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Gene Simmons visits White House and Pentagon, tells story of mother surviving Holocaust
WASHINGTON — Gene Simmons, of the rock band KISS, made a surprise visit today to the White House and Pentagon.
The 69-year-old rocker stopped by a veterans event at the Pentagon, and then he went to the White House. It is unclear whether he met with President Donald Trump. The White House did not respond to a request for comment by the time of publication.
McClatchy journalist Tara Copp reported that Simmons gave an emotional speech to a room full of service members, recounting how his mother survived Nazi concentration camps before moving to Israel to give birth to him, before coming to America.
In video from McClatchy, Simmons is seen discussing his mother's Holocaust survival story. "I'm a proud son of a concentration camp survivor, Nazi Germany. My mother was 14 when she was in the camps. I'm measuring my words because I'm about to break up again."
He went on to discuss how his moth
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This Women’s History Month, we turn to words of female empowerment from an unlikely source: Gene Simmons.
In the age of #MeToo, the mere suggestion that the long-tongued KISS co-founder and frontman might have something valuable to say should make heads spin.
Once heads stop spinning, some women’s heads may actually explode upon hearing what Simmons actually has to say.
The rock mega-rockstar acknowledges as much in his recent best seller, On Power.
“If you are a woman, I must say something...that will make me sound like a misogynistic blowhard. But please get past that knee-jerk reaction because it is not your friend in the real world.”
In the real world Simmons writes about, men and women are different. He argues that women -- particularly beautiful women -- have a power that that they may choose to ignore, or to exploit: The power of sexual attractiveness.
His peroration on the power of female sexual attractiveness goes on for pages, employing more italics than any
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Jean Simmons
British actress (1929–2010)
Not to be confused with Gene Simmons or Jen Simmons.
Jean Simmons OBE | |
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Simmons in a 1955 studio publicity shot | |
| Born | Jean Merilyn Simmons (1929-01-31)31 January 1929 Islington, London, England |
| Died | 22 January 2010(2010-01-22) (aged 80) Santa Monica, California, U.S. |
| Resting place | Highgate Cemetery, London, England |
| Citizenship | United Kingdom United States |
| Occupation(s) | Actress, singer |
| Years active | 1944–2010 |
| Spouses | Stewart Granger (m. 1950; div. 1960)Richard Brooks (m. 1960; div. 1980) |
| Children | 2 |
| Father | Charles Simmons |
Jean Merilyn SimmonsOBE (31 January 1929 – 22 January 2010) was a British actress and singer.[1][2] One of J. Arthur Rank's "well-spoken young starlets," she appeared predominantly in films, beginning with those made in