Manners: Marilyn Manson, Nice Guy

ON stage, Marilyn Manson looks like a long pale worm. Checking in at 6’1″ and 135 pounds, he has a build similar to that of Manute Bol, a seven-foot, stick-thin former basketball player from Sudan whose career was tragically cut short by his inability to dribble, pass, or shoot.

Manson is more fortunate. He can’t sing or write song lyrics, but is nonetheless enjoying a run as one of the nation’s hottest rock stars.

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Rich Lowry

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ON stage, Marilyn Manson looks like a long pale worm. Checking in at 6’1″ and 135 pounds, he has a build similar to that of Manute Bol, a seven-foot, stick-thin former basketball player from Sudan whose career was tragically cut short by his inability to dribble, pass, or shoot.

Manson is more fortunate. He can’t sing or write song lyrics, but is nonetheless enjoying a run as one of the nation’s hottest rock stars.