final episode is testament to how many different ways things could go. I also think it’s testament to how much there is to wait for in the finale. Crafting a final episode to a six-season arc is something really difficult to do, and I think what people have to look forward to, in some ways, is that as much ground is covered in the finale as it has been the moments leading up to it. It has that kind of weight and complexity that a story like this deserves to go out with. I was surprised and I didn’t see it coming. I may have said this in one of our earlier interviews, but I think the conclusion to any great story is both surprising and inevitable, but you don’t realize it was inevitable until you get there. It all makes sense looking backward. But looking forward, you never would have seen it coming. That’s the magic place in storytelling and I think Taylor has done that with the finale. When I read the script, it took my breath away. And I’m someone who has been living in this world since season one. I know the characters intimately, I know the creator well, I know the story better than any story in my life, and I was sort of kicking myself that I didn’t see it coming. But, I didn’t see it coming. Let’s talk about Luke for a second. Because I think you are right: I think this season for him was magnificent. I think what Taylor wrote for him was magnificent, but I also think that Kayce has been the quiet hero in his father’s shadows from the very beginning. And there’s something that’s happened this season, that we talked about earlier, where in the absence of the patriarch everyone has to step up. And in the absence of Kevin [Costner], the rest of the cast really had a large stage to fill, and they did such a phenomenal job stepping in to fill that space, and Luke especially. So much was weighed on his shoulders this season ,and to be able to step into that and carry the story and the legacy in the way that he has, it’s been beautiful to watch. The burden from a performance standpoint that he has shouldered — he has done it so deftly and effortlessly — it’s a profound, profound performance from him this season and I love that people are in love with where his character has gone this season, because I am too. 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