Plus, I’m a Gemini, so it makes sense.”Īnd this one line about Stiles’s character’s first time in bed with a black man: Julia Stiles: “He came over to borrow a highlighter. Julia Stiles: “I respect them, all right? They worked very hard to get where they are. Mostly because it included these lines between Julia Stiles and Alexie Gilmore:Īlexie Gilmore: “At least I don’t have a tramp stamp on my lower back.”Īlexie Gilmore: “How is a giant tattoo of the Olsen twins a work of art?” But our favorite moments came from Farragut North playwright Beau Willimon’s one-act about two laid-off Lehman Brothers bankers hitting on tourist girls in Germany. The night afforded the opportunity to watch many an absurd situation: David Cross and Rosie Perez fake-fucking on a pile of stuffed animals, and Elijah Wood and Pablo Schreiber (Liev’s hot younger brother) slinking around the stage wearing adult diapers. While you were watching Gossip Girl Monday night, a bunch of theater folks wrote, directed, and staged six one-act plays in the span of 24 hours to benefit the Urban Arts Partnership. The "Vanilla Fudge" first album rose up the charts to # 4 without the aid of a big hit single.This is really sad for hydrangeas everywhere. Vanilla Fudge, the album, was released on Jthe day after The Beatles’ released their Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. ![]() The band toured extensively behind its covers-heavy, jam-oriented debut album, Vanilla Fudge, to expand their fan base. The band settled on Vanilla Fudge they were a white group singing and playing with the soul of the brothers. This resulted in a deal with the Atlantic subsidiary Atco, which requested a name change. ![]() Impressed by their heavy-rocking, trippy and psychedelic version of The Supremes' "You Keep Me Hangin' On", Morton offered to record the song as a single. In early 1967, The Pigeons manager, Phil Basile, convinced producer, George "Shadow" Morton (producer for The Shangri-Las and Janis Ian), to catch their live act. Inspired by groups such as The Rascals and The Vagrants (fronted by guitarist, Leslie West of “Mountain” fame), The Pigeons reworked many of their own existing arrangements of covers to reflect their unique interpretation of this “East Coast Sound.” In late 1966, drummer, Joey Brennan, moved out to the West Coast the Pigeons immediately drafted drummer and vocalist, Carmine Appice, a disciple of the renowned Joe Morello (Dave Brubeck Band) and a seasoned veteran of the club scene. The East Coast, in particular, New York, and New Jersey, created a sound all its own. In early 1966, the group recorded a set of eight demos that were released several years later as “While the World Was Eating Vanilla Fudge.” They built a following by gigging extensively up and down the East Coast, and earned extra money by providing freelance in-concert backing for hit-record girl groups. Originally, Vanilla Fudge was a blue-eyed soul cover band called The Pigeons, formed in New Jersey in 1965 with organist, Mark Stein, bassist, Tim Bogert, drummer, Joey Brennan, and guitarist, vocalist and US Navy veteran, Vince Martell. ![]() Although, at first, the band did not record original material, they were best known for their dramatic heavy, slowed-down arrangements of contemporary pop songs which they developed into works of epic proportion. Vanilla Fudge was one of the first American groups to infuse psychedelia into a heavy rock sound to create “psychedelic symphonic rock” an eclectic genre which would, among its many offshoots, eventually morph into heavy metal.
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