17 Things Only Alice Cooper Fans Will Understand

8. He Really Wasn't A Child Actor In The 1950s, You Know

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nvclk4p6Wo One of the stories about Alice that isn€™t 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 doesn€™t 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 he€™d been like as a kid, and replied: €œI was obnoxious, disgusting, a real Eddie Haskell€. He didn€™t mean the real Eddie Haskell€ but it seems it€™s too late to correct the misapprehension now. It€™s 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 Savage€™s best mate in The Wonder Years.
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