Alice on Soupy Sales in new Entertainment Weekly

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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.