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From: Bradenton Herald It was Chevy Chase's movie, but KISS rock band founder GENE SIMMONS, sans the Kabuki make-up, caused the biggest uproar on the red carpet at opening night of the Sarasota Film Festival. Stepping out of a black stretch limo, sporting sunglasses, black jacket and a curvaceous twentysomething blond woman on each arm, Simmons' arrival at the screening of "Funny Money" drove autograph-hunting KISS fans into a veritable frenzy outside the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall Friday night. Fans roared "Gene!" and erupted into a Beatlemania-style scream for Simmons, 56, who generously stopped to sign a few autographs and proudly told the media, "I'm all about money and beautiful women. That's what life's all about." He refused, however, to stick out his tongue, KISS-style, but did ask Van Wezel usher Betty Morris, "Do you want to go around the block a few times?" The demure, petite woman shot back, "I've already been." It's spontaneous moments like these that make the Sarasota Film Festival's opening night one of the most delicious events of the 10-day affair. A crowd of almost 200 fans gawking on the red carpet at the sold-out opening night film apparently agreed. Simmons came to the festival to support the screening of "Funny Money," directed by Leslie Greif, who is producing Simmons' A & E Network reality show, "Family Jewels." Chase arrived before Simmons with his wife, Jaynie, and caused quite a stir, too. Sporting a brown leather jacket, blue jeans, a white T-shirt and designer shoes that resembled bowling shoes, Chase continually wiped his brow with a handkerchief as he stood for media interviews on the red carpet. "It's a lot hotter here than where we live," said Chase, who lives in Westchester, N.Y., outside New York City. "I'm very flattered to be invited to the festival." "Funny Money," a low-budget film also starring Penelope Ann Miller and Chris McDonald, was filmed in Romania, subbing for Hoboken, N.J. "It was a heck of a shoot," Chase quipped. "I had to learn 10 pages of lines every day. I take Evelyn Wood everywhere with me to help me memorize." |
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