For quite some time, I was concerned (as were we all) about Evan Rachel Wood, mostly due to her on-off-relationship with Marilyn Manson that lasted four years and eventually ended in a broken engagement. These days, I don’t worry so much about her, for the 23-year old actress seems remarkably resilient after spending a significant (4-year) chunk of her life with, well, the likes of Marilyn Manson. How she made it through the ordeal without some serious PTSD is beyond me, but even during the height of that horrific-looking relationship, Wood was always known for her professionalism and lack of starlet behavior. Refreshing, isn’t it?

Soon, Wood shall be co-starring in The Ides of March with George Clooney, and the girl can even pull off the most fug outfits on the red carpet (as she did at The Conspirator premiere). Meanwhile, she’s winning rave reviews for her performance in Mildred Pierce. Since I don’t have HBO, I’ve not yet watched Pierce, but CB thinks that Wood is great at playing a character that is “truly evil and conniving” in the miniseries. Oh, and remember all of that talk of the merkin affair? Well, you can see that (obviously NSFW) hot merkin action right here if you’re curious.

Wood recently sat down with NyMag to discuss all of her current projects, and the interview took a very enlightening turn towards the topic of exactly why she dated Manson in the first place:

On Impressing Redford: At Evan Rachel Wood’s first meeting with Robert Redford, who was looking to cast her as a Confederate daughter in his Lincoln-­assassination drama, The Conspirator (out April 15), the actress fixed her gaze on him intently enough that Redford later told her, “ ’You were so intimidating, I had no idea what you were thinking.’ ” Wood exults at the memory. “I was, like, Yeeessss!” she says, performing a reverse elbow-jack to the torso. “I got Redford.”

On Her Role As Veda Pierce: “It’s the hardest role I’ve ever had to do, ever, absolutely,” says Wood, who–even though she wasn’t doing her own singing–trained for months with an opera coach, just to get the breathing and gestures right. Guy Pearce, who shared a trailer with Wood, could hear her practicing her vocals daily. “All I wanted to do was stick my head in and say, Do you mind if I watch?” he says. When they reviewed footage, he says, “Kate and I were looking at each other, and Todd and Kate were looking at one another, going, ‘Oh, wow.’ ”

On Why She Dated Manson: Wood’s own mother was an actress who, upon divorcing her husband when Evan was 9, moved to L.A. and quit acting to become a drama coach and concentrate on her daughter’s career. During the filming of Thirteen, Wood had to banish her from the set in order to shoot some of the R-rated scenes, and when she was 18, she moved to New York to put some physical distance between them. “We had a bad breakup,” she says. “We hadn’t been apart for more than a week my whole life. We shared a room, we shared a bed. She was constantly by my side, all the time, until the minute I turned 18. I hopped on ­[Marilyn Manson's] tour bus, and was like, I’m going to have an adolescence.” As mother-estrangement maneuvers go, appearing in a rock video in which you are doused in gore while making out with your goth boyfriend is hard to beat. “I didn’t really get a normal childhood,” says Wood. “Manson gave me what I felt I’d missed out on, where you get to experiment and cut loose and change and grow. I lived 50 lifetimes in those four years.”

On Her Alleged Bieber Fever: “I’m really enjoying being single and concentrating on work right now. That and watching the Food Network and listening to Justin Bieber,” she says, showing off her purple Bieber hat, as sure a sign as any that her Manson years are over. “People honestly think I’m kidding about Bieber,” she says. “My mom is so confused. She’s like, ‘Evan, really?’ I’m like, ‘Go see Never Say Never. You’ll understand.’ “

[From NyMag]

Okay, now the Manson relationship makes a bit more sense considering the revelations of Wood’s fairly stifling family situation. Thank goodness she finally woke up and dumped that “shock rocker” loser. I’m still having a hard time believing that she’s truly knocking back with Bieber music in her spare time. How is that even possible? Maybe she’s just messing with all of us.

Photo note by Kaiser: These are pics of ERW at last night’s NYC premiere of ‘The Conspirator’, courtesy of WENN.

Evan Rachel Wood is the November cover girl for Nylon. I can’t say I care much for this photo shoot, but I guess it’s not aimed at me. It just seems like you’d want to not go for the bleached white background when your cover girl is really pale. ERW looks like a ghost. Instead of being stylish, it’s antiseptic. Whatever. Anyway, in the interview excerpts (here at Nylon), ERW is sketchy too. Now, I’ve always felt ERW was a strange girl just in general, but her on-and-off relationship with Marilyn Manson (it’s currently “off”) adds to general atmosphere of ERW being a weird, troubled young woman. In the Nylon interview, she talks about her off-again relationship with Marilyn, saying, “I mean, dating Marilyn Manson… it’s kind of impossible to keep that out of the spotlight… He had a hand in raising me! Oh, I’m always gonna love that guy. He’s a genius, he’s an amazing artist, we’re still friends. Some things just aren’t meant to be.” Oh, Evan. You poor, poor girl.

For November’s America issue, we needed a cover girl who was smart, fearless, and cool – essential traits of our readers all over the country. Nursing our True Blood obsession and our thrill of young talent, we turned to Evan Rachel Wood, who’s graced our cover three times before. The North Carolina native seemed like a perfect choice to star on our cover – both in her photos and her interview. See snippets of both below, then get the entire story in our November issue, on stands tomorrow.

On Kate Winslet coaxing her into doing a nude scene:
“I always had a rule that I was only going to do topless and never the whole package, I have to have some kind of mystery! But she then explained to me what a merkin was…”

On Marilyn Manson
“I mean, dating Marilyn Manson… it’s kind of impossible to keep that out of the spotlight… He had a hand in raising me! Oh, I’m always gonna love that guy. He’s a genius, he’s an amazing artist, we’re still friends. Some things just aren’t meant to be.”

On her next musical role:
“I wanna play Janis Joplin. Can I just claim that now please?… Across the Universe is not how I sing- that was very pretty. I sing more like Janis, rough and loud.”

On George Clooney:
“He goes, ‘You’re really good at going from innocent to sexy in the drop of a hat,’ and I was like, ‘I don’t know what you’re talking about!”

[From Nylon]

Considering ERW met and fell for Marilyn when she was… 18 or 19 years old, yes, I understand how Marilyn had “a hand” in raising her. Think about what you were like at that age, and imagine falling in love with… that. That thing. You’re going to come out warped, no matter what. But I have to ask: where are this girl’s parents?

Also: It sounds like Clooney was hitting on her, correct? F-cking Clooney.

Nylon photos courtesy of Pop Crunch.

I hope this is the last time, don’t you? People Magazine got confirmation that Marilyn Manson and Evan Rachel Wood have split for, like, the billionth time (I actually think it’s the third time, maybe?). They’ve been doing the on-and-off thing for so many years that I’m not even going to try to backtrack and trace all of the splits and reconciliations. Suffice to say that at one point last year, they were broken up, then Marilyn announced last December that they were back on, and there was even vague talk of an engagement back in January. People’s sources say there was an engagement too – and that it’s now over:

Talk about on-again, off-again: Marilyn Manson and actress Evan Rachel Wood ended their engagement last week, a source tells PEOPLE.

The newly single Manson, 41, then hit the town Saturday night, dining at L.A’s STK and clubbing at next door Boudoir with a group including a brunette named Twiggy and former Playmate of the Year Colleen Shannon.

“They just broke off their engagement, and he needed a night out with friends,” says another source.

While together, the shock rocker proposed to the True Blood actress, 22, during a January stage performance in Paris, according to reports.

The two began dating in 2006 but then broke up in 2008, when Wood was linked briefly to actor Shane West. They reconciled for a short time, only to split again before becoming engaged last January.

[From People]

I want to think ERW pulled the plug this time, hopefully because she finally grew up and realized how uncool MM is and how she could do so much better. Because she can – and should. But maybe she should just be alone for a little while, because I get the feeling she’s pretty screwed up. That’s probably what attracted an a–hole like Marilyn Manson to her in the first place.

Here are those photos of Marilyn leaving a club with another woman on Friday:

One month ago, Marilyn Manson announced in an interview that he and Evan Rachel Wood were back together. Evan and Marilyn have a tortured (and torturing) history together and apart (you can go here for a summary), and most people’s reactions when learning of their reunion was along the lines of “Dear God, that poor girl… what’s wrong with her? What’s wrong with him? Mother of…” I’m just paraphrasing. The most recent guy that ERW had been connected to was Alexander Skarsgard, so I have no idea what is going through her mind at this point.

Goth rocker Marilyn Manson, 41 today, has proposed to his actress girlfriend Evan Rachel Wood.

The singer – the ex of burlesque pin-up Dita Von Teese – proposed on stage in Paris on Monday night.

A delighted Evan, 22, said: “Yes!” Imagine what a show the wedding will be…

[From The Mirror]

And the transformation of ERW to Dita Von Teese will be complete once ERW wears a purple Vivienne Westwood as a wedding dress, and then divorces Marilyn only months later. Seriously. It will be like that Alfred Hitchcock movie Rebecca, and ERW will walk around, starring at haunting photos and paintings of Dita. Also, isn’t proposing on stage totally cheesy? I would think Marilyn would be too “cool” for something like that.

Evan Rachel Wood and Marilyn Manson in Germany on April 22, 2007. Credit: WENN.

Good Lord, is Evan Rachel Wood deranged? Coming straight from the horse’s (ass) mouth, Marilyn Manson confirms that he and ERW are back together. For a brief recap, back in late 2006/early 2007, ERW may have broken up Manson’s marriage to Dita Von Teese, or maybe he just left Dita and started up with ERW very quickly – the timeline is sketchy. Anyway, they began dating, and it was wrong.

ERW, then 18 years old, tried to become a little Dita clone and she and Manson had a famously dysfunctional and gross relationship. Then, in late 2008, ERW dumped him. Then she took him back a few months later. Then they broke up again, and Manson said he “made the mistake of trying to, desperately, grasp on and save that and own it. And every time I called her that day — I called 158 times — I took a razorblade and I cut myself on my face or on my hands…I have fantasies every day about smashing her skull in with a sledgehammer.” After that, ERW dated other guys, like Shane West and Alexander Skarsgard. For the love of God, she went from Skarsgard back to Manson! GAH!

Marilyn Manson has reunited with actress Evan Rachel Wood (The Wrestler, Across The Universe), after splitting very acrimoniously with her last year.

Manson revealed he and Wood had reunited in an interview with Metal Hammer magazine, when he was asked how he keeps going despite continually being in dark places in his life.

“I think I’m not afraid to be me,” he told the magazine. “Sometimes [it] happens when you get to this point in your career, and there are so many things that have happened and influences that you’ve had, besides the influences of the things that have inspired you.”

“Sometimes you feel awkward being what you’re best at, you feel like you have to be something new. But I think that a lot of people will agree that me being me at my best [is what] I need to be. I think that really paid off because I’m back with Evan, that’s kind of breaking news, you can be the first one to say that.”

Manson also says he and his band of the same name are free from their contract with Interscope after having released their seventh studio album, The High End Of Low, in May.

“We’ve just been released from our record contract with Interscope so I think a lot of the creative control on which my hands were tied on a lot of choices — the music videos — things like that,” he said, when asked what was new in his life. “And the first example is the newest video, they clearly wouldn’t have allowed me to make that video.”

Manson was referring to the recently released clip for “Running To The Edge Of The World,” in which he murders a woman. When the video came out last month, many media outlets pointed out the woman resembled Wood.

Manson says being free of his contract also liberalizes how he’ll record in the future.

“We started writing new songs on the road — a bit like [David Bowie's] Aladdin Sane — I think people can expect a new record a lot sooner than we [expected].”

[From Chart Attack]

Jesus. I get a headache just reading his words. I don’t know how I’d be able to function if I actually had to spend some time with him, much less… heave… have sex with him. What the hell does Manson have on her? Does he have some kind of hold? Is sex that great with him? Why isn’t ERW able to cut her losses and get the hell away from him? Granted, I’m not her biggest fan, but even I feel for the girl when she’s with Manson.

Older photos of ERW and MM on April 20 and 22, 2007, in Germany. Credit: WENN

What word comes to your mind when you hear the name “Marilyn Manson”? Do you think to yourself “classy”? Or perhaps you think “relevant”? Congratulations, one person. The rest of us think he’s pretty sad and douchetastic. So, Marilyn has confirmed that he has been temporarily felled by a case of the swine flu. Epic. But Marilyn can’t just say “Swine flu, chicken broth, blah, blah”. He has to make a “joke” about “pig f-cking” and ex-girlfriends. Because you can’t spell “classy” without A-S-S.

Marilyn Manson’s voracious appetite for the high life may not yet have caught up with him, but he has been felled by a potentially deadly virus. Yes, the self-styled “God of F-ck” has gone down with a bout of swine flu, temporarily putting his career as an aging goth-rocker on hold.

“So I have officially been diagnosed, by a real doctor, with THE SWINE FLU,” he said.

“I know everyone will suggest that f-cking a pig is how this disease was obtained. However, the doctor said, my past choices in women have in no way contributed to me acquiring this mysterious sickness. Unfortunately, I am going to survive.”

Manson’s career has reached such a low point that he was churning out songs that had lapsed painfully into self-parody (I’m looking at you, “Pretty as a Swastika”). And his fans weren’t enamored, with this year’s The High End of Low hitting an all-time sales slump for Manson, and his interviews around the record sinking into desperate cliché.

[From Prefix Magazine]

Back in June, Marilyn did an interview with Spin in which he described a piece of art he made with condoms, and described how he hadn’t used them in a while: “I had two condoms — alien things to me, I haven’t seen them in 25 years — and I threw them on the mirror, and they stuck, and they formed this piece of modern art.” This was the same interview where Marilyn described how he felt about ex-girlfriend Evan Rachel Wood: “I have fantasies every day about smashing her skull in with a sledgehammer.” So, I guess we can assume that Marilyn’s swine flu joke was about Evan (just a guess). Although, without condoms for 25 years, I can only guess that he has probably distributed more than his fair share of viruses, diseases, and goth crabs.

Marilyn Manson is involved in an online feud with a music writer that would be amusing if it wasn’t so pitiful. The aging goth rocker has issued death threats against journalists, particularly one who dared to describe an encounter with him in unflattering terms. Buddyhead.com founder Travis Keller told LA Weekly in an interview published last week that he once met Manson at a party in 2007 and was surprised at how lame he was. Manson had a beer gut, did a lot of cocaine and acted paranoid, and only knew one Led Zeppelin song. Manson’s then-girlfriend Evan Rachel Wood was there, and Manson kept telling the guy “don’t try to f*ck my girlfriend.” It was one guy’s impression of a single meeting and Manson could have easily let it go.

Instead Manson got all bent out of shape and defensive. He updated his status on MySpace with threatening messages like “kill all journalists that have the cowardice to be anonymous,” and then penned a blog entry saying he’d show up at any reporter’s home that dared to talk smack about him. He seemed to do this without any sense of irony at all:

Marilyn Manson has issued a warning on his MySpace blog against journalists who write “cavalier statements” about himself or his band, saying there will be repercussions for the “soon-to-be-murdered-in-their-home press” if he spies any more fabrications. “If one more ‘journalist’ makes a cavalier statement about me and my band, I will personally or with my fans’ help, greet them at their home and discover just how much they believe in their freedom of speech,” Manson warns. “I dare you all to write one more thing that you won’t say to my face. Because I will make you say it. In that manner. That is a threat.”

Manson’s comments are reportedly a reaction to a recent L.A. Weekly interview with Buddyhead.com founder Travis Keller, who talked about what it was like to meet Manson in 2007. Keller paints Manson as a paranoid cocaine addict (Keller said the first thing that Manson asked him was “Can you get us some cocaine?”) who walked around in a side-turned Von Dutch hat. “I was like, ‘You’re Marilyn Manson?’ I remember thinking he’s going to come out with some kind of cape on,” Keller told L.A. Weekly, “I’d never met him before and thought he’d be hanging out in a coffin. He’s nothing like that.” Keller went on to say that Manson’s girlfriend at the time, insinuating actress Evan Rachel Wood, was nicknamed “Snowflake” because “when they played shows, she’d hold all the coke.”

Though when Manson talked to Rock Daily in January 2008, he told us about how the Led Zeppelin reunion in November 2007 inspired his own reconciliation with Twiggy Ramirez. However, Keller claims Manson only knew one Zeppelin song (”Stairway to Heaven”) and got bored at Zep’s reunion concert after the song was played. In Manson’s defense, his statements to Rolling Stone seem quite genuine.

In a post titled “Marilyn Manson is a big man on the internet!,” Buddyhead writer Meathead responded to Manson’s threats, adding fuel to the fire by writing, “I’m trying to visualize a scenario in which Marilyn Manson actually acquires my home address, achieves a mental state that’s close enough to sobriety to allow him to successfully type it into Google and print out the directions, and then makes it all the way over here without getting distracted and sucking off a vagrant along the way,” Meathead writes.

[From Marilyn Manson's MySpace]

Manson doesn’t like what’s written about him, so he makes threats that he’ll show up at people’s homes and force them to look at pictures of his wee willy. He can’t argue his drugged-out point at all so he’s trying to scare people. Instead he comes off looking like even more of a poser. Keller’s thoughts on Manson were pretty mild compared to the idiotic interview that Manson gave Spin Magazine last month. It was presented without any commentary and Manson made a complete fool of himself, bragging about making abstract art with a used condom, saying he cut himself hundreds of times with razor blades in the wake of his breakup with Evan Rachel Wood, and that he had “fantasies every day about smashing her skull in with a sledgehammer.” Manson can’t blame Spin for his own inane statements, so he’s focusing on a guy who just called it like he saw it.

Keller has some advice for Manson, and is not all worried about the threats. “Marilyn Manson is really pissed at Buddyhead cause we called him a fat cokehead poser. Well, MAN-the-f*ck-UP Tubby! Everything we said is true! Plus your last record only sold 49,000 copies so you should be stoked ANYONE is still writing about you, man. I mean there’s really no point crying about it.”

Marilyn Manson is shown signing copies of his album at Hot Topic in LA on 5/22/09. Credit: WENN.com. Header image is from 5/12/09. Credit: PacificCoastNews.com

Shock rocker Marilyn Manson has a new very long interview with Spin. They reveal that they chatted on the phone with the 39 year-old musician for two hours, and you can tell. It’s hard to tell where fantasy ends and reality begins for Manson. Even if he’s putting us on with most of this, and/or it’s the drugs talking, he still seems to be one messed up guy who is alternately fighting and embracing his demons. Manson talks about making concept art with used condoms, doing drugs and self-harming in the wake of his break up with Evan Rachel Wood, 21. He also claims that he thinks about “smashing her skull in with a sledgehammer” every day. He is promoting his new album High End of Low and nothing earns headlines like pure crazy:

On his condom concept art
Good…. I was going to email you a photograph I just took. It’s of a new piece of modern art I created. Let’s call this work my Jack-off Pollack, of sorts. I had two condoms — alien things to me, I haven’t seen them in 25 years — and I threw them on the mirror, and they stuck, and they formed this piece of modern art. And I can’t decide what to call it. I’m thinking about calling it “I Don’t Want You to be Cursed With My Retarded Child,” or “It’s Not Just Love, It’s a Lifestyle,” because they were Lifestyle condoms.

On wanting to kill Evan Rachel Wood
My lowest point was Christmas Day 2008, because I didn’t speak to my family. My walls were covered in scrawlings of the lyrics and cocaine bags nailed to the wall. And I did have an experience where I was struggling to deal with being alone and being forsaken and being betrayed by putting your trust in one person, and making the mistake of that being the wrong person. And that’s a mistake that everyone can relate to. I made the mistake of trying to, desperately, grasp on and save that and own it. And every time I called her that day — I called 158 times — I took a razorblade and I cut myself on my face or on my hands.

I look back and it was a really stupid thing to do. This was intentional, this was a scarification, and this was like a tattoo. I wanted to show her the pain she put me through. It was like, “I want you to physically see what you’ve done.” It sounds made up but it’s completely true and I don’t give a shit if people believe it or not. I’ve got the scars to prove it. I didn’t want people to ask me every time I did an interview, “Oh, is this record about your relationship with your ex-girlfriend?” But that damage is part of it, and the song “I Want to Kill You Like They Do in The Movies” is about my fantasies. I have fantasies every day about smashing her skull in with a sledgehammer.

On the eighth grader in Louisiana who said “Hail Marilyn Manson” before shooting a teacher
And of course, a couple weeks ago that eighth grader said, “Hail Marilyn Manson,” then shot a teacher. It’s surprising because on the first song on the record, “Arma-Goddamned-Motherf’in-Geddon,” I say, “F$^@ the TV and the radio, I’m gonna take credit for the death toll.” It’s all I get blamed for. I don’t get credit for anything else. So if I’m going to get blamed for it, I want credit for it. I’m not saying I agree with it, but I’m not saying I don’t agree with it. I’m not going to be some kind of PC, tree-hugger. I’m the last person that causes harm in the world, and if people are worried about what my music does, why isn’t anyone saying, “Hey, shouldn’t we worry about what he does?” Besides throwing used rubbers on the wall…

Initial reaction: Where did he get the gun… and why can’t I get one? It’s shocking to me that it’s easier to buy a gun at Wal-Mart than it is to buy my record. And it’s entertainment, it’s music, but that doesn’t mean it has no value. In no way would I say that what I do is just entertainment. In fact, I love to insult shit that I don’t like by saying, “Wow, it must be art, because it’s not entertaining.” But it’s just ironic that they can sell a CD in a store, and they won’t put the title “Pretty As a Swastika” on the cover, but at the same store they’ll have Valkyrie, for example, which has a Swastika on the cover. Now, I’m not even using the symbol, I’m using the word, so the record company sort of created a new curse word, by default, for me.

Alludes that he was broke at one point, loves drugs & sex
My decisions are based on art and I have the ability to do that, and not because I can retire on a f’ing island. I have nothing, I’ve lost everything, and I’ve got it back, and I’m happy to live in hotel, as long as I can feed my cat, get beautiful girls to do terrible things they shouldn’t do with me, and pay for absinthe and drugs — that’s rock’n'roll. Of course, there’s art to it. Of course I’m a painter, and of course I want to say things, but I’m not going to f’ing sell myself out anymore. When I make a record, the music that I record and the thing I’m going to play live, that’s my album. Whatever they want to put in a package, that’s their product. Why would you want to censor the word “f$^@” out of a song? Really, who doesn’t want “f%$@”? The more f#%^, the better. In life, it’s metaphor — the more f#%^s, the more fun. Hey, it’s only a couple letters off from fun.

[From Spin]

In an interview published in April, Evan Rachel Wood said that she was back with Marilyn Manson. I guess she finds self-harming endearing somehow. Hopefully these two have since split, and it definitely sounds like it if Manson is still spouting off about how he wants to kill her.

How gross is it that Manson admits he loves groupies but never uses condoms? I really don’t get Manson, but I think that’s the point. He’s smart enough, but it’s all scrambled up and confused. He’s clearly on something that is making him so chatty, violent and defensive of his right to be offensive for his “art”. What do you say about a guy who admits he fantasizes daily about killing his ex girlfriend and sort-of embraces it when child killers use his name as some kind of rallying call? He needs help. I guess that’s all there is to say. Oh, and he’s starting to look like Boy George.

Marilyn Manson is shown on 5/22/09 signing copies of his album at Hot Topic in Hollywood. He’s also shown on 5/22/09 with his bassist Ziggy in London. Credit: WENN.com

Evan Rachel Wood, 21, was first linked with shock rocker Marilyn Manson, 40, in January 2007. Their relationship is said to have hastened the end of Manson’s marriage to Dita Von Teese. Many called Wood “Dita 2.0″ as she adopted a Dita-like retro style during their relationship with red lips and thickly penciled eyebrows. The two broke up in November of last year with Wood confirming the news to the press but adding “I’m always going to love [Manson] and respect him… It’s life – it happens.”

Wood was promoting The Wrestler at the time, and denied rumors of a relationship with her on-screen father, Mickey Rourke. She was also linked to “3rd Rock From The Sun” cutie Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who seemed much more her speed. In the months following her split from Manson, Wood dyed her hair strawberry blonde and generally looked a lot happier.

Unfortunately Wood recently told GQ magazine that she’s back with Manson again. Wood and Manson were seen in February leaving a hotel, but if they’ve been together since they’ve been keeping a low profile. He was briefly linked to another look-alike last year, but that must not have lasted:

Evan Rachel Wood is wild.

For one, she tells the May issue of GQ that she and Goth-rock shockmeister Marylin Manson, with whom she once shot a blood-spattered sex scene in a music video, are back on.

She also claims that reports that she and “The Wrestler” co-star Mickey Rourke, 56, had a thang are bunk.

“There was no truth to it, and it was so annoying,” said Wood, 21. “The friendship was intimate and nice, and this makes it weird.”

Next wild thing up for Wood? Her first Woody Allen flick, where she plays a runaway who marries … wait for it … Larry David.

Yes, the old bald guy from “Curb Your Enthusiasm.”

Told ya she was wild.

[From Foxnews.com]

While Manson comes across as an intelligent, articulate, somewhat shy person in interviews I can’t help but think he’s a lousy boyfriend. He cheated on Dita with Wood and it seemed like he was seeking a young replacement that would emulate and look up to him as opposed to independent Dita. In a recent interview, Dita hinted that Manson tried to reconcile, saying “He’s been in touch a little. The apologies come, and he was like, ‘I made a big mistake’.'” Outlets interpreted this as an attempt to get back together, but maybe Manson was just trying to heal old wounds. Do you think he turned to Wood after Dita told him to get lost?

Photos are from GQ via Huffington Post.

After Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson broke up, LiLo decided it was time for a change. Off to the hair salon to get a red dye job on her real hair and extensions. The day before, she had gotten a tattoo on her inner wrist with a Marilyn Monroe quote, “Everyone’s a star and deserves the right to twinkle” surrounded by colorful stars.

The Marilyn Monroe reference is not a new one for Lindsay; in one effort to revive her career, she did a photo shoot in which she posed nude save for a scarf, mimicking Marilyn’s last photo shoot. Lindsay also once claimed that she looked at Marilyn as an example of “what this industry can do to someone” but hasn’t exactly followed her own advice.

According to a source who has seen the new ink, Lohan, 22, got a Marilyn Monroe quote tattooed in cursive on her inner-wrist during her visit to the Shamrock Social Club in West Hollywood last week. Monroe’s full quote is: “Everyone’s a star and deserves the right to twinkle.” The wording is also surrounded by yellow, blue and green stars.

It’s no surprise that Lohan’s latest body art was inspired by the Hollywood legend. Last year, she recreated Monroe’s famous nude 1962 photo shoot for New York magazine, telling the publication at the time that Monroe’s life could serve as a cautionary tale. Namely, she said, Monroe was a “prime example of what this industry can do to someone.”

After her split with Samantha Ronson, Lohan has been struggling, a source says, noting, “She feels alone. All of their mutual friends have turned on her; she’s 22 but this would be tough to handle at any age.”

[From People]

How would Lindsay not get the Marilyn Monroe quote/death by overdose correlation? Usually you don’t ink your body unless you understand all of the implications, but not Lindsay. I’m guessing that she just doesn’t understand how desperate and pathetic this makes her look.

I’m predicting a Britney-style meltdown very soon. First step is the shaving of the head, then the tattoo, then the bashing of a paparazzo’s car with an umbrella. Though I have the feeling that Lindsay is too vain to shave her head, the tattoo is a step in that direction. Someone needs to get her help, and fast.

Here’sLindsay Lohan, looking awfully skinny, and her sister, Ali Lohan, running into the Byron & Tracey hair salon on April 9th. Images thanks to Pacific Coast News.