See the update at the end of page 3 about a local blogger's pictorial tribute to Annette and funnymen busting out tweets. ORIGINAL POST, APRIL 8, 1:51 P.M.: Annette Funicello today “died peacefully ...

"I am the girl next door. And I'm not moving." Annette Funicello made that declaration in 1965, in the curiously titled film "How to Stuff a Wild Bikini." Playing beach girl Didi in the film, ...

This is FRESH AIR. We're going to remember Annette Funicello. She died yesterday at the age of 70 from complications of multiple sclerosis, which she had had for more than 25 years. For anyone growing ...

I grew up with Annette Funicello. She was my favorite older girl on “The Mickey Mouse Club,” a friendly face with a sweet voice. She started on the show in 1955 at age 13, the only cast member ...

Mickey Mouse Club star Annette Funicello died on Monday from complications due to multiple sclerosis, a disease she battled since 1987. She was 70 years old. “Annette was and always will be a ...

Walt Disney’s daughter said the nation lost a consummate professional and one of the loveliest people she has ever known with the death of Mouseketeer Annette Funicello. Funicello, the longtime Disney ...

Annette Funicello, who was part of the original cast of the 1950's Disney television program, The Mickey Mouse Club, died Monday. She was 70 and had had multiple sclerosis for decades. Funicello also ...

Handpicked by Walt Disney to be one of the original Mouseketeers, Annette Funicello was America's girl next door. She spoke to Fresh Air in 1994 about Mickey Mouse ears and why she went public with ...

Annette Funicello, who first gained fame as a 12-year-old Mousekeeter on Disney’s “The Mickey Mouse Club” in the 1950s and then starred opposite Frankie Avalon in a series of musical beach party films ...