| LOS ANGELES (AP) _ Gene Simmons has already shown he can entertain audiences with his tongue-wagging performances as leader of the rock band Kiss. Now he's showing his skills behind the scenes, as a movie producer. ``The original producers, the first generation, were showmen,'' Simmons said in Sunday editions of the Los Angeles Times. ``Along the way it seems that movie producers in general got more conservative.'' His debut, ``Detroit Rock City'' about four boys in Cleveland in 1978 trying to make it to a Kiss concert, opens Friday. Simmons has two other feature projects in development with New Line Cinema and is setting up his own production company. |