Annette Funicello

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<p>I LOVED Spin & Marty. My favorite show, along with The Gray Ghost and Richard Green as Robin Hood. (I’ll bet not too many of you remember The Gray Ghost - the Confederate spy was the good guy…)</p>

<p>One of my male friends said that he spent his childhood watching Annette Funicello’s breasts develop. I on the other hand just loved the clubby feeling. They made us kids feel as if we were part of their group. It was fun.</p>

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<p>I recall watching the Mickey Mouse Club at a very young age (I must have been about 4 years old) and especially liking Annette during the roll call - when they turned around and said their names. </p>

<p>Even then I recognized that Annette had some sort of special sparkle that the other kids lacked. Which caused me in later years to ponder what sort of intangibles constitute star power and how in the world was I able to recognize it even at such an early age.</p>

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<p>Stars are stars because we are drawn to them. </p>

<p>A friend was sitting in a restaurant and at the table next to him was Robert Redford. The guy is an old man but he still has that attraction.</p>

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<p>What were the terrible things Annette said/did as an adult? I don’t recall hearing much of anything about her after she retired from making beach movies.</p>

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<p>Nope…I couldn’t care less about any Hollywood type…they are actors, that’s it…but most think they are much more.</p>

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<p>geeps, you’d have to know quite a few of them personally to make such a sweeping statement. I imagine some are egotistical and some aren’t. Just like most other professions.</p>

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<p>I mentioned that to my son this afternoon when we were talking about both of them. It’s a little-known fact that Thatcher was an extra in that movie. Same hairstyle as later on.</p>

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<p>In my house she was Anette Fullofjello.</p>

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<p>Much more seriously, I do have a vague recollection of watching the Mickey Mouse Club in the late 1950’s as a very small child. I was surprised that Ms. Funicello was 70, but then again, in less than 15 years (if I’m lucky) I’ll be there myself. Tempus fugit.</p>

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<p>You’re kidding, right? Or you have her mixed up with somebody else? I was curious and tried to find something about her that could be that controversial, and didn’t see a thing. She did commercials for Skippy peanut butter? I can’t imagine.</p>

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<p>wis75, like some of the others, I’m not familiar with any controversial statements that Funicello may have made.</p>

<p>This is a stretch, but are you perhaps thinking of Shirley Temple Black?</p>

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<p>Or are you perhaps thinking of Anita Bryant, another good-looking brunette who went from being a pageant queen to selling orange juice to holding extremely unfortunate (and vocal) anti-gay views. Annette Funicello was nothing like that.</p>

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<p>If she did, I don’t want to know about it. It’s bad karma enough to die on the same day as milk-snatcher Thatcher.</p>

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<p>^mini…give it a rest…we get it Thatcher was a conservative, so you feel the need to attack a person who just died…how mature.</p>

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<p>She should be remembered for what she was. She took milk out of the mouths of children. Deal with it.</p>

<p>If you wish to associate conservatives with people who take milk out of the mouths of children, that’s your call, not mine.</p>

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<p>Annette with old nose:
<a href=“http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/i/2013/04/08/ANNETTE-FUNICELLO.jpg[/url]”>http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/i/2013/04/08/ANNETTE-FUNICELLO.jpg&lt;/a&gt;
And with new:
<a href=“http://media.salon.com/2013/04/annette_funicello.jpg[/url]”>http://media.salon.com/2013/04/annette_funicello.jpg&lt;/a&gt;
It wasn’t even a bad nose, but I guess a nose that was okay for a kids’ TV show wasn’t acceptable for the movies back then. I think the new one was a standard model found on every starlet.</p>

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<p>wow…just wow…true colors shining through…won’t be dealing with the likes of you, that’s for sure…</p>

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<p>Good thinking. I’ll bet that’s it. Wis75, I remember Anita Bryant, and she was no Annette Funicello!</p>

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<p>Anita Bryant had a similar hairstyle. I suggested Shirley Temple because like Finicello she started as a child star. Come on, wis75, we’re curious here.</p>

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<p>I remember Annette was never allowed to wear a bikini.</p>

<p>I liked Karen, and still have memories of her role in Exodus.</p>

<p>I also liked Doreen. No one had the star power of Annette, though I’m not sure why she stood out.</p>