COOPER GIFTS ZOMBIE THE ‘HOLLYWOOD’ O
Heavy rocker-turned-moviemaker ROB ZOMBIE owns a piece of the old ‘Hollyw ood’ sign - a gift from music icon ALICE COOPER.
Cooper agreed to sponsor part of the sign when it was revamped in the 1 970s - and, as a thank you, he received one of the letter Os. The School’ s Out rocker then smashed the old O up, framed the pieces and handed them out as gifts.
And Zombie was among the recipients.
He tells Spin magazine, "The sign was falling apart, so all these diffe rent celebrities sponsored new letters. Alice took O.
"He chopped the old one up, encased the pieces in Plexiglas, and gave ‘ em away." The piece of the sign is one of many odd collectables Zombie has accumu lated over the years - he also has Alfred Hitchcock’s death mask, the tom bstone of Michael Myers’ mother from his Halloween remake, memorabilia fr om Planet of the Apes and artwork from the estate of Vampira, aka Maila N urmi.
He explains, "After she died a couple of years ago, they needed to rais e money to pay for her funeral, so I bought a bunch of artwork she had d one - self portraits and some weird s**t."
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