I'm an official baby boomer I have to ask ... are you nuts?
Besides, who the heck ever looked at her face?
Posted on 03/30/2013 9:24:00 AM PDT by nikos1121
Rock 'n' roll icon Paul Anka has dropped a bombshell revelation in his new book about his fabulous career - he had a sizzling affair with gorgeous Disney star Annette Funicello. Read all about his passionate romance with the stunning Mouseketeer and the shocking secrets he reveals about Frank Sinatra, Johnny Carson and Ted Kennedy.
No, but Bobby did I think.
Now there’s a story that Paul Anka should have taken to the grave. Only a certified a**hole would share such a thing with the public.
I always figured that everyone in Hollywood had to sleep with somebody to be able to get into the industry in the first place, so their morals were pretty much corrupted right at the start....The “casting couch” is as old as Hollywood itself.
“And now Walt Disney presents ‘Annette’ starring Annette as...Annette!”
Time to send the Ratz and Mice over to Paul's house to straighten him out.
I Always thought Annette was cute, especially in all those short stories on the Mickey Mouse Club; But I really thought Darlene, the one with the long blonde hair was really the beauty of the Mousekateers. Just my 2 cents.
those eyebrows always scared me.
What’s truly depressing is that Mickey Mouse Club was one of the very few children’s programs available in the fifties. I hated all of them. All that idiotic dancing and over-acting by kids whose parents probably pushed them into show business just to get them out of their own faces for a few blessed hours each week. But I liked the cartoons.
I liked the Saturday Night Live parody, “RICKEY RAT”
R-I-C....See you in the sewers, suckers.
K-E-Y....Why? Because we’re vermin.
Mine too. I feel so cheated on. :-(
If you’ve never seen end stage MS, don’t watch this, or if you have a sentimental attachment to what Annette was, don’t watch it.
In late 2012 her husband allowed this series on Annette and her MS to show how bad she has gotten in order to raise funds for treatment with CCSVI for other MSers.
Warning, this is a shocking video.
http://www.ctvnews.ca/w5/annette-funicello-her-life-with-multiple-sclerosis-1.984202
If not...get some lithium...
One day when I was 12 years old, I was in Weile’s, a locally famous ice cream shop outside DC with two BFFs — picture it: that’s three 12-year-old girls. This was back in the day when kids could roam around without fear of abduction.
It was a small shop with booths on either side, and the cause of its fame was not only its huge portions and fanciful ice cream sundaes, splits and other creations with paper umbrellas on top, but also its pink or green whipped cream.
So, in walked the 14-year-old Paul Anka with his manager, and sat in the booth across the aisle from us. You can just imagine the suppressed titters and squeals. However, this was just before the days of Beatlemania; and being well-brought-up Methodist girls, we suppressed the shrieks and just went on eating ice cream demurely, eyes cast down except for a few discreet peeks. I did get a good look at all the orange pancake makeup on his face — he must have been coming off a personal appearance — and that totally turned me off.
He did smile modestly at us, and then he and his manager got busy with the menu. I suppose he might have been offended that we were too shy to approach him — a distance of about seven feet — when leaving before he did.
Beibermania, back in the day. Pretty tame...
Put your head on my shoulder, and you’ll feel better.
My wife and my son danced to “The Times of Your Life” by Paul Anka, at his wedding. Very touching.
Mr. Anka should have kept quiet. If there was anyone who was presented to the world as virginal, it was Annette Funicello.
Sometimes we would rather hold onto youthful memories and dreams. There was no need to needlessly stain them.
Paul,
I remember Annette telling me that “it was no big deal” as she was ezplaining her disappointment.
Your right he’s a jerk.
“Beauty is as beauty does. That’s what wise men say.”
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