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A Las Vegas incident highlights the MiniKiss-Tiny Kiss tussle over who owns the concept.

Rival bands clash over little-person KISS tribute

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.

Show host Jeff Beacher told The Times on Monday that Fatale "tried to sneak in saying he was Tiny Kiss" and had to be escorted from the premises. According to the New York Post, Fatale's lawyers sent a legal cease-and-desist letter to the show trying to shut down the act.

Loomis told the Post: "[Fatale] came out here [to Las Vegas] and tried to cause trouble, so I had him 86'd from the Hard Rock. The impression I got was that he was looking for a fight. He'd been threatening me over the phone."

But Fatale disputed the accusation, telling The Times: "This whole thing about me going to the Hard Rock with my gang

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OK, I'm just gonna come out and say it. Midgets scare the living hell out of me. When I was a kid I had a dream that midgets were attacking me and biting my ankles, ever since then I can't even be in a room with a midget with screaming like a girl.

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OK, I'm just gonna come out and say it. Midgets scare the living hell out of me. When I was a kid I had a dream that midgets were attacking me and biting my ankles, ever since then I can't even be in a room with a midget with screaming like a girl.

So you haven't seen the Bridget the Midget porn flick?

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