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Dee Snider's family is "Growing Up Twisted." Yawn.

Because of "Meet the Osbournes," we learned the rock stars may be wild on stage, but at home, they are just like us, except wealthier and wackier.

"Growing Up Twisted" (A&E, 10 tonight) makes the same point with a different family, that of Twisted Sister's Dee Snider. The show features Snider, his wife of 34 years Suzette, and their four kids.

You could say the Snider family is a cross between "Meet the Osbournes" and  "Gene Simmons Family Jewels" (also on A&E). The Sniders are foul-mouthed, like the Osbournes. Suzette is a blonde bombshell like Simmons' former Playboy model partner Shannon Tweed, although while Tweed clothes are mature sexy, Suzette dresses fairly close in style to the 15-year-old hootchie-clad bad girl she must have been when she hooked up with Dee.

Gene Simmons is a very strange man

Gene Simmons has always had a flair forĀ  outrageous self-promotion -- the man plays in Kiss, after all. And yet it's still difficult to fathom that he (or his minions) really, truly thought this was a good idea. Yeech...

But please do let me know if you see one of these things in a bathroom around the Triangle.

ADDENDUM (8/24/09): Kiss cupcakes?

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