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Sunday, January 21, 2007

A Pleasant Surprise

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CC is listening to: Lucky Charm--The Rippingtons (Let it Ripp)

I watched this show for the first time yesterday and I was actually pleasantly surprised by it:

When I first heard that Gene Simmons of KISS fame was going to have a reality show, I thought it was going to be another Osbournes. I purposely avoided it for that reason. I felt TV was already saturated with overly dramatic reality shows.

Yesterday A&E had a Family Jewels marathon and I just happened to see it as I was channel surfing.

My reactions included such thoughts as:

"Wow, Gene Simmons isn't as weird in real life as I thought he'd be..."
"Oh his son's FUNNY :-)!"
"Awww he loves his family so much."
"These children were raised well."

I love watching the Gene-children interactions. You can tell how much he loves them, and how much they love him. I also love watching the Gene Simmons-Shannon Tweed interactions (I'd say "husband-wife," but they're not married. They've been together 23 years but they're not married. You can tell that they love each other very much, though :-)).

Does it sound boring? I guess maybe it does, compared to all the other drama that's on TV. But I sure appreciate that families like this can still exist in the crazy world of Hollywood.

Here, let me show you what I mean. Here's an excerpt of the show. It's about 1 minute and 19 seconds. The show includes couch interviews, you see, and the topic was Gene Simmons' hair. You get to see how Gene interacts with his kids, and how Shannon interacts with the kids.

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If it doesn't play automatically, choose video 25 from the menu on the right. It's titled "My Hair, Myself."
When you watch the video, look at how Sophie (his daughter)'s arm is linked with Gene's as they talk on the couch. You can tell by how she talks to him that she adores him :-). I also thought it was a warm fatherly moment when he let her look up his nose towards the end of the video :-).

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