Article: Marilyn Manson, nice guy.(rock musician)

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.

Manson is -- as his critics say -- certainly a symbol of American pop culture's continued race toward depravity. His latest album is titled Anti-Christ Superstar and his lyrics celebrate things like suicide, destruc- tion, and disease. But what Manson is ...

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