Annette Funicello News

'If I told you I had just met the one celebrity that I have adored, admired and loved forever, who would it be?' I posed this question to my mother in a phone conversation in 1987.

Teen angst filtered through bubblegum sensibilities has been one of the building blocks of pop music since at least the 1950s, if not before.

By Holly Miyasaki - Penticton Western News Published: August 14, 2008 10:00 AM Updated: August 14, 2008 5:29 PM It's going to be a blast from the past for some Pentictonites as a Peach City beach is sent back ...

August 7 1963 The original beach movie, Beach Party , debuts. The film stars Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello.

Some people -- okay, me -- would classify Gidget as a monster movie. No, Sandra Dee was not the Devil and Moondoggie wasn't her slavering hellhound, but their 1959 flick ushered in the frightful genre known as ...

On August 7th, 1963, Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello's first movie together, ...

I just watched Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine , a piece of 1960s American International Pictures silliness.

Television, film and popular music were the top influences for posters and pinups beloved by Chattanooga teenagers born in the baby-boomer generation.

OK, so it's not Carrie and the girls, but who needs Big when you have Eric Von Zipper? The black leather-clad Von Zipper, of course, is one of the best reasons to catch this weekend's Cinema Paradiso screening ...

I'm a longtime fan of the incredible stop motion paper cut-out animation sequences created by Bill Justice and Xavier Atencio for the Disney Studios in the late 1950s and early 60s.

Don't know about you, but I'm glad Miley Cyrus bared her back for a Vanity Fair photo shoot. via The Leaf-Chronicle

“We started with one-of-a-kind boards developed for Holly, Bridget and Kendra for an episode of the E! 's hit TV show Girls Next Door”

Cute bikinis, babes of both sexes, movies , series , documentaries , camps , surfer music - surfing seems less a sport and more of an entire lifestyle filled with the zen of the beach at sunrise, catching the ... via FashionTribes

“In the 1960's, beach party movies were all the rave! We grew up watching Annette Funicello, Frankie Avalon and the gang having a great time during their spring break and that's what we plan to do---have a great time!”

A trip down memory lane is in store for the women who attend the First Annual Baby Boomer Girlfriends Spring Break April 18-20 in Daytona Beach. via WebWire

Spring is here, but for those who can't get enough of the snow, check out the movie "Ski Party" starring Frankie Avalon, Dwayne Hickman and Annette Funicello. via Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Joseph Israel and the Jerusalem Band will play George's Saturday night. The band has just completed an East Coast tour that included a performance at the Caribbean Festival in Miami Fla. via Fayetteville Free Weekly

The first thing I noticed about former "Mouseketeer" Annette Funicello was that she had no eyebrows. via McCreary County Record

“It's almost unfathomable ... how humans can treat other human beings that poorly. When I look at those movies, I think, 'How can I as an individual better the human condition by treating people with the respect they deserve?'”

And for many of those interested in the arts, a love of theater and a love for movies are intertwined. via ArgusLeader.com