How many people here know who Annette Funicello is?

[Thtwudbeme]

?

[Swede]

1. Didn't she get whacked on season 3 of the Sopranos?

:)

[Crazy Guggenheim]

2. I do.

[enigmatic]

3. I do!

She had 2 really big things going for her, plus she was a "Beach Party" staple..

[Spider Jerusalem]

9. 2 really big things in a tight sweater...

[flakey_foont]

4. A Mousketeer

and Frankie Avalon's main squeeze in the beach movies

[Mikimouse]

5. Better question would be, who doesn't know?...

Ok, I'm an old timer and I remember her very well.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. I know who she is....

Do you want us to say, or are you just asking?

:shrug:

[MrScorpio]

7. M-i-c-K-e-y

[KitchenWitch]

8. I do

[Poiuyt]

10. I was on an airplane with her parents once

Then I saw Annette looking for them at baggage.

I guess that makes me pretty special!

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

11. Sure I do!

One of the original Mouseketeers, was in all those 60s beach movies w/ Frankie Avalon, and for those of us who were kids in the 70s, she did those Skippy peanut butter commercials, too.

[HEyHEY]

12. Yeah, the "M" and the "E" started to bend around the sides

[mark11727]

18. "Stand By Me" --- yup.

[bridgit]

13. ee-yeah...

http://www.mgm.com/title_title.do?title_star=BEACHBLA

[Floogeldy]

14. Is this a test?

[Whoa_Nelly]

15. Saw a yellow page Tabloid with her on it today

while at the grocery store. Showed her as having been in a car wreck...possibly. Anyway, last I heard, Annette was suffering from MS, and it has been pretty devastating.

http://www.calfund.org/8/giving_funicello.php
Annette Funicello Fund For Neurological Disorders

[Left Is Write]

23. Yes, she's had it for years.

I saw the rag magazine at the store, but didn't stop to look at it.

[Fleshdancer]

16. I do. n/t

[yellowdogintexas]

17. M I C K E Y M O U S E..C L U B!!!!!!!!!!!

and the little mousketeer ears and
Beach Movies
Romance with Paul Anka
Severe MS
SKIPPY

thought she was so cool.

[njdemocrat106]

19. "Tall Paul", right? nt

[New Earth]

20. BACK TO THE BEACH

THAT WAS MAH SHIT BACK IN THE DAY YO

[DELUSIONAL]

21. M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E Donald duck -- Micky Mouse

forever let us hold the banner high.

[Left Is Write]

22. Bikini Beach. Beach Blanket Bingo. Mouseketeers.

OF COURSE I know who Annette Funicello is!

I also saw briefly this morning that she was on the cover of a rag.

[WCGreen]

24. Here hit song....

Jo Jo the Fog Faced Boy

Classic...

What passed for rock-n-roll after Elvis went hollywood an before the Beatles came around