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Real World Fuels Alice Cooper's Horror Tales
(Post Gazette, 2000-10-01)
More than 20 years after deciding his audience couldn't be shocked anymore, Alice Cooper was shocked to find the inspiration that would fuel his most frightening nightmare yet while watching CNN. "I asked myself, 'What scares me?' And what scared me was CNN.Freddy Krueger doesn't scare me. Things like that don't scare me. What scared me were things like Kosovo. Here's a guy collecting his family in a pillowcase. And it's not staged. It's not part of a movie. It's for real."...