Tuesday, April 17, 1973
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By JOE ZANATTA
Alice Insane, On Stage and Off
Kansan Reviewer
When Alice Cooper strolled into the lobby of the Ramada Inn Sunday afternoon for his scheduled press conference, he wasn't hard to cheer. He was all hands on deck. Painted pants he wore a pair of yellow jacket shorts that proclaimed "The Greatest Show on Earth." A green top hat graced his head. In one hand was an open can of Budweiser, in the other the six-pack was in his other hand.
Forty-five minutes later the "press conference" began in Alice's suite. Alice sat at a large round table, Mark Volman to his left and Howard Kaylan to his right (Flo and Eddie, the opening act of the Alice Cooper Show).
"Now that's real torture," he said, looking as the closed Ramada liquor store.
"I've always been a fan of the A's," he said.
watching, TV, where the Royals were smashing the White Sox. 12-5.
Flo and Eddie were introduced, Eddie gave Flo a birthday present—a paper sacked filled with candy and toys. Alice stood up and showed his guests his new underwear, which confirmed to proclaim "The Greatest Gift." And after complimenting one of the guests on his jacket and adding where he had bought it, Alice decided to answer a few questions.
“It’s a 70 cabaret,” he said concerning the Alice Cooper Billion Dollar Babies Show. “It reflects the decadence of this century. There’s nothing better than dirty money.”
"This is what television did to me," he said. "Madison Avenue destroyed me, but that's all right. I'm an all-American product."
Mahon lives," he said, pointing to the label of a Bud in his hand. Alice was disappointed, however that Budweser would not respond him. "I drink a case a day," he said.
A tornado warning flashed on to the television. Alice looked out the window and said he hoped there would be a tornado. "I think we had a precautioned to talk about his rise to war fame."
Someone asked Alice if either drugs or booze had brought him success. "Ed Mc-
Alice then showed the group a piece of chicken that had been part of his lunch and announced that he was going to take it to bed with him Sunday night.
"I'm going to enjoy it while it lasts," Alice said. "It took me nine years to become a success—seven years of peanut butter and two years of filet mignon."
Alice was asked if he had ever been attacked by those who did not likel his music or
Alice then produced a copy of an anti-alice Cooper editorial that appeared in the Haymaker. He gave a dramatic reading of the story, and then showed it down the front of his pants.
"When I'm on stage I’m tough," he said. "Nobody bothers me on stage." He also pointed to three body guards and said, "My boys, you’ve got to have them these days."
Eddie, Meanwhile, had struck up a conversation with one of the guests while Flo played with his glow-in-the-dark plastic babies, baseball cards and rocket cap gun, stopping occasionally to eat a lollipop. Alice and Flo used cards and then yelled out the names of a few old-time stars. He also blamed President Nixon for a price increase in baseball cards.
He also showed the group a bruise on his arm from his latest fight.
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"I don't feel any responsibility for the audience," Alice said, fielding another question. "They're all crazer than I am—paying seven dollars to kill themselves."
Paperback Releases On Parade
LOST HORIZON, by James Hilton (Pocket, $1.25)—One of the first books in what we now call the "paperback revolution," published in 1893 and reissued in 2016 by Simon & Schuster Ross Hunter. The music of Burt Bacharach already has been played to death by the payola boys. "Lost Horizon" is lovely and fanciful, a story of Shangri-La and the misplaced people who are unable to see that they should not exploit for "civilization."
PEOPLE I HAVE LOVED, KNOWN OR ADMIRED, by Leo Rosten (Pocket, $1.50)—There are a lot of people in this charming memoir by one of our most enjoyable writers. Rosten didn't know everybody in these pages, but he was affected in some ways. He had a girlfriend Harold Lasswell, Stacey Seengl, Corporal Alibawitz, Churchill and Groucho Marx.
THE JOB HANDBOOK FOR POST-COLEGE COP-OUTS, by Lawrence Handel (Pocket, $1.25) - A guide, in a way, if you're really interested in work as a card dealer, portographer, CIA agent and funeral director's assistant.
END ZONE, by Don Delille (Pocket,
$1.25) - A football novel, but really more than that, as one reviewer put it, "no more football novel any more than 'Catch-22' was about airplanes." The audience for this on our campuses is likely to be considerable.
THANATOS, by Frank Hailaire (Pocket,
$1.25) This is a love story, the cover says,
a book about forbidden love, within prison
walls. It's also about prison life itself, by
a man who was an inmate of California's
Folsom Prison.
Eight Air Force ROTC cadets at the University of Kansas have been selected to receive the Distinguished Cadet Award.
Recipients are Buddy C. Caples, Lawrence senior; Lonny Bruce, McPherson senior; Stephen McFarland, Topeka senior; Jonathanugh Pepa, Selma, Ala., senior; David Kumler, Islands, Calif., senator; Kent Sprekelmeyle, fifth-year student; Terry Jackson, Lawrence fifth-year student; and Mike Probasco, Lawrence fifth-year student.
BOOK, by Gerard I. Nierenberg and Henry H. Calero (Pocket, $1.50)—Another book in the "Body Language" tradition. "Silent language" has become a fascinating field. You may find this one an absorbing and helpful experience.
THE TRANSVECTION MACHINE, by Edward D. Hoch (Pocket, 95 cents)-A thriller about America in the 21st century, computerized but still a place for murder. The Computer Investigation Bureau looks into the strange death of Vander Defoze, inventor of the revolutionary "transvection machine."
ONLY A NOVEL: THE DOUBLE LIFE OF JANE AUSTEN, by Jane Alen Hodge (Premier, $1.25)—An intimate portrait of the great novelist Jane Austen. The author has written several historical novels, and she writes about her life and her times in this either gentle novel.
MISTREST OF FALCONHURST, by Lance Horner (Gold Medal, $1.25) —Another of those old massa-sex on the plantation epics that Horner has been grinding out. Warren Maxwell is master of Falconhurst, which has the best slaves in the South, yes sir. Lucretia Borgia (yes) is a cook who slowly becomes boss of the place.
THE FREEDOM TRAP, by Desmond Bagley (Brest, 95 cents)—An entertaining thriller involving international intrigue, a wild chase on a boat off Matta, a package of being sent through the mail, a professional escape, and an exciting excitement. Bagley is one of the best in the
currently popular school that also includes Alistair MacLean.
GOLD BATT, by Walter Sheldon (Gold Medal, 75 cents). *A thriller about $3 million in gold on the bottom of the ocean near Korea, the man who sets out to find it and the mean crew that decides to do away with him.*
THE MAN WHO LOVED MARS, by Lin Carter (Gold Medal, 75 cents)—A science fiction adventure set in Illinois, lost city of Oz. With the aid of a friend flourished and a strange secret is hidden.
Alice said his stage image was competently different from what he was really like. "Alice is Mr. Hyde," he said. "Off stage I Fred MacMurray, Alice lets his inhibitions out when he's on stage. At least he's honest."
MONDAY THE RABBI TOOK OFF, by HARRY Kermelman (Crest, $125.) Latest in the adventures of Rabbi David Small, who is in Israel on a private visit and of its members, and an international murder as well as the usual squabbles with the congregation. A good one.
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Alice was asked about his presentation of the Alice Cooper Living Legend Award to George Burns and Jack Benny. His only explanation was that he liked them. He then entertained his guests with impersonations of Burns and Benny.
1. You must be a regularly enrolled student at KU (graduate or undergraduate).
II. You must be returning to KU next semester.
Alice looked out the window and called a passing man a homosexual. Someone questioned him about the countryside view that could be seen from his window.
III. You must have performed service to the University or Lawrence community.
IV. Scholarship, financial need, and references will be of minimal consideration in application reviews.
"I hate nature," he said. "When I get up in the morning I like to see a gray building out my window. I've always been a city boy."
Applications in SUA office Deadline: April 26, 1973.
Alice answered a few quick questions before dissolving the "press conference." He said he laid constantly, took five minutes to put on his make-up, was twenty-five years old, and that his first girl friend, Debbie Hickie, married a Corvette.
Alice then walked around, met every woman, signed autographs, drank some more Bud, posed for pictures, showed everyone his bruise again, drank some more Bud, told fight stories, answered questions and drank some more Bud.
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An hour later the gracious host decided Dr. Jeckyll had been around long enough.
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