Gene Simmons: Hapless Dupe, Or Media Genius?
This entire week, I’ve been seeing various blurbs popping up online about a “sex video” starring the one and only Gene Simmons getting down and dirty with a woman with what has now been revealed to be “questionable” history. This very day capped off with said realizations, as well as cease-and-desist letters being dropped off at various other blogs.
I’ve thought nothing much of it, with the week’s other celeb nudity stories (Lindsay – yeah, does anyone else find our young drug-addled starlet posing as Marilyn’s last shoot somewhat foreboding?), letting it simply pass by. Admittedly, for a man who claims such prowess in bed, I certainly found his claims of “garbage” (see: Gene’s personal site) a little odd – wouldn’t he be proud?
And then here I was, this fine evening not an hour ago, exiting a party with some friends – where I also saw Rachel Dratch, looking very disheveled – to find myself witness to this spectacle…
Admitted, the photo quality isn’t great, but what you’re looking at is a billboard across the street from Chinatown Brasserie (3rd and Broadway – look it up) being erected AS I TYPE, for the new season of Simmons’ A&E show Family Jewels.
It’s elaborate as all hell, with a tagline reading “1 Man, 4800 Women?”, begging the reader to text “yes” or “no” to a number – above each yes/no option being a huge framed sign, with what I can only assume to be a counter, judging the tallied responses of John Q. Commuter.
I can’t help but wonder, is Simmons really the victim in this whole sex tape scandal? Or has the man simply executed another bit of media brilliance? One certainly cannot deny the media fortitude exhibited with KISS in the 70’s – which was partly, if not completely due to this man’s mind.
KISS condoms anyone?