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Annette Funicello obituary: A caption in the April 9 Section A that accompanied the obituary of Annette Funicello identified the subjects in a beach-scene photograph as Funicello and Frankie Avalon, who starred together in a number of 1960s beach movies....Tags: Obituaries, Frankie Avalon, Politics
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Remembering Annette Funicello
I was a star-struck 9-year-old when I saw Annette Funicello in person. Funicello, Frankie Avalon, Morey Amsterdam and Jody McCrea were promoting American International Pictures’ sun-and-surf musical comedy “Muscle Beach Party” and...
Tags: Mary Poppins (musical), Entertainment, Multiple Sclerosis, Music, Television Industry
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An appreciation: Annette Funicello, comfortable being herself
Los Angeles Times Television CriticAs a merry Mouseketeer and then as a big-screen beach bunny, Annette Funicello, who died Monday at age 70, was the first love for a couple of generations of young Americans. (Perhaps not exclusively male Americans, but people were more tight-lipped...Tags: Entertainment, Britney Spears, Television, Christina Aguilera, Frankie Avalon
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Annette Funicello dies at 70; Mouseketeer and 'beach' movie star
If you were a girl in the 1950s, Annette Funicello was the ideal of feminine goodness, your fantasy best friend forever. If you were a boy, she was your dream date, demure, doe-eyed and just different enough to set hearts pounding. The most adored of...
Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Psychologists, Entertainment, Chicago Tribune, Britney Spears
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Margaret Thatcher, Annette Funicello and the spectrum of sisterhood
While former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton considers the pros and cons of trying, once again, to become this nation's first female president and Julia Louis-Dreyfus returns as the bumbling but pencil-skirt-rocking fictional vice president in...
Tags: Multiple Sclerosis, Feminism, Republic of Ireland, Golda Meir, Hillary Clinton
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Long lines for Powerball tickets in California
As Powerball tickets went on sale for the first time in California on Monday, hopeful customers lined up for their shot at becoming millionaires. Hundreds of people turned to Bluebird Liquor in Hawthorne, a local liquor store that has become known for...
Tags: Services and Shopping, Lotteries, Lifestyle and Leisure, Powerball Lottery
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Jury begins deliberations in Rockefeller impostor murder case
Jurors weighing the fate of a man accused in the 1985 slaying of his San Marino landlady’s son began deliberations Tuesday after a prosecutor said the defendant behaved like a “murderer on the run.” In his rebuttal to the defense&...
Tags: Clark Rockefeller, Witnesses, Prosecution, Murder, Crime, Law and Justice
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'Mickey Mouse Club' star Annette Funicello dies at 70
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...
Tags: The Walt Disney Co., Multiple Sclerosis, Entertainment, Literature, Arts and Culture
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Bonnie Lynn Fields dies at 68; former Mouseketeer
Bonnie Lynn Fields, who danced and sang her way into pop-culture posterity as one of Walt Disney's Mouseketeers, died Saturday in Richmond, Ind. She was 68. Fields, a heavy smoker earlier in her life, was diagnosed with throat cancer about two years...
Tags: Throat Cancer, Entertainment, Arts and Culture, Recreational and Sporting Goods Industry, Tim Considine
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William Asher dies at 90; 'I Love Lucy,' 'Bewitched' director
As the director of more than 100 episodes of the enduringly classic 1950s sitcom "I Love Lucy," William Asher considered the first episode he directed to be one of his most memorable: Lucy and Ethel working in a chocolate factory.
But for Asher, who died...Tags: Eve Arden, Entertainment, Alzheimer's Disease, Patty Duke, Television
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Robert Sherman dies at 86; songwriter best known for 'Mary Poppins'
At the Academy Awards ceremony in 1965, Robert and Richard Sherman already had accepted their Oscar for best score for "Mary Poppins" when they returned to the stage to pick up another statuette for best song, "Chim Chim Cher-ee."
Having already...Tags: Awards and Prizes, Hospitals and Clinics, Grammy Awards, Entertainment, Documentary (genre)
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