Well, how about that! Imagine little old me being asked to write an entry for an encyclopedia. It was the perky Jiminy Cricket of the Mickey Mouse Club who taught me how to spell "e-n-c-y-c-l-o-p-e-d-i-a" lyrically in an annoying ditty preceding a daily feature dedicated to kid knowledge. More than four decades later, I can spell encyclopedia, and write for one, thanks in part to a dancing cricket with a top hat. I would like to share the news with Annette Funicello, but she won't ...