Marilyn Manson

This is the article about the person Marilyn Manson, not to be confused with Marilyn Manson, the band.

Marilyn Manson

Brian Hugh Warner (born January 5, 1969), better known by his stage name Marilyn Manson, is a musician and artist known for his outrageous stage persona and image as the lead singer of the band that bears the same name. His stage name was formed from the names Marilyn Monroe and Charles Manson, showing what he considered the ultimate and most disturbing dualism of American culture. The name was the binding of good and evil, he wrote in his autobiography, 'The Long Hard Road Out Of Hell', that people always asked him about the 'Manson' part of his name and not the 'Marilyn' part.

Marriage

Manson and Dita Von Teese started dating on Manson's 32nd birthday, and Manson proposed three years later on 22 March 2004. On 3 December 2005 (court documents say 28 November) , the couple were married in a non-denominational ceremony at Gurteen Castle in Kilsheelan, County Tipperary, Ireland, the home of Gottfried Helnwein. The wedding was officiated by surrealist film director and comic book writer Alejandro Jodorowsky. Dita wore a royal purple silk taffeta gown by Vivienne Westwood, complete with train and petticoats worn over a Mr. Pearl couture corset, topped off by a tricorner hat by Stephen Jones, while Manson wore a John Galliano black silk taffeta tuxedo with velvet trim and a hat also crafted by Stephen Jones. They reportedly exchanged vows in front of approximately 60 guests, including burlesque dancer Catherine Delish, Lisa Marie Presley, Eric Szmanda, David Lynch, Jessicka and Christian Hejnal, and Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne. Vogue magazine ran a multiple-page feature on the wedding in its February 2006 issue. Just before his own wedding, Manson criticized Britney Spears's wedding to Kevin Federline, in which they celebrated by wearing personalized tracksuits: "If you're going to do something like getting married, it should have a sense of celebration to it. It should be grand and not in tracksuits!" However, the marriage did not last very long. In her own words, Von Teese said "I had all the faith in the world in our relationship for the seven years we were together. I loved him very much, and when I married him I completely believed it would be forever...Everything went downhill after we got married. I started working a lot to escape my home life."

Reports of January 30, 2007 stated Manson and Dita Von Teese reportedly split after her filing for divorce due to "irreconcilable differences" according to Von Teese. ET.com along with People had claimed that Manson was having an extramarital affair with 19 year old actress Evan Rachel Wood, which may have been the true cause of the split. An affair was later confirmed when Von Teese was quoted as telling Britain's Sunday Telegraph, "I get the impression he thinks I was unsupportive. But the truth is I wasn't supportive of his lifestyle, and someone else came along who was." However, it should be noted that Von Teese has refused to mention Evan Rachel Wood by name. Manson's alcohol abuse and distant behavior were also cited as cause for the split. Von Teese mentioned their lifestyle differences in the same interview saying "I wasn't supportive about his partying or his relationship with another girl, and as much as I loved him I wasn't going to be part of that." Marilyn Manson himself has not spoken out about his split from Von Teese in recent interviews, though he has alluded to their split and subsequent relationship with Wood in a recent interview with Rolling Stone ; it was this interview that prompted Von Teese to address their divorce in her subsequent interviews.

It had also been claimed that Manson was not aware of Dita's filing for divorce and moving out of their home at the time that the story was published, conceivably due to his reported stay in Paris, France. However, in later interviews, Manson has stated he was recording his upcoming album when Von Teese left. Von Teese reportedly took their two cats, Lily and Aleister, and two dachshunds, Greta and Eva, with her when she left, possibly because Manson had not been present at the marital home for some time. Manson is fighting for custody of the two cats, but not the dogs. Marilyn Manson told in various interviews that his upcoming album "Eat Me, Drink Me" (due to be released June 5th 2007 through interscope) was inspired by his private problems.

Evan Rachel Wood attended the grand opening of Manson's new Celebritarian Corporation Gallery of Fine Art and among the most notable artworks were two portraits of Evan. She was to co-star in his upcoming horror film Phantasmagoria: The Visions of Lewis Carroll.

Career

In music

Main article: Marilyn Manson (band)

Jessicka Fodera of the band Jack Off Jill was an early friend of Manson; her band opened most of his South Florida shows. He not only produced most of the band's early recordings but also played guitar on the song "My Cat" and helped name the band.

In early 1993, after being instructed by his new label Nothing/Interscope to not play any local shows, Manson formed Mrs. Scabtree, a side project with newly-hired Jeordie White. Manson played drums, while White (dressed as a black woman) shared vocal duties with then-girlfriend Jessicka from Jack Off Jill who wore a blonde wig. Mrs. Scabtree only played two shows in South Florida.

After an invitation from Trent Reznor, Manson "pretended to play guitar" in one of the music videos for Nine Inch Nails' song "Gave Up".

Manson appeared as a guest on rapper DMX's album Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood for the track "The Omen", produced by Swizz Beats, and performed (with the rest of the band) on stage with Eminem as background music in the song "The Way I Am".

Manson sang vocals on "Break You Down" off of the Washington, DC-based industrial rock band Godhead's 2000 Years of Human Error album. This album is distinguished for being the only one released on Manson's vanity label Posthuman.

In film and television

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Marilyn Manson's cameo in the Murderdolls video "Dead in Hollywood"

Manson made a cameo appearance as a doctor in the Murderdolls' music video "Dead in Hollywood", and also appears in the Nine Inch Nails music video "Starfuckers, Inc.", as well as "Gave Up", and Eminem's "The Way I Am" music video.

His first appearance in a film was in the role of a pornographic actor in David Lynch's Lost Highway, in 1997. He also had a minor role in former love interest Rose McGowan's 1998 film Jawbreaker. Manson made a cameo appearance in a short film in the BMW Films series (starring Clive Owen as the Driver), which featured James Brown as himself, and Gary Oldman as Satan. His most talked-about film cameo was in the Michael Moore political documentary Bowling for Columbine discussing the motivations of the perpetrators and allegations that his music was somehow a factor. He played himself, in animated form, on an episode of the television series Clone High, in which he sang a song about nutrition and the food pyramid. Manson portrayed a psychotic drag queen named Christina in the movie Party Monster which is based on the events leading up to and the murder of Angel Melendez by the infamous Michael Alig (played in the movie by Macaulay Culkin) of club kid fame. He is featured prominently throughout Not Another Teen Movie, and covered the song Tainted Love for that movie.

His music is frequently featured on the show CSI: Crime Scene Investigation The character Greg Sanders is a big fan of Manson and the actor who plays him, Eric Szmanda, is a personal friend of Manson and also appeared in Manson's music video for (s)AINT.

Manson was featured in the 2004 film The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things, and is set to appear in Abelcain, directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky, and Living Neon Dreams in 2005. He is also a bartender in a vampire movie starring Lucy Liu called Rise.

In July 2005, Manson told Rolling Stone magazine that he was shifting his focus from music to film making - "I just don't think the world is worth putting music into right now. I no longer want to make art that other people--particularly record companies--are turning into a product. I just want to make art." He is currently working on his directorial debut, Phantasmagoria: The Visions of Lewis Carroll, which was put on his website around the end of 2006. The film is said to feature special effects using a magician rather than computer-generated imagery.

In art

From the beginning Manson has painted, the oldest of his surviving pieces dating back to 1995-1996 but it was after his 1998 grey period that Manson began his career as a watercolor painter in 1999 when he made five-minute concept pieces and sold them to drug dealers with their knowledge that they would accumulate in value over time. Gradually Manson became more drawn to watercolors as an art form , and instead of trading them, kept them and continued to paint at a proficent rate.

This manic creativity resulted in an exhibit for his art, The Golden Age of Grotesque, held at the Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions Centre on September 13-14, 2002. The reaction to his paintngs was largely positive with one critic comparing them to Egon Schiele’s pieces and describing them as ‘heartfelt’ and ‘sincerely painted’. Art in America went as far as to liken them to the works of a ‘pyschiatric paitent given materials to use as therapy’. Others saw less merit in the works stating that the value was only ‘in the celebrity’.

Two years later almost to the day on September 14-15, 2004 Manson held his second exhibit on the first night in Paris and the second in Berlin with the name ‘Trismegistus’ which was also the title of the centre piece of the exhibit – a large three headed Christ painted onto an antique wood panel. Again the reception to the works could be described as mixed but was largely in favor of the artist.

Manson opened his own an art gallery, The Celebritarian Corporation Gallery of Fine Art, on October 31, 2006 in Los Angeles for which his third exhibition (by invitation or appointment only after the opening night) was the inaugral show. From April 2-17, 2007 Manson's recent works were on show at the Space 39 Modern & Contemporary in Florida.

A coffee table art book is said to be forthcoming, initially titled The Death of Art the last given title was Quintif.

In Video Games

Marilyn Manson made an appearance in the Video game Area 51 as an ancient and powerful grey alien.

Professional Relationships

Fallout with Trent Reznor

One of Manson's high-profile relationships, the defunct friendship with Trent Reznor, was marked with mutual bitterness and perhaps vendetta. This started in the mid-90s, when Manson was due to make a track that would appear on the soundtrack to David Lynch's Lost Highway, but instead Reznor was the one who wrote a song, "The Perfect Drug", for the film. In 1999, it seemed the two artists had patched their differences, as Manson made an appearance in the video for the Nine Inch Nails song "Starfuckers, Inc."

In a 2005 interview, Manson said Reznor's Nothing Records had lost the master recordings of Manson's first three albums. He implied it was Reznor's intention, "Now that Nothing Records doesn't exist, I think there's only one of two people responsible for that. Out of those two people, there's only one that really has an opinion of me that is voiced very often."

Fallout with Twiggy Ramirez

In May 2002, Twiggy Ramirez (real name Jeordie White) left the band, citing differences in perspective on the band's future. He went on to play bass for A Perfect Circle and he now plays for Nine Inch Nails. Manson claimed in interviews that he and Twiggy were still close friends, while Jeordie maintains that he rarely spoke to Manson after his departure. In a February 2006 interview, Twiggy stated he was willing to record an album with Manson if the right conditions were met. In autumn 2006, Manson and Twiggy were photographed together in amicable poses at numerous parties in Los Angeles.

Fallout with John 5

John 5's reasons for leaving Marilyn Manson were cited as being mutual, despite the mysterious nature of his sudden firing by Manson's manager in 2004.

John was quoted at the time as saying about the incident, "I don't know. . . I was nothing but nice to him," he continued. "I never screwed up onstage — well not really badly — and I did everything I could to get along with him. Maybe, just maybe, it had something to do with the fact that I don't drink or do drugs, and he's not like that at all. Maybe he held that against me. I don't know. He never said." John5 was notorious among fans as being drug and alcohol free.

Before the incident, Manson had assaulted John on stage, notably, Manson kicked John in the face during a televised performance, leading to a brief confrontation in front of a packed and roaring audience (available on YouTube). This was during the intro to 'The Beautiful People', when played at the Rock AM Ring 2003.

Also, during the tour John maintains that Manson spoke about matters other than business only once, "It was on my birthday, and he turned to me and said, 'Happy birthday, faggot' — then walked away"

Despite this, John maintains he respects Manson, citing his skilled production style and his love for the band's music. John was already a fan of the band before joining in 1998.

Lawsuits

• In a civil battery suit, David Diaz, a security officer from a concert in Minneapolis, Minnesota on October 27, 2000, sued for $75,000 in a Minneapolis federal court. The federal court jury found in Manson's favor.
• In a civil suit presented by Oakland County, Michigan, Manson was charged with sexual misconduct against another security officer, Joshua Keasler, during a concert in Clarkston, Michigan on July 30, 2001. Oakland County originally filed assault & battery and criminal sexual misconduct charges, but the judge reduced the latter charge to misdemeanor disorderly conduct. Manson pleaded no contest to the reduced charges, paid a $4,000 fine, and later settled the lawsuit under undisclosed terms.

Major label discography

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Eat Me, Drink Me, (Marilyn Manson), 2007

Main article: Marilyn Manson discography

• Portrait of an American Family (1994)
• Smells Like Children (1995)
• Antichrist Superstar (1996)
• Remix and Repent (1997)
• Mechanical Animals (1998)
• The Last Tour on Earth (1999)
• Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death) (2000)
• The Golden Age of Grotesque (2003)
• Lest We Forget (2004)
• Eat Me, Drink Me (2007)

Filmography

• Lost Highway (1997)
• Spawn (1997)
• Jawbreaker (1999)
• Clone High (2000)
• From Hell (score, 2001)
• Not Another Teen Movie (score, 2001)
• Resident Evil (score, 2002)
• Bowling for Columbine (interview, 2002)
• The Hire: Beat The Devil (2003)
• Party Monster (2003)
• Doppelherz (director, 2003)
• The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things (2004)
• House of Wax (2005) (score)
• Living Neon Dreams (2006)
• Rise (2006)
• Phantasmagoria: The Visions of Lewis Carroll (acting, directing, writing, score, 2007)
• Untitled Departed sequel (TBA)

Autobiography

• The Long Hard Road Out of Hell (1998)

External links

• Manson's Official Website
• Marilyn Manson Artwork Online
• Marilyn Manson at IMDb
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• Manson's Official Myspace

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