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Culture-Wrecking Duo Gene Simmons and Mark Burnett Team Up Again For ‘Jingles’
8:35AM Defamer Hollywood | Half the stories on this sluggish midsummer news day seem to concern the same bad idea at CBS: Jingles, the Mark Burnett-produced product placement platform reality series squaring songwriters off against each other in the pursuit of… the perfect ad jingle. We can’t make this up, folks, and even if we could we probably wouldn’t want to — especially not the part in which the newsworthiest elements of the show are its judges: A kerfuffle-plagued, ex-Wal-Mart marketing guru and — seriously, we’re too exhausted/sad/Dark Knighted-out to fuck with you — Gene Simmons: Simmons will be joined by an “advisory panel” that include Madison Avenue gurus Linda Kaplan Thaler and Julie Roehm. But Simmons will be the final authority on the show who decides which contestants are eliminated each week. More »
‘Bulimic Coke Whore’ Janice Dickinson Sure Loves Her Popcorn
6:30AM Mark Graham | PrivacyWatch celebrity sightings are submitted by our readers, and are posted several times a week (depending on volume), so send them in early and often—without them, global warming will surely accelerate at an even faster rate! Submit yours to tips[AT]defamer.com (please put “sighting” or “PrivacyWatch” in the subject line so we don’t lose them) and tell everyone about the time you watched Janice Dickinson eat two buckets of popcorn during the course of just one movie. More »
KISS Press Conference Hell
4:29PM Jess McGuire | Defamer Australia operative Elmo Keep – she of “Stop interrupting me, Gene Simmons” fame – last week came face to face with her interview nemesis and his pack of make-up lovin’ rock goons at a KISS press conference held before the band appeared at the weekend’s Grand Prix celebrations.
How did it go?
.. arrive at Crown Towers. Seeing the inside of places like this is not something that would ever normally happen to me. Part casino, part Dune interiors set, there are pillars and split spiral stairways and black marble floors lit from beneath somehow and bellhops in hats. And milling incongruously in amongst all this are all the media parasites waiting for KISS.
Let me just say here, that if you look even partially like you are meant to be there, you can just walk right into one of these things. No one looked at me, asked who I was or wanted to see my credentials. Lucky I didn’t have a gun.
Because I would have shot myself.
As ever, you can read the entire tale over at FasterLouder. More »
‘Stop Interrupting Me, Gene Simmons’
8:15AM Jess McGuire | Our chum (and, quite shortly, Defamer Australia’s South by Southwest operative) Elmo Keep recently interviewed formidable KISS frontman Gene Simmons on the eve of the band’s appearance at the Grand Prix and the interview is definitely worth reading, particularly when the two argue over the future of the music industry.
Let us provide you with a taste…
“The record industry is dead!” Gene Simmons roars, getting rather worked up. “College kids file-sharing and downloading for nothing. The very same people that love and care about music so much are the same people slashing the throat of the music! There’s no business model anymore. That’s why the next great band from Brisbane or Adelaide doesn’t have a chance – because there’s no structure.”
“I don’t know about that. I’ll posit you this – “
“ – ‘I don’t know’ is a fair statement. From you.”
“Ok, thanks.”
“Well it’s true,” Gene Simmons taunts.
More – and a mention of the recently leaked Gene Simmons sex tape – after the jump… More » 
My Dad Has More Rage Issues Than Your Dad
8:30AM Mark Graham | Because nothing says “I’m a good dad” like psychotically destroying a wooden desk with a sledgehammer! Score another one for Ben Silverman, this guy can’t lose. [NBC.com] Our pervy (in a good way!) brethren over at Fleshbot got their hands on a clip of Gene Simmons giving a half-hearted rogering to some blonde lass. You have been warned, the clip is both NSFW and NSF-YourStomach. [Fleshbot] While we didn’t actually take the time to read Esquire’s Kate Beckinsale quiz, we spend a lot of time looking at the pictures. Wonder if this means we passed. [Esquire] Whoever convinced ScarJo to get that horrible tattoo on her forearm needs to be reprimanded. [ONTD] How does one top off a day in which millions and millions of Americans looked at your breasts? If you’re Lindsay Lohan, you do it by going to watch Monday Night Raw. With no pants on. [The Sun] More »
Kiss Going Down… Under
5:12PM Jess McGuire | Rev-heads and music fans are no doubt united in excitement at news legendary musical ensemble Kiss are planning on rocking out with their cocks out at next year’s Grand Prix in Melbourne.
The band, made up of singer Gene Simmons, guitarists Paul
Stanley and Tommy Thayer, and drummer Eric Singer, will fly to
Australia especially for the Grand Prix, which runs from March 13
to 16.
Kiss, best known for its trademark face paint and stage outfits,
will perform a full concert for race fans on a specially erected
stage to close the Formula One race on Sunday, March 16.
“Let me see – high octane, roaring horsepower testing the
threshold of sound and speed, and then the Formula One Grand Prix.
No way we’d miss this,” Stanley said.
“We’ll be firing on all cylinders and the audience will need
their seatbelts.”
No car racing pun left untouched by Paul Stanley, we see. Well done, sir!
We interviewed an ex porn star turned wrestling manager last month (no, really) and she told us Gene Simmons is revoltingly sleazy and inappropriate in the flesh, which is probably saying something. We look forward to stalking him around town and finding local ladies willing to publicly attest to the long-tongued lothario’s reputation in the boudoir. More » 