RIP Annette Funicello
Annette Funicello, one of the original Mickey Mouse Mouseketeers has died in Los Angeles. One of the best-known members of the original Mickey Mouse Club of the 1950's and later a star of the 1960s beach party films with Frankie Avalon, Funicello died of complications of Multiple Sclerosis, an illness that she battled for 25 years. She was 70.