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As expected, Hole has decided to stop touring the US with Marilyn
Manson, effective immediately, citing "production issues," according
to the band's publicist, Gayle Fine of Q-Prime Management. The short-lived
tour has been marred by both disappointing ticket sales and bickering between
both bands. Surprisingly, Courtney Love was relatively well behaved onstage
at the final gig last week, saying only that it's been "a great tour."
She did, however, offer one apparent explanation: "I don't want to deal
with the burning crosses outside the venue."
Meanwhile, Marilyn took an onstage spill about 45 minutes into his
band's set, falling off a monitor onto his side, which aborted the show.
He was taken to Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Beverly Hills, with a severe right
ankle sprain, according to the band's publicist, Jennie Boddy. Speculation
was rampant among both fans and industry insiders that the fall was staged,
that Manson was intentionally trying to find a suitable act to replace
Hole. Some fans in attendance even thought the fall was comical at the
time as Manson was wearing a shiny silver bare bottomed outfit with high
platform boots, and when he fell, his rear end was visibly exposed as he
curled up on stage.
Marilyn is going to be getting married to his girlfriend actress
Rose McGowan. Rose revealed this engagement on the Howard Stern
radio show. "We burn Furbies together," she said when quizzed about the
pair's compatibility.
McGowan told MTV News that Marilyn had recently popped the question.
"I was in the bathtub, he lit candles, it was very nice. It was romantic,"
McGowan says about Marilyn's proposal. A spokesperson for Manson has confirmed
the announcement, but noted that the two have not yet set a date.
"It's funny because people think that we're becoming conventional,
but I think it will actually give us more freedom to be crazy," McGowan
continued when pressed for details. "The more comfortable we get with each
other, the crazier we become individually, so I actually expect him to
be ten times as crazy. I think this will totally probably free us both
up to be way more crazy, and we're the only two people in the world that
are kind of as crazy as each other, so we're perfectly compatible.
In the last year Manson has been sued for a grand total of $39 million.
Geoffrey Rush is set to star in the remake of the 1958 Vincent Price
film The House on Haunted Hill. Marilyn is in talks to play the
film's lead villain.
Marilyn and Courtney Love seemed to have put to rest their
recent feud (read Dec. 28 '98 news) announcing that they will play impending
US dates.
On new years eve the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas decided to
put some on Marilyn's other talents to work for them. The place
was being renovated so they decided to ask Marilyn for a physical contribution
to the cause. He happily obliged and moved the entire room's contents out
the window to the street below. "I usually have to pay for it," he said
later, "so I can't pass up an opportunity to destroy things for free. There's
no better place because it's the centre of evil, Las Vegas. They need me
here."
Marilyn has attacked Courtney Love for her 'exploitive' relationship
with him. In an interview with the NME he said, "Courtney never bothered
to say hi to me until I sold a million records. She's an opportunist and
I wouldn't consider her a friend...the way she's behaved towards me in
the media has seemed very exploitive. I'm not interested in being anything
to her."
Marilyn Manson's Sweet Dreams video clip was named as the number
1 scariest video by MTV, which brings out a list of the top 10 scariest
clips each halloween. Sweet Dreams has been on this list for the
past years.
KoRn's new single, Got The Life, is being remixed by former
MM guitarist, Zim Zum, as well as DJ Spooky and Mixmaster
Mike.
New album, Mechanical
Animals due out 14th September and new single, Dope Show
due out 7th September.
Guitarist, Zim Zum has departed the band. Speculation of the new
member suggest John Lowery, recent guest on David Lee Roth's last
album and member of Two, former Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford's
band.
Marilyn Manson features on the Dead Man On Campus soundtrack,
covering the old David Bowie song, Golden Years.
Twiggy Ramirez makes an appearance in the new Monster Magnet
video, Space Lord from their coming monstrous Power Trip
album. "That was pretty easy to hook up," Monster Magnet guitarist and
vocals, Dave Wyndorf says. "I've known those guys for a couple of
years and they've been Monster Magnet supporters. We were on our way from
L.A., so I called and said, 'Twiggy, want to come and do the devil sign
in a Trams Am driving though Vegas?' He was like, 'Hell yeah!'"
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