Gabe Zaldivar | Travel Pulse

“HOLLYWOOD, CA – MAY 18: Musician Gene Simmons attends the Warner Bros. Studio Tour Hollywood launch of DC Universe: The Exhibit – featuring the greatest Super Heroes and Super-Villains on May 18, 2016 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Mike Windle/Getty Images for Warner Bros. Studio Tour Hollywood)”

The Justice League, Suicide Squad and general comic book merriment is well represented at the upcoming DC Universe: The Exhibit, part of the Warner Bros. Studio Tour Hollywood. TravelPulse had the opportunity to stop by and witness the exhibit that will open May 24.

Let’s just say our inner nerd was screaming to be let out and play with every last movie prop as if we were Harley Quinn left to her own devices.

Thankfully, we remained composed as we stepped through the doorway and saw firsthand where we have come in terms of national geekdom.

The first items that capture the eye are the giant banners that show the Justice League in its glory. Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and the rest of the gang are there to greet you in image form.

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The Sun

BEFORE the Playboy model wife of Kiss hell-raiser Gene Simmons agreed to marry him after 28 years’ dating, she had one demand.

Shannon Tweed insisted the 66-year-old rocker, who admits to bedding almost 5,000 groupies, must burn his secret collection of sex snaps.

And the bonfire at their home in Los Angeles went on for days.

Gene says: “I didn’t do drugs in the crazy times but I did do sex.

“Did I sleep with 4,800 women?

“So they tell me.

“I did have the Polaroids to prove it, oh yes.

“But most of them were burned.

“Shannon and I got together with them and we had a ritual.”

As the frontman of hard rock band Kiss, Gene has spat blood and breathed fire — daubed in the band’s iconic face paint — for more than four decades.

And with the help of the freakishly long tongue he flashes on stage, he racked up conquests even faster than the band racked up gold albums.

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Belfast Telegraph

Gary Graff | Billboard

Gabriel Olsen

It’s one thing for Paul Stanley to take Kissmate Gene Simmons to task. But woe be to anyone else who wants to do it — and that means you, Nikki Sixx.

With Kiss preparing for the worldwide May 25 screening of its Kiss Rocks Vegas concert film and the early July launch of its summer Freedom To Rock tour, Stanley has been the fulcrum of some pointed social media exchanges during the past week. He took Simmons to task on Twitter for some derogatory interview comments the bassist made about Prince‘s death, calling them “cold, clueless statements.” Simmons subsequently apologized via Twitter. But when Sixx later slammed Simmons as a “bully” and claiming that “nobody in rock” respects him, Stanley posted a sharply worded Facebook retort calling Sixx’s comments an “unimportant but annoying squeak” and directing him to “please shut up, find another way to be in the news and get off your self inflated pedestal.”

Nikki Sixx Calls Gene Simmons an ‘Overrated, Lucky Guy’ After Controversial Prince Comment

“It’s just silly stuff, honestly,” Stanley tells Billboard. “It’s one thing to call somebody out and to have a point of view on somebody’s quotes, but then to just harp on it…You have to be suspect of the motives. Whatever questions I have about things that Gene has said is one thing, but to beat him into the ground becomes self-serving. It just gets annoying. For other people to harp on it and beat it into the ground is not something I want to sit by and listen to. When somebody starts to denigrate or take potshots at your contributions or your band or anything else, when you consider the source it gets to be ludicrous.”

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Radio.com

Paul Kane

Paul Stanley has one more thing to say about the roundabout beef between himself, Mötley Crüe’s Nikki Sixx and KISS bandmate Gene Simmons.

It all started when Simmons made some tasteless comments about Prince’s death, calling the late artist “pathetic,” for killing himself through drug use.  Simmons later backpedaled from those comments andapologized.

Stanley chastised Simmons for those comments, but then Nikki Sixx weighed in, slamming Simmons, and disavowing him as a personal hero.

Stanley did not take kindly to the take down, posting a lengthy rebuttaldefending Simmons.

“It’s just silly stuff, honestly,” Stanley says in a new interview withBillboard. “It’s one thing to call somebody out and to have a point of view on somebody’s quotes, but then to just harp on it…You have to be suspect of the motives. Whatever questions I have about things that Gene has said is one thing, but to beat him into the ground becomes self-serving. It just gets annoying.”