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 04-25-2024, 09:44 AM | #211 |
Steve M. Back on the road to reality Forum Superstar Join Date: Nov 07, 2003 Location: New Jersey Posts: 31,044 |
Quote: Originally Posted by ABlairican Pie If there was one thing which caused more outrage than Religious Right objections to the supposed meaning of KISS' name, it was the social life of Gene Simmons once he had landed in Hollywood: When Cher's child Chaz Bono (then a girl named Chastity) told Cher that she should meet Gene Simmons and that she (Chastity) could arrange that, Cher said, "Wow - I'd love to! Jean Simmons is my favorite actress!" True story! |
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| 04-25-2024, 10:01 AM | #212 |
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Quote: Originally Posted by ABlairican Pie 'KISS Meets the Phantom Of the Park' was the highlight of my fifteen-year old life in 1978. Which meant that I was desperately in need of a life. Of the three movies of the 1970s that attempted to capture the spirit of a Beatles movie, Bloodstone's Train Ride to Hollywood was probably the best, if by default. It had a lot of cringe-worthy and stupid scenes, plus a good deal of inane dialogue, but it had Bloodstone's blend of rock and roll and Kansas City soul, and you can't go wrong with Guy Marks as Humphrey Bogart and Roberta Collins as Jean Harlow! Goin' Coconuts was a flop, though I understand it did much better in Utah. Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park is the least of these lesser A Hard Day's Night / Help! wannabes, but it has its moments, like the ironically priceless dialogue, like when Gene Simmons is accused of robbing a bank - "Maybe it was Gene's twin brother!" "No, Gene's twin brother was born an only child!" Ha ha, that don't even make good nonsense! BUT: All three are better than the Sgt. Pepper movie, and I will go to my grave saying that Kiss dodged a bullet when they declined a role originally meant for Mick Jagger that went to Aerosmith, who benefitted by turning in one of the finest Beatles covers ever with their take on "Come Together." The Sgt. Pepper movie is the worst movie to star pop stars that has ever been made. Which given all of the movies Madonna made between 1985 and 2002, is quite an achievement! But it's still the best movie ever made to feature Alice Cooper dunking his face in a cream pie - twice! |
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And Bloodstone's Charles McCormick thought it was a precursor for MTV.
Award the filmmakers points for casting the great character actor Herbert Edelman as their manager. 
| 04-25-2024, 10:08 AM | #213 |
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Quote: Originally Posted by Steve M. The Sgt. Pepper movie is the worst movie to star pop stars that has ever been made. Which given all of the movies Madonna made between 1985 and 2002, is quite an achievement! But it's still the best movie ever made to feature Alice Cooper dunking his face in a cream pie - twice! Oh, and sexy ballerina mimes. Can't forget the sexy ballerina mimes. The Sgt. Pepper movie is the best movie ever made to include sexy ballerina mimes. Wonder if Gene Simmons would have wanted to shag these honeys? "Love is all, love is you, sweetie!" |
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| 04-25-2024, 01:04 PM | #214 |
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By the late 1970s, Eugene Klein, middle-school teacher in the New York public school system, was Gene Simmons, masked metal superstar, when he granted Rolling Stone's Chuck Young an interview, during which he said that people's tastes and opinions should not be questioned because everyone is different. When Young asked Simmons whom he voted for in the 1972 presidential election, Simmons said he'd voted for George McGovern, conceding Young's point that mass taste and majority opinions are wrong on occasion, but he added that "nothing is right or wrong in popular music. There are just different tastes." Simmons noted that people in New York City hated Lawrence Welk but he was a big star out in the Midwest, with thirty gold records on release. When Young asked him if he was willing to admit that Lawrence Welk's music was sh**, Simmons refused, saying, "Someone out there likes it." "Jacqueline Susann sells more books than William Shakespeare," Young said," but she's still sh** and Shakespeare is still Shakespeare." "Wait a minute!" Simmons exclaimed. I think that Shakespeare is sh**! Absolute sh**! He may have been a genius in his time, but I can't relate to that stuff. 'Thee' and 'thou' - the guy sounds like a f*gg*t. Captain America is classic because he's more entertaining. if you counted all of the people who read Shakespeare, you'd be very disappointed." "No aesthetics exist aside from what people buy?" Young asked. "You bet," Simmons answered. He taught middle-school English?
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| 04-25-2024, 01:14 PM | #215 |
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"Good morning to members of the press who are here for the New York City Chancellor of Schools's news conference. We have just learned that Gene Simmons, the culturally impoverished heavy-metal musician, and Eugene Klein, a sixth-grade teacher stationed in the Upper West Side in the early 1970s, are one and the same person. A full investigation is underway, and the news conference has been canceled. Sorry." |
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| 04-27-2024, 10:54 PM | #216 |
ABlairican Pie Member Forum Superstar Join Date: Dec 12, 2001 Location: Living where cats reign more Supreme than a pizza. Posts: 31,318 |
Quote: Originally Posted by Steve M. By the late 1970s, Eugene Klein, middle-school teacher in the New York public school system, was Gene Simmons, masked metal superstar, when he granted Rolling Stone's Chuck Young an interview, during which he said that people's tastes and opinions should not be questioned because everyone is different. When Young asked Simmons whom he voted for in the 1972 presidential election, Simmons said he'd voted for George McGovern, conceding Young's point that mass taste and majority opinions are wrong on occasion, but he added that "nothing is right or wrong in popular music. There are just different tastes." Simmons noted that people in New York City hated Lawrence Welk but he was a big star out in the Midwest, with thirty gold records on release. When Young asked him if he was willing to admit that Lawrence Welk's music was sh**, Simmons refused, saying, "Someone out there likes it." "Jacqueline Susann sells more books than William Shakespeare," Young said," but she's still sh** and Shakespeare is still Shakespeare." "Wait a minute!" Simmons exclaimed. I think that Shakespeare is sh**! Absolute sh**! He may have been a genius in his time, but I can't relate to that stuff. 'Thee' and 'thou' - the guy sounds like a f*gg*t. Captain America is classic because he's more entertaining. if you counted all of the people who read Shakespeare, you'd be very disappointed." "No aesthetics exist aside from what people buy?" Young asked. "You bet," Simmons answered. He taught middle-school English?
And of course, 'Music From The Elder' was of far more musical and conceptual quality than 'As You Like It'. More about that coming up. |
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| 04-30-2024, 07:22 AM | #217 |
ABlairican Pie Member Forum Superstar Join Date: Dec 12, 2001 Location: Living where cats reign more Supreme than a pizza. Posts: 31,318 |
So by this point, two members of KISS were frustrated that their "contributions" were being unrecognized by the leaders of the band: Ace Frehley and Peter Criss, the two with the most stellar work ethic, demanded that they get their own albums or else they would leave the group. To keep the band together, the members of KISS decided they would each record a solo album and release them on the same day, as a display of "band unity". The feat had mixed results. Two of the albums sold rather well, while the other two, not so much. |
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