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Alice Cooper At The Movies
(Penthouse, 1974-00-00)
When it comes to mayhem and madness, Good To See You Again, Alice Cooper is in a league all by itself. in his first feature-length movie, Alice Cooper thrusts into sharp focus teenage America's fantasies and nightmare - bombarding the viewer with everything from horror-movie sensationalism to Daliesque surrealism. ...
Alice Cooper
(Penthouse, 1974-09-00)
Teeing off on a posh Los Angeles golf course, crowned by a crimson knit golf cap offset with the facing of eight 14-karat aluminum Budweiser cans, twenty-six-year-old Vincent Furnier hardly looks the part of satanic rock star Alice Cooper, the gangly succubus known to flirt openly with writhing boa constrictors. And as his well-placed shot zings across the fairway, few of his suburban fellow golfers could guess that this timid-looking fellow has sold millions of records, including four successive gold albums, and captured the hearts and minds of teenage America with the macabre monomania he projects in jam-packed arenas from coast to coast. ...
News Report
(Penthouse, 1975-00-00)
Alice Cooper's new "Welcome To My Nightmare" rock show will feature a bevy of six-foot female dancers dressed up like black widow spiders? Cooper's manager happily sighs, "It's just like a cheap Japanese horror movie"...
Welcome To My Nightmare Album Review
(Penthouse, 1975-09-00)
Making his debut as a solo artist (without the rest of the group), the master of shockrock expands his musical direction towards more innovation and precision, blending fantasies and pathos with several thousand volts of electro-rock therapy. Producer Bob Ezrin and Alice's new backup musicians (featuring several ex-Lou Reed sidemen) have pushed past heavy-metal banalities to include melodious ballads and hints at jazz-like complexity. The old, overblown theatrics have been transmuted into moments of genuine dramatic potency. Alice's trademark combination of raw fury, craziness, and humor remains, yet touches of vulnerability balance out the more blatant forays into horror and depravity....
Thank You For Clearing That Up
(Penthouse, 1987-00-00)
Rock singer Alice Cooper, denying that he had ever killed a chicken during a performance: "I never killed that chicken. At the Toronto Rock 'n' Roll Revival, someone threw a chicken on stage and I threw it back into the audience. And the audience tore it to pieces, not me."...
Alice is Back
(Penthouse, 1995-01-00)
Alice Cooper brought his Welcome To My Nightmare extravaganza to Australia in 1967 and transformed sports grounds around the country into dark, uncomfortable zones. In his only Australian tour, Cooper displayed the quintessential 1970s marriage of rock 'n' roll and theatre, complete with ghoulish stage sets and dark themes....