 Besides their continuing popularity, the most improbable aspect of the long-running theatrical rock group Kiss has to be the freakishly long tongue of singer-bassist Gene Simmons. For years comic-book nerds convinced each other that Simmons had in fact had a cow tongue surgically grafted to his own. Sadly, it's just a fluke of Mother Nature. "I was oblivious, for the first thirteen years of my life, that I was endowed with a large oral appendage, my superlong tongue," Simmons wrote in his autobiography. "It really was longer than everyone else's, and I was soon to find out that having a long tongue came in handy with the girls." He's so enamored of the rumor that, when he recently launched his own men's magazine, the name was obvious: Tongue.
JAMES SULLIVAN
(Posted Oct. 12, 2004)
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