Comments on: RIP Annette Funicello

By: davisbr

davisbr — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 06:17:53 +0000

I had the hat; it was a prized possession, and was worn while watching, and especially watching her (oh yeah: huge crush ...my first, I think) ... ...every move you make, I'll be watching you ... ...was pretty much true, even through the Funicello/Avalon Beach Blanket days (the ears, alas, were long gone by then). RIP Missie, RIP.

By: Gringo

Gringo — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 15:40:06 +0000

Ray:
I admire her husband because he stayed with her. In many cases like that the healthy partner divorces and abandons the sick one and moves on to a new life.

Good point. A teacher at my high school, whom many considered to be a “cool guy,” had a wife with MS. One week he went missing, and was found two thousand miles away, apparently with a case of amnesia. “Where am I?”

As a divorce from his wife followed, I suspected that the amnesia was faked, just a way to make it easier to get a divorce- see the stress this is putting me under.

He did not return to teaching.

By: Richard Aubrey

Richard Aubrey — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 14:10:25 +0000

I’m of the generation which can spell ‘encyclopedia”. While keeping the beat..
“Spin and Marty” and several other MMC serials were pretty good kid fiction for the day. Not cheap production values, iirc.
I suppose the question is, given the day, what other possibility would have been better?
This question is not to be answered by people who get off by deflowering innocent minds for no purpose but their own sick fun.

By: brooklyn boy

brooklyn boy — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 10:53:03 +0000

I saw her once in 1960 I believe, at Radio City Music Hall. Flash forward about 30 years later and I saw another childhood legend Hayley Mills in London.

By: Beverly

Beverly — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 06:33:43 +0000

Our big sister loved the Mousketeers. She used to sit cross-legged on the floor in front of our black-and-white television, with her Mouse Ears hat firmly on her little head.

By: IGotBupkis, Legally Defined Cyberbully in All 57 States and Feminist Channeler of Ill Repute

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 01:11:29 +0000

Well, the quote must now be changed…

Nobody’s juggs were bigger than Annette’s.

By: expat

expat — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 00:03:37 +0000

I remember her less from the Mickey Mouse Club than from her later work. She fit in to the whole Frankie Avalon, Fabian, American Bandstand era for me. It was a far more innocent time than today.

By: William Powell

William Powell — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 22:56:50 +0000

I too was a fan of the MM Club and she got my full attention. Sigh, I am only three years younger than Annette. Where DOES that time go.

By: carl in atlanta

carl in atlanta — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 22:09:23 +0000

I remember her well. I and my brothers were big time fans of the Mickey Mouse Club during the late 1950’s, until I discovered “the Popeye Club” (which was as close to “edgy” as late 50’s cartoon shows ever got down here. Pretty good violence, Love interest, and regular triangles. Sometimes spooky/scary: the Goons, Goonland and the Sea Hag).

RIP Annette.

By: Mac

Mac — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 20:07:22 +0000

I had a crush on her around the time of the Spin and Marty series, which now that I think of it is sort of weird, because I was too young to be having crushes. RIP.