Annette Funicello dies at 70

[operalover21]

The most famous mousketeer has lost her long battle against MS. Rest in peace.

[Becket]

She had wonderful breasts. Even in the '60's you could see the outline of her nipples through her thick sweaters.

[operalover21]

She had wonderful breasts. Even in the '60's you could see the outline of her nipples through her thick sweaters.

 

Are you on the right forum? LOL. Just kidding. She developed quite early especially for such a small woman.

[gnosvotos]

She will be very much missed. Tis a sad day.

 

"It's time to say goodbye..."

[+ Chris Eisenhower]

The world has gone insane. My client I was just having lunch with didn't know who she was (and he's in his 50s).

[instudiocity]

The world has gone insane. My client I was just having lunch with didn't know who she was (and he's in his 50s).

He couldn't be from this world! I'm in my 50's and I remember Annette on the Mickey Mouse show and the Annette & Frankie movies, too. Funny, even then I thought Frankie topless was fun to look at...

[+ Gar1eth]

The world has gone insane. My client I was just having lunch with didn't know who she was (and he's in his 50s).

 

That's ridiculous. I'm 52 and I knew who she was. Had he never seen a Mickey Mouse Show repeat? Or A beach movie back when they used to show them a lot ?

 

Gman

[bigvalboy]

The world has gone insane. My client I was just having lunch with didn't know who she was (and he's in his 50s).

 

He's probably one of dem foreigners...you know how they are.

[+ Chris Eisenhower]

He's probably one of dem foreigners...you know how they are.

 

I was shocked.

[leigh.bess.toad]

I feel like a small piece of my childhood has been lost. This was one I guess we've all been expecting for quite a while, knowing of her struggles with MS, but it still is a shock.

 

RIP Dear Annette. And thanks for everything.

[Professor Mitch]

She fought a brave battle...so many of my generation felt like we knew her because she was in our living room every week...without the competition of 700 other channels.

[jankeedaddy]

A part of my childhood and then the beach movies. It looks like she is the 7th of the younger Mouseketeers to die http://bashful.gcsu.edu/~mikeh/mmc/Mice.html

[operalover21]

The world has gone insane. My client I was just having lunch with didn't know who she was (and he's in his 50s).

 

I don't see how that's possible unless he never picked up a paper, watched TV, or saw a movie in his entire lifetime.

[jackhammer91406]

A piece of my childhood and young adulthood has passed. I grew up on the Mickey Mouse Club and watched it faithfully every day. As I came into puberty, I began to have a different impression of Annette.

 

Decades later I had my first meeting with her and her ex-husband Jack Gilardi when he worked at CMA (before ICM).

 

Another decade and I had the chance to work with her on a number of peanut butter commercials.

She was a sweet and giving woman and her battle with an awful disease was marked by her incredible grace dealing with such struggles.

 

We are a bit less blessed today.

[JT Brooklyn]

R.I.P. Anette Funicello did Walt Proud not like the ungratefuls they make alleged Stars these days!

[Lohengrin1979]

A piece of my childhood and young adulthood has passed. I grew up on the Mickey Mouse Club and watched it faithfully every day. As I came into puberty, I began to have a different impression of Annette.

 

Decades later I had my first meeting with her and her ex-husband Jack Gilardi when he worked at CMA (before ICM).

 

Another decade and I had the chance to work with her on a number of peanut butter commercials.

She was a sweet and giving woman and her battle with an awful disease was marked by her incredible grace dealing with such struggles.

 

We are a bit less blessed today. [/color][/size][/font]

 

Beautifully said. She will be missed and embodied much of what we should expect from celebrities. These days we get spoiled children assaulting people over porsches.

 

 

Lohengrin

[+ Axiom2001]

She had wonderful breasts. Even in the '60's you could see the outline of her nipples through her thick sweaters.

 

This is not appropriate. How does this relate to her recent demise?

[+ Axiom2001]

Beautifully said. She will be missed and embodied much of what we should expect from celebrities. These days we get spoiled children assaulting people over porsches.

 

 

Lohengrin

 

This was beautifully and appropriately written, and I thank you! I, too, "grew up on the Mickey Mouse Club." ...viewed this show daily and connected with some of the Muskeeters.

[operalover21]

This is not appropriate. How does this relate to her recent demise?

 

C'mon. It was a comment on her lovely appearance. How could that not be appropriate?

[operalover21]

Sadly, I heard the dumb woman anchor on CNN call her Annette FUNisello.

[Poolboy21409]

I was eight years old when Mickey Mouse Club premiered in 1955 and remember watching it on a blonde mahogany 17" Philco TV with a swivel base. I was in love with her and Darlene but even at that age was attracted to the guys more. She was and is a class act. But I do have to say, this week's death trilogy covers mnany spectra -- Margaret Thatcher, the movie critic and Annette!

[Toulouse]

Always a classy, beautiful little lady. She was only a couple years older than me. I remember watching her and the "Club" after school everyday.

Thanks for the memories, Annette.