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Alice Cooper Offers A Fistful Of New Projects
(Reuters, 1997-07-24)
DETROIT (Reuter) - Alice Cooper doesn't feel too offended by not being invited to be part of the Lilith Fair tour. He is a guy, after all. But Cooper figures they're missing something. "Yeah," he says, "I can do my special 90-minute version of 'Only Women Bleed."' Not very P.C., but political correctedness has never been Cooper's bailiwick. Before Marilyn Manson was riling up the religious right, before Kiss was spitting blood and before Ozzy Osbourne was biting the heads off doves, Cooper was shocking PTAs and even love-bead-wearing hippies by smearing on mascara, hacking up baby dolls, playing with snakes, simulating executions onstage and singing about "Sick Things," "Dead Babies" and other unsavory topics. ...