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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: Politics, Obituaries, Annette Funicello
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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: Television Industry, Mary Poppins (musical), Music, Annette Funicello, Entertainment
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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: Britney Spears, Television, Annette Funicello, Entertainment, Christina Aguilera
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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: Britney Spears, Newspaper and Magazine, Psychologists, Music, Health and Medical Professionals
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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., Literature, Arts and Culture, Obituaries, Annette Funicello
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Big Daddy on Kickstarter for retro Broadway-Hollywood comeback
One of the great left-field surprises of the 1980s pop music scene came with the arrival of Big Daddy, a whimsical band that reimagined hits of the day as they might have sounded had they been recorded in the 1950s. The conceit was that the group’s...
Tags: Charity, Music, Rock and Roll (genre), Elvis Presley, Kickstarter
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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: Comedy (genre), Frankenstein (movie, 1931), Dracula (movie, 1931), Lucille Ball, Alzheimer's Disease
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Dick Clark: An indelible impact on American pop music
Pop & HissDick Clark: As the music and TV industry mourns the passing of "America's oldest living teenager," who died on Wednesday of a heart attack at the age of 82, we remember the indelible mark Dick Clark left on pop music.... -
Hot Property: Matthew Perry has penchant for glass houses
"Friends" star Matthew Perry has put two homes up for sale and sold a condo in the last three weeks.
His contemporary-style house in the Sunset Strip area is priced at $5,695,000.
The 4,100-square-foot mid-century modern features disappearing walls of...Tags: 17 Again (movie), Condos, Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, Satellite and Cable Service, Swimming
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Esa-Pekka Salonen puts his home in Brentwood up for sale
The Brentwood home of Esa-Pekka Salonen, former music director of the L.A. Philharmonic, has come on the market at $4.1 million.
Designed by architect Ted Tanaka, the six-bedroom, 5 1/2 -bathroom house has 4,695 square feet of living space. Tanaka's...Tags: Weeds (tv program), Sotheby's Holdings Incorporated, Family, Annette Funicello, Showtime (tv network)
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Robert P. Marcucci dies at 81; talent manager discovered Frankie Avalon, Fabian
Robert P. Marcucci, the former Philadelphia record company owner and legendary talent manager who groomed and launched teen idols Frankie Avalon and Fabian in the late 1950s, has died. He was 81.
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Robert Marcucci: In...Tags: Career and Workplace, Fabian, Bill Murray, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Drama (genre)
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In Rotation: The Mixtures' 'Stompin' at the Rainbow'
Pop & HissWith apologies to the Who, who coined the term, the music that the Mixtures made in the Southland in the early 1960s can best be described as “maximum r&b.” The hard-driving sound is captured on “Stompin’ at the Rainbow: The......
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