Disney star Annette Funicello, 70, dies from MS

NEW YORK - Annette Funicello, who became a child star as a perky, cute-as-a-button Mouseketeer on The Mickey Mouse Club in the 1950s, then teamed up with Frankie Avalon in a string of '60s fun-in-the-sun movies such as Beach Blanket Bingo and Bikini Beach, died Monday. She was 70.