Simmons Family / LA Derby Dolls Photo Gallery

LAist.com photographer Michael Zampelli captured the Los Angeles Derby Dolls event, in which Sophie Simmons - along with her parents - sang the national anthem.

The gallery includes photos of Gene, with Sophie and live-in girlfriend Shannon Tweed, as well as the two female roller derby teams the LA-Riettes (a super-squad of the best skaters from the LA Derby Dolls league) and Santa's Little Helpers. The LA-Riettes adopted a jewish theme, and won with a score of 75 to the Santa's Little Helpers' score of 68.

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Family Jewels Season 3 Release Date - TODAY

This is the day you have been waiting for. Either you've already pre-ordered the 4-disc collection of Gene Simmons Family Jewels: The Complete Season Three from Amazon, or you've been waiting for its official release date.

Well, the time has come. * Special reminder if the above paragraph hits home with you.

Of course, time isn't running out. If you're not up to speed, or you'd like to be even more up to speed about this DVD, I can hopefully help take care of that for you.

But my time on the other hand is running out, so I'll need to leave that for later.

Until I get a hold of the collection so I can review it myself, I'll be on the lookout for other reviews I can point you to.

God bless

Gene's Candidate Jewels

Last Wednesday, Gene had a few things to say about the 2008 Presidential Candidates while at the World Premiere of the film Role Models.

Hollyscoop reports that when they asked Gene what his take was on the candidates, he had this to say: "I'd rather vote for me. I have as much qualification as some of the candidates."

But, he said, "the job doesn't pay enough."

"I don't think, by the way, celebrities should be opening their traps about anything except promoting their new stuff."

Gene said that being in front of people "doesn't mean you're qualified to do crap."

He attended the Role Models movie premiere with Shannon Tweed.