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Yahoo
13-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Naperville Nike store theft • Chicago officer's death • Deadly I-94 crash charges
CHICAGO - Three women were accused of stealing more than $300 in merchandise from a Nike store in suburban Naperville; an off-duty Chicago police officer died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound inside a police station; and a woman was charged in connection with a deadly crash on Interstate 94. These are the top stories in Fox 32's Week in Review. Three women stole more than $300 in merchandise from a Nike store in Naperville before leading police on a chase that ended in Chicago, prosecutors said. FULL STORY An off-duty Chicago police officer died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound inside a Near North Side station Thursday morning, sources told FOX 32. The 34-year-old officer was found dead around 2:25 a.m. in a restroom on the first floor of the 18th District police station. FULL STORY An Illinois woman was charged with driving under the influence during a crash on I-94 that killed one of her passengers early Sunday morning. FULL STORY A woman hired to clean houses was accused of stealing more than $20,000 worth of jewelry from clients in west suburban DuPage County, local prosecutors said. FULL STORY A 36-year-old man was arrested and charged in connection with the sexual assault of five women over nearly three years in Chicago. FULL STORY Actor Jay North, who was known for playing the title character Dennis Mitchell in the 1960s sitcom "Dennis the Menace," has died, according to reports. Forbes reported North has died at the age of 73, and that his passing was announced by his friend and former co-star Jeannie Russell. FULL STORY Changes to service standards for the U.S. Postal Service began this month, in an effort to provide "more reliable service" for Americans. Under the new approach, most will get their mail in the same service window, some will get it faster, and some a little slower. FULL STORY A 23-year-old waitress is recovering after she was beaten by two women inside a Pilsen restaurant last Friday night in an attack caught on surveillance video. FULL STORY A Chicago pilot was among six people killed when a helicopter carrying a family visiting from Spain crashed into the Hudson River in New York City on Thursday afternoon. FULL STORY A 24-year-old Chicago woman is facing an attempted murder charge after police say she shot a man early Saturday morning on the city's West Side before being arrested later that day in the north suburbs. FULL STORY
Yahoo
08-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
The Bold and the Beautiful Renewed for Three More Seasons
There's Hope For the Future, after all. CBS has renewed its long-running soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful for three more seasons, TVLine has learned. The renewal will take the daytime drama through Season 41, which will air during the 2027-28 television season. More from TVLine March Madness 2025: How to Watch Florida vs. Houston in the Men's National Championship Online The Chicken Sisters Officially Renewed for Season 2 at Hallmark Channel, David James Elliott Joins Cast Jay North, Dennis the Menace Star, Dead at 73 On March 23, The Bold and the Beautiful celebrated its 38th anniversary. Fun fact: Katherine Kelly Lang and John McCook, who play Eric Forrester and Brooke Logan, respectively, were part of the show's original cast. Per the logline, The Bold and the Beautiful 'follows the entangled lives, passionate loves and high-stakes dramas of the Forrester, Logan and Spencer families, set against the backdrop of the glamorous Los Angeles fashion world and the family's fashion house, Forrester Creations.' Familiar faces among the cast include All My Children/Smash alum Thorsten Kaye (as dressmaker Ridge Forrester) and General Hospital/Cobra Kai's Sean Kanan (as Deacon Sharpe). For a quick update on the show's latest happenings, check out our sister site The Bold and the Beautiful airs weekdays at 1:30/12:30c on CBS. Episodes stream on Paramount+, CBS .com and the CBS app. In related CBS Daytime news: The network recently announced that its new soap, Beyond the Gates, is doing far better in the ratings than The Talk, aka the chatfest that previously held its daily timeslot. Gates, the first new daytime drama in 25 years, is averaging 2.28 million total viewers (with Live+3 playback), a 78% improvement on what The Talk averaged in 2024. The first new daytime drama to hit our screens in 25 years is thus far averaging 2.28 million total viewers (with Live+3 playback), an improvement of 78% on what time slot predecessor The Talk averaged in 2024. Are you happy to hear that isn't going anywhere? Hit the comments with your thoughts! Best of TVLine Yellowjackets Mysteries: An Up-to-Date List of the Series' Biggest Questions (and Answers?) The Emmys' Most Memorable Moments: Laughter, Tears, Historical Wins, 'The Big One' and More 'Missing' Shows, Found! The Latest on Severance, Holey Moley, Poker Face, YOU, Primo, Transplant and 25+ Others
Los Angeles Times
07-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
Jay North, as Dennis the Menace, radiated an indelible brightness
As the title character in the midcentury sitcom 'Dennis the Menace,' Jay North, who died Sunday at 73, was among my first TV stars, even before I had a notion of what a TV star was. And he was definitely a star — billed over the adults who played his parents and perennially put-upon neighbor Mr. Wilson, memorably played by the great Joseph Kearns. I lived as a child on a double dose of Dennis, in the daily paper, where Hank Ketcham's character first saw life in 1951, and on TV. I suppose I was aware of the show, which ran originally from 1959 to 1963 and in reruns for many years thereafter — it's currently available on Peacock and sundry other platforms — before the comic, because I certainly watched TV before I could read. (Though, come to think of it, the comics may have been read to me — oh, the great days of the funny pages.) North's first television appearance was as a guest on the local L.A. kids' show 'Engineer Bill's Cartoon Express,' where he was spotted by a talent agent; small parts in various TV dramas and a couple of feature films led to 'Dennis,' where he was poured into the iconic costume — overalls, striped shirt, with a slingshot poking out of a back pocket and a cowlick sticking up like a car antenna from the back of his head. Dennis is 5 years old in the comic; the actor was 8 when he began to play him and would continue until he was 12, by which time he was allowed at least to trade the overalls for trousers. (I was enough of a baby TV critic even then to feel the cognitive dissonance.) The godfather of Calvin (of 'Calvin and Hobbes') and Bart Simpson, Dennis is, unlike them, very much a child; he has no adult thoughts, he's not an instrument for satire. He's not a smart-aleck, or a little devil. He is cheerful and serious, even about play. He's afraid of nothing, confident in his own ideas, the way many children are and most later learn not to be, and secure in the knowledge that everyone loves him, even those who don't particularly. Indeed, he's a good kid, even too good; his attempts to help lead to disasters (of a minor, correctable sort); things will get broken. One might say that where Dennis is concerned, no target of a good deed goes unpunished. (The brief opening credits picture him as an actual whirlwind.) In the comics, the character was occasionally made to sit in the corner (the gag was his explanation of whatever put him there), but was he ever punished on television? I would have to go through 146 episodes to find out, but I suspect not. If he was, it didn't stick. TV tots in that time were generally being prepped for adulthood; their misadventures led generally, and gently, to lessons learned. But there's no point in trying to teach Dennis anything; on the page and screen, the Mitchells, who are tolerant, if often tested parents, are wise enough to know they can't win — whatever they do, there's another panel coming the next day, another episode coming the next week, and Dennis will remain the agent of chaos he was created to be. For adult readers and viewers, he's a comical scamp; to a kid, he's an ideal. In my mind, he's a little mixed up with my grade-school friend Danny Shannon, who as a blond kid with a certain bold insouciance was closer to Dennis (and to North) than I'd ever be, and alongside whom I'd read paperback collections of the cartoon, the way that the young people of the 21st century might look at their phones, side by side. There was, of course, an unavoidable sell-by date for North's Dennis. David and Ricky Nelson could age across 'The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet,' but, like Bart Simpson, Dennis Mitchell, tied to a cartoon, could not. The actor's next and last television series was 'Maya,' in 1967, a semi-sequel to a 1966 film in which he also starred. It lasted 18 episodes; I know I watched it, but I can't tell you much other than that it was shot on location in India — unusual! — featured an elephant and co-starred Sajid Khan, America's first South Asian teen idol, if you don't count Sabu. (From Tiger Beat; 'The deep look of wonder behind Sajid's shining brown eyes is increasing every day. He can't believe the love and success shown him here in America. It's happened quickly with the arms of fans everywhere reaching out, clutching Sajid and telling him he's their newest fave.' But I digress.) North, too, had his moment as a teenage pinup. What clips I could find of the show reveal him as a dark-haired stringbean, looking little like his younger self, playing new, mature attitudes. North's post-'Maya' acting career was scattered and brief. Filming 'Dennis' had been by his own later account a bad experience — the aunt who was his on-set guardian was abusive — and he became involved with former 'Donna Reed Show' star Paul Petersen's A Minor Consideration, an advocacy group for recovering child actors. As an adult he did some cartoon voice work, including playing himself on an episode of 'The Simpsons,' but didn't seriously pursue a show business career. The range of expression required from him on 'Dennis the Menace' was not wide, and subtlety was never the point of the show. But it was North who brought the character from two into four dimensions, and he gave Dennis motion and music. The sound of his 'Hellll-o, Mr. Wilson' (and 'Good old Mr. Wilson' and 'Gee, thanks, Mr. Wilson') still lives in my ear. But he radiated a brightness and, well, menace distinct from any TV child actor of his time; he owned the role, while it fit him, and as much as anyone or anything, made the series a hit. Although there have been a couple of other Dennises since, most notably Mason Gamble, opposite Walter Matthau, in a 1993 theatrical release (and less notably Justin Cooper, opposite Don Rickles, in the 1998 straight-to-video 'Dennis the Menace Strikes Again'), I have not bothered to meet them. It would feel disloyal.
The Independent
07-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
Jay North, TV's original Dennis the Menace, dies aged 73
Jay North, a former child actor who starred as the towheaded mischief maker on Dennis the Menace, has died. He was 73. North died at his home in Lake Butler, Florida, on Sunday after battling colon cancer, according to his booking agent Bonnie Vent and longtime friend Laurie Jacobson. 'Our dear friend Jay North has been fighting cancer for a number of years and this morning at noon EST, Jay passed peacefully at home,' Jacobson wrote in a tribute on Facebook after speaking to his Dennis the Menace co-star Jeannie Russell. 'As many of his fans know, he had a difficult journey in Hollywood and after…but he did not let it define his life. 'He had a heart as big as a mountain, loved his friends deeply. He called us frequently and ended every conversation with 'I love you with all my heart.' And we loved him with all of ours. 'A life-long friend of Jon's, a brother to Jeanne and a dear friend to me, we will miss him terribly. He is out of pain now. His suffering is over. At last, he is at peace.' North was 6 when he was cast as the smiling troublemaker in the CBS sitcom adaptation of Hank Ketcham's popular comic strip that took place in an idyllic American suburb. He starred in four seasons from 1959. Often wearing a striped shirt and overalls, Dennis' mischievous antics frequently frustrated his retired next-door neighbor George Wilson, played by Joseph Kearns. Dennis' patient parents were played by Herbert Anderson and Gloria Henry. The show ran on Sunday nights until it was canceled in 1963. After that, it was a fixture for decades in syndication. Later, North appeared on TV in shows including The Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Lucy Show, My Three Sons, Lassie and The Simpsons, and in movies like Maya (1966), The Teacher (1974) and Dickie Robert: Former Child Star (2003). North is survived by his third wife, Cindy, and three stepdaughters.
Yahoo
07-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Original Dennis the Menace star Jay North dies aged 73
Jay North has died at the age of 73. The former child star shot to fame in the title role of the 1959 TV series 'Dennis the Menace' and continued to appear on screen in various roles until the late 1980s but passed away on Sunday (06.04.25) following a battle with cancer. A post shared on Facebook written on behalf of Jeannie Russell - who played Margaret in 'Dennis the Menace' - read: "Jeanne Russell just called us with terribly sad, but not unexpected news. Our dear friend JAY NORTH has been fighting cancer for a number of years and this morning at noon EST, Jay passed peacefully at home." Following his rise to fame, Jay - who is survived by his wife Cindy Hackney and his three stepdaughters - appeared on programmes such as 'My Three Sons ' and 'The Lucy Show'. He also appeared on 'Here Comes the Grump' and voiced the character of Bamm-Bamm Rubble on 'The Flintstones' for a period of time but retired from acting altogether after more dramatic roles failed to materialise. In 1990, he learned that fellow former child star Paul Petersen had taken his own life so sought therapy over the abuse he had suffered as a child in Hollywood, and joined the organisation A Minor Consideration. Three years later, the release of the 'Dennis the Menace' film prompted media interest in what became of Jay and he eventually opened up about the difficulties he had faced. The post continued: "As many of his fans know, he had a difficult journey in Hollywood and he did not let it define his life. He had a heart as big as a mountain, loved his friends deeply. He called us frequently and ended every conversation with "I love you with all my heart." And we loved him with all of ours. A life-long friend of Jon [Provost], a brother to Jeanne and a dear friend to me, we will miss him terribly. He is out of pain now. His suffering is over. At last he is at peace." Jay made his final credited appearance in a 1999 episode of 'The Simpsons' and moved to Florida, where he started up a new career as a correctional officer but still made appearances at various events to meet with fans. In 1999, he reflected to E! News: "I am so happy that I was able to have such a positive impact on people's lives. I'm going to write my autobiography and then I'm just going to live a contented, happy life here in Lake Butler with the people I love, and kind of just vanish into the mists of time."
