I pick up a USA Today and sit down to eat my breakfast burrito at the casino cafe and what do I see? Annette Funicello has died. Annette was a Mouseketeer and the heartthrob of so many pre-adolescent, and adolescent boys in the 50's.
She sang adequately and wasn't a very good actress but you can bet she was a major draw at the box office when I was in my teens. Those Beach Party movies weren't great cinema but they certainly made money for Disney. I and many of my friends willingly put up our purloined money to watch the eye candy (of which Annette definitely was a part). We could easily ignore the silly plots in order to view the bikini-clad babes.
Like most of the Disney child stars of those years, she had a pristine reputation.
Good-bye, Annette, you had no idea how many of my dreams you starred in.
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