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Byline: Hamish Bowles
It is nightfall in suburban Los Angeles, and all is quiet. This Edward Scissorhands landscape, with its endless stretches of leafy streets set with prim, primped houses, churches, and malls, seems to be peopled with perfect nuclear families living their perfect American dreams. It is an appropriately surreal setting-think I Love Lucy meets The Munsters-for anarchic rock icon Marilyn Manson, who has emerged from a childhood out of John Waters (documented in his compellingly gruesome 1998 autobiography, The Long Hard Road Out of Hell) to become an unlikely style avatar, "one of today's true pirates with a real love of fashion," in John ...