Article: `Tommy Lee Goes to College' and `Gene Simmons' Rock School'.

Byline: Hal Boedeker

Beethoven can rest easy this summer. None of television's forays into rock music will make him roll over.

CBS' "Rock Star: INXS" is a slacker in the ratings. NBC's "Tommy Lee Goes to College," a reality series debuting Tuesday, is a jaw-dropping disaster. "Gene Simmons' Rock School," another reality series premiering Friday on VH1, owes its charm to British schoolchildren and not Kiss' bassist.

"Tommy Lee Goes to College" dispatches Motley Crue's drummer to the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. From the opening, in which Lee's mother tearfully says goodbye to him, the show never seems real. Lee is, after all, 42. A pompous ...

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