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Annette Funicello Dies
Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 5:43 pm
by dales
Annette Funicello, the dark-haired darling of TV's “The Mickey Mouse Club” in the 1950s who further cemented her status as a pop-culture icon in the '60s by teaming with Frankie Avalon in a popular series of “beach” movies, died Monday. She was 70.
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/ ... 9102.story
Re: Annette Funicello Dies
Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 5:49 pm
by oldr_n_wsr
RIP Annette. I do remember you from the MM Club.
Sucks getting old.
Re: Annette Funicello Dies
Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 6:54 pm
by Lord Jim
Sorry to hear about this, she was only 70.
Re: Annette Funicello Dies
Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 7:51 pm
by Gob
First Thatcher, now Funicello, can the day bring any more bad news?
Re: Annette Funicello Dies
Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 8:20 pm
by Rick
She had a very long battle with MS...
Re: Annette Funicello Dies
Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 8:27 pm
by Lord Jim
25 years...
She developed it pretty late, at 45...
Re: Annette Funicello Dies
Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 10:48 pm
by Big RR
I can still remember when she started getting those bumps in her t-shirt on the Mickey Mouse Club, a life changing moment for me. RIP Annette.
Re: Annette Funicello Dies
Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 11:14 pm
by MajGenl.Meade
Not to be nit picking but should it not be "Annette Funicello Dead"? Everyone dies but not everyone is dead. Oh OK it is nit-picking.
At 62, the age of 70 seems a lot younger than it used to. Mickey Mouse Club and those awful beach movies were a U.S. phenomenon that I believe (hope) had no effect whatever on the civilized world (rather like the Three Stooges and Jerry Lewis), but I suppose they must be iconic in the USA. She was brave in the face of adversity.
Re: Annette Funicello Dies
Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 11:52 pm
by Guinevere
Gob wrote:First Thatcher, now Funicello, can the day bring any more bad news?
Lilly Pulitzer
Re: Annette Funicello Dies
Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2013 12:05 am
by MajGenl.Meade
I suppose you expect some kind of prize?
Re: Annette Funicello Dies
Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2013 12:14 am
by Lord Jim
The Pulitzer I best remember is Roxanne...
Noted for her unique saxophone playing style...
Re: Annette Funicello Dies
Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2013 12:18 am
by dales
MajGenl.Meade wrote:Not to be nit picking but should it not be "Annette Funicello Dead"? Everyone dies but not everyone is dead. Oh OK it is nit-picking....
I wished to mirror what happened to Ms. Thatcher in my headline.
Re: Annette Funicello Dies
Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2013 1:01 am
by rubato
Gob wrote:First Thatcher, now Funicello, can the day bring any more bad news?
Les Blank died as well.
Worse loss.
yrs,
rubato