5th Grader Gene Simmons Interview

FOX posted this Gene Simmons interview on their YouTube to promote Friday's episode of the Jeff Foxworthy-hosted Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?

5th Grader Gene Simmons Quiz

FOX television has uploaded the following Gene Simmons Quiz to their YouTube page in order to compliment this Friday's episode of Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader? which will feature a test of Gene's own knowledge. The show starts at 8/7c on, of course, FOX.



How well did you do?

Payment to Game Controller Designers AXED?

Curt Vendel (holding guitar) and Legacy Engineering Group

Legacy Engineering, the team that say they designed the new Gene Simmons Axe controller for Guitar Hero, has made a statement claiming that over 5 (total) months spent working on the project have not been compensated for.

The Legacy Engineering Group claim they were contacted in Mid December 2007 by I2G and asked for a line of gaming products for Simmons. Legacy and chief designer Curt Vendel say they've "never been paid or compensated for the immense effort that went into the design and engineering of the product."

"It's a shame that our talents and abilities were used, and abused and taken advantage of - something that perhaps Gene Simmons personally should know."

While noticeably unhappy, Legacy promotes that they are extremely pleased with the end result of the product and even give insight to how the device was worked on.

Perhaps a more interesting story is that they also say they developed a controller based on Gene's Punisher guitar.

Former Gene Simmons Residence FOR SALE

$2.795 million is being asked for the once home of Gene Simmons. Gene's not the only famous person to have lived in 32D on 10 West 66th Street, in New York City. Jim Steinman, the song writer for Meat Loaf's album Bat Out of Hell and Bonnie Tyler's "Total Eclipse of the Heart" resided in the two-bedroom, two-bath 1,500-square-foot co-op. apartment after purchasing it from Simmons.

Simmons made the apartment his home for ten years. Of course, it's gone through a big makeover since then.

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Gene Simmons Makes Top 20 List of Creepiest Celebrities

Market research firm e-Poll released a list of the 20 creepiest celebrities. Gene Simmons made the list, falling in at #17, ahead of Tom Green (The Tom Green Show), Tommy Lee (Mötley Crüe), and M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense), but far from Marilyn Manson, Michael Jackson, and OJ Simpson who fell into the first three spots as most creepy.

e-Poll tracks the popularity of actors and musicians, as well as other famed personalities. The list of creepiest celebrities was compiled with the percentages of both the creepiness and the appeal ratings of each celebrity.

The list, picked up by Reuters, goes as follows:

#. Name (Creepy) (Appeal)
1. Marilyn Manson (76%) (9%)
2. Michael Jackson (67%) (14%)
3. OJ Simpson (59%) (3%)
4. Stephen King (51%) (61%)
5. Howard Stern (45%) (13%)
6. Andy Dick (44%) (17%)
7. Ozzy Osbourne (43%) (29%)
8. Criss Angel (43%) (45%)
9. Flavor Flav (41%) (17%)
10. Paul Reubens (41%) (22%)
11. Courtney Love (40%) (7%)
12. Carrot Top (39%) (17%)
13. Don Imus (38%) (26%)
14. Keith Richards (38%) (26%)
15. David Blaine (37%) (36%)
16. Woody Allen (35%) (24%)
17. Gene Simmons (33%) (30%)
18. Tom Green (31%) (30%)
19. Tommy Lee (29%) (25%)
20. M. Night Shyamalan (27%) (53%)