 Some fans still believe that Manson, born Brian Warner, was the bespectacled child actor (Josh Saviano) who played Paul Pfeiffer, best friend of Kevin Arnold (Fred Savage), on the hit television show The Wonder Years, which was broadcast from 1988 to 1993. At the height of his notoriety in the mid-Nineties, Manson also got plenty of mileage out of the rumor that he had a rib removed so he could perform oral sex on himself. The list of tall tales associated with the singer is as long as his reach: He supposedly had breast implants; he replaced one eye with a testicle; he played Charlie in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Manson, a master of deception and reinvention, welcomes the rumors: They make him a continuing topic of discussion. "It's kind of irrelevant sometimes whether they are true or not," he once said. The Paul Pfeiffer one's not true . . . and Alice Cooper didn't play Eddie Haskell either.
JAMES SULLIVAN
(Posted Oct. 12, 2004)
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