The December 4,2009 issue of Entertainment Weekly has a coverstory on "The Late Greats of 2009." Surprisingly, Soupy Sales is mentioned (they overlooked a lot of recently deceased celebrities) and even more surprisingly, Alice is the one who wrote the sidebar on him:
Pie-Hurdling Comedian Soupy Sales
Jan 8,1926 - Oct 22, 2009
by Alice Cooper
I lived in Detroit when Lunch with Soupy Sales was on. When I was 6, I would go to school in the morning, come home for lunch, watch Soupy then go back to school. Later on, he invited me on the show. Getting hit with a pie by Soupy, that's right up there with getting your star on Hollywood Boulevard. There's an art to taking a pie. He said, "You can't flinch. If a pie hits you out of nowhere, it's really funny." You really had to work at not closing your eyes. It was, honestly, one of the most fun things I ever did. Soupy's show was two-dimensional: It was for little kids, then it had another layer for the adults.
Sales (ne Milton Supman) died of cancer in the Bronx, N.Y.
Alice on Soupy Sales in new Entertainment Weekly
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