GENE SIMMONS
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ANGLE: An update on the life of the Kiss frontman.

HIGH POINT: An unusually sensitive Simmons is touched after he and his bandmates hang out with some of the troops at a Marine Corps camp in California. The rocker described it as ''a very emotional experience and would make anyone proud of the men and women who risk their lives.'' Archives are easy to use.

LOW POINT: An apparent obsession with Hugh Hefner and the Playboy Mansion, as well as an unfortunate reminder that he was once on the magazine's cover.

VERDICT: Blah. How about funneling some of that blood-spitting, fire-breathing venom onto this site? C+