Alice Cooper reminisces at Dragon-Con
August 31, 2012
by Melissa Ruggieri
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Dragon-Con might be the only place on Earth where
Alice Cooper could walk around unrecognized.
But that’s only if he were in full makeup, which he wasn’t during his Friday afternoon appearance at the four-day festival celebrating everything grand about science fiction, superheroes, horror and fantasy.
Cooper, born Vincent Furnier, shared his hourlong panel with James Randi, best known as the “executioner” during the classic 1973 “Billion Dollar Babies” tour.
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Oh, and while the white-bearded Randi, 84, was reluctant to give away the secret of the guillotine trick (“You’ll probably go look it up on Google now…and what you read will be wrong,” he cautioned good-naturedly), Cooper did explain how the trick could have resulted in actual decapitation if, well, executed incorrectly.
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