Perhaps the L.A. Times has finally found a solution to decreased readership: More stories about the battle between Las Vegas acts Mini-Kiss and Tiny Kiss.
An April 11 story about the pint-sized tribute bands' smackdown has been ranked as one of the LATimes.com's most-forwarded stories for two weeks. A few days ago it dipped to No. 2... but it's now back to being the top-emailed.
Perhaps the secret is the short length of the story, which is easily read in a minute or two. Here's the first few graphs:
Rival bands clash over little-person KISS tribute
A Las Vegas incident highlights the MiniKiss- Tiny Kiss tussle over who owns the concept.
By Robert W. Welkos, Times Staff Writer
They might be pint-sized performers onstage, but offstage they're in a giant-sized dispute.
Joey Fatale, the 4-foot, 4-inch New Yorker who heads the all-dwarf KISS tribute band MiniKiss, is denying published reports that he tried to sneak past security last month at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas to confront a rival band leader, 4-foot "Little" Tim Loomis of Tiny Kiss, for allegedly ripping off his idea for such a group.
Loomis, a former drummer for MiniKiss, was performing with Tiny Kiss, which includes three little people and a 350-pound woman, on St. Patrick's Day at Beacher's Madhouse, a Las Vegas variety show, when the incident occurred.
Talk about a story with legs (as small as those legs might be). The audience has spoken, LA Times, and they're screaming "follow-up"!
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