CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS & TRIVIA

Celebrity Birthdays & Trivia

October

20 - Snoop Dog – 37 – Long Beach, CA
21 – Carrie Fisher – 52 – Beverly Hills, CA
21 – Judge Judy Sheindlin – 66 – Brooklyn, NY
22 – Jonathan Lipnicki – 18 – Westlake Village, CA
22 – Zac Hanson – 23 – Arlington, VA
22 – Jeffrey Goldblum – 56 – West Homestead, PA
22 – Annette Funicello – 66 – Utica, NY
22 – Christopher Lloyd – 70 – Stanford, CT
23 – “Weird” Al Yankovic – 48 – Lynwood, CA
25 – Helen Reddy – 66 – Melbourne, Victoria, Australia



Trivia

ANNETTE FUNICELLO

Disney cast her as one of the original “Museketeers”. She was the last to be selected, and the only one picked by Walt Disney. She soon proved to be very popular.

After maturing, she moved on from Disney and became a teen idol, starring in a series of “Beach Party” movies with Frankie Avalon for American International Pictures. When she was cast in her first beach movie, Walt Disney himself, for the sake of her virginal image, asked her not to appear in any provocative scenes or wear any attire that showed her navel. She did not fully comply with the latter request. She is seen wearing a two piece fishnet suit in the second film (Muscle Beach Party) and a blue and white bikini in the third (Bikini Beach).

Funicello announced in 1992 that she suffers from multiple sclerosis. She had kept her condition a secret for many years, but felt it necessary to go public to combat rumors that her impaired carriage was the result of alcoholism. That same year, she was inducted as a Disney Legend. In 1993, she opened the Annette Funicello Fund for Neurological Disorders at the California Community Foundation.