Jay North, Child Star Who Played ‘Dennis the Menace,’ Dies at 73
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Jay North, Child Star Who Played ‘Dennis the Menace,’ Dies at 73

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Jay North, who played the well-meaning, trouble-causing protagonist of the popular CBS sitcom “Dennis the Menace” from 1959 to 1963, died on Sunday at his home in Lake Butler, Fla. He was 73. His death was confirmed by Laurie Jacobson, a friend of…

Jules Feiffer, Acerbic Cartoonist, Writer and Much Else, Dies at 95
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Jules Feiffer, Acerbic Cartoonist, Writer and Much Else, Dies at 95

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Around 1980, the movie producer Robert Evans recruited Mr. Feiffer to write the screenplay for Robert Altman’s “Popeye.” Mr. Feiffer patterned his script after the Segar newspaper strip, not the animated adaptations made by the Fleischer brothers in the 1930s and ’40s. When…