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Cooper not afraid to have fun with his Image
(Whoot, 2001-10-25)
Alice Cooper still does his 1970s shock rock routine with full makeup and stage regalia - he just doesn't take himself as seriously. In a new TV commercial for Marriott's Residence Inn, for example, Cooper pokes fun at his hard-rock image. He tells a dad to spend more time with his children, and in the last frame is seen jumping rope with some little girls. "That was fun to do," says Cooper, who is appearing at 9 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 27 at Trump Marina. "I'm not one of those guys who makes the image so precious that you can't have fun with it. Anytime you can juxtapose Alice Cooper with Middle America, I'm all for it."...