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Billion Dollar Babies Costs a Million

Alice Cooper's current Billion Dollar Babies tour cost 1.2 million to produce. The three month tour ends up in New York at Madison Square Garden on June 3, at which time Alice hopes to have onstage "everyone Rona Barrett knows." Asked if he could possibly go any further with his show, Alice replied, "The kids keep getting sicker; and as they get sicker, we'll be right behind them." As a child, Alice went to church three times a week. "If I'd listened to my mother, I'd still be at home," chuckled America's biggest phenomena. "I'm really Fred McMurray off stage and Bela Lugosi on." In a more serious mood, Alice hopes to make a quarter of a million dollars out of merchandising products bearing his name, such as cosmetics, fingernail decals, and beer. And the tour itself is slated to gross 4.6 million dollars, which will make it the highest earning concert junket in the history of the United States. Coming in second is none other than the last Rolling Stones tour, which grossed a mere (sob!) 3.2 million. They'll have to try harder next time.