8. He Really Wasn't A Child Actor In The 1950s, You Know
One of the stories about Alice that isnt true details his supposed past as a child star of the television show Leave It To Beaver in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Apparently, the young Vincent Furnier used the stage name Ken Osmond, and played the sneaky, duplicitous creep Eddie Haskell on the show. It doesnt seem to matter how many times Alice and those close to him deny it, or issue rumour-killing statements on this urban myth - people still believe it. It goes back to an interview with a college newspaper back in the early seventies, when he was asked what hed been like as a kid, and replied: I was obnoxious, disgusting, a real Eddie Haskell. He didnt mean the real Eddie Haskell but it seems its too late to correct the misapprehension now. Its something else he has in common with Marilyn Manson: for years, the former Brian Warner had to deal with rumours that as a kid he played Paul, Fred Savages best mate in The Wonder Years.