Entertainment Stories from July 17, 2025 (Change date)
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Stephen Colbert says CBS is ending his ‘Late Show’ in May 2026Jul 17, 2025 7:37 pm - CBS is axing “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” in May 2026, the host told an audience at a taping Thursday. The announcement came two days after Colbert spoke out aga...
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‘This makes it real’: Traveling replica of Vietnam Veterans Memorial and education center open through Sunday in AntiochJul 17, 2025 5:43 pm - The Vietnam War ended 50 years ago but the emotional toll for those who lost a relative, friend or colleague was rekindled Thursday with the opening of The Wall That Heals in Antioch.
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‘A lasting symbol of strength for women’: Old friend shares memories of Connie FrancisJul 17, 2025 5:30 pm - Ron Onesti grew up listening to Connie Francis and became friends with the iconic pop singer after persuading her to play his St. Charles theater. “I’m an old soul, and her music not only represented the era, but also represented the strength of a woman in a man’s world at that time,” Onesti said.
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‘Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight’ shows war through one child’s extraordinary eyesJul 17, 2025 2:04 pm - “Are we racists?” That’s the blunt question posed by Bobo, a white girl living on a farm in Africa, to her horrified mother. It feels thoroughly organic when voiced by Lexi Venter, an extraordinary first-time actor who gives one of the more compelling child performances in recent memory in “Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight.”
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Embeth Davidtz drew on her childhood in South Africa to adapt memoir for filmJul 17, 2025 12:53 pm - In 1974, when it seemed as though everyone was leaving South Africa, Embeth Davidtz’s family was going back. And it’s where she’d return decades later to direct her first film, “Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight,” an adaptation of Alexandra Fuller’s memoir about growing up during the Bush War in Zimbabwe.
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Geneva History Museum to host historic home tourJul 17, 2025 12:31 pm - The Geneva History Museum is hosting an historic home tour of four houses and St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in the downtown historic district, which offers a rare opportunity to walk through the houses.
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A hot dog on your deep dish? Lou Malnati’s and Portillo’s pair up for Chicago Dog Deep DishJul 17, 2025 11:44 am - Hot dog-topped deep dish pizza? Yep, it’s a thing thanks to Lou Malnati’s and Portillo’s.
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Movie review: ‘Smurfs’ has Rihanna but not much elseJul 17, 2025 10:44 am - “Smurfs” gets as much mileage as it can from its pop singer-voice actor Rihanna, who supplies a new song, giving a half-hearted injection of star power to an otherwise uninspired, modestly scaled, kiddo-friendly cartoon feature.
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Star-crossed singer Connie Francis, whose hits included 'Pretty Little Baby,' dead at 87Jul 17, 2025 8:01 am - Connie Francis, the wholesome pop star of the 1950s and 1960s whose hits include “Pretty Little Baby” and who would later serve as an ironic title for a personal life filled with heartbreak and tragedy, has died at age 87.
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‘Eddington’ is a satire about our broken brains that might re-break your brainJul 17, 2025 5:30 am - You might need to lie down for a bit after “Eddington.” Ari Aster’s latest nightmare vision is sure to divide (along which lines, I can’t fathom), but there is one thing I think everyone will be able to agree on: It is an experience that will leave you asking “WHAT?”
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