Invitation

[jamespowers]

I've often thought about this, and it pretty much comes down to a list of folks I'd really like to have had the chance to sit down and have a good conversation with...

Fred Allen
Eleanor Roosevelt
Richard Nixon
Dorothy Kilgallen
Malcolm X
Margaret Sanger

I have no idea how this particular group would get along at a dinner party, but I'm certain it wouldn't be boring...

Richard Nixon?

 

[LizzieMaine]

Richard Nixon?

Always been fascinated by him -- a very complex man!

 

[scotrace]

Lincoln
Theodore Roosevelt
Sir Richard Francis Burton
Churchill
Frederick Douglass

Abigail Adams
Willa Cather


Though frankly, Churchill and Roosevelt would be first to be axed from the list as there is so much one can read by them that you can get to know them anyway. Lincoln is a fascinating mind we'll never fully understand. Burton would have to be there. I want to ask Douglass what he thinks about where the USA is today. Abigail Adams was brilliant and fascinating in her own right. And Willa Cather would bring a completely different tilt to the table.

So replacing Churchill: What the hell. Scarlett Johanssen. Because I am at heart, a shallow man. Sorry, Sir Winston. Flesh over intellect!
Replacing Roosevelt: Either Walt Whitman for his beautiful talent for observation, or Oscar Wilde, just to get Burton's goat!

 

[GOK]

So replacing Churchill: What the hell. Scarlett Johanssen. Because I am at heart, a shallow man.

Nothing wrong with that, Scott - why do you think I want Johnny Depp at my table? I could add Jason Isaacs too actually! Of course, I could claim it was their intellect I was interested in....

 

[Girl Friday]

Dorothy Parker
Humphrey Bogart
the Marx Bros.
F.Scott Fitzgerald
Nick and Nora Charles
the Doll Family Midgets
Ed Wood
Gilda Radner
Orsen Wells
Shemp Howard

 

[Harp]

Christian X (Dignity in the face of the Nazi occupation) :eusa_clap

SC (Danish American)

Hear, hear.:eusa_clap Also, Britain's George VI, a reluctant but very
noble monarch.:eusa_clap

 

[Harp]

2- Jos?©phine Bonaparte

et sans Napoleon?

 

[Spitfire]

et sans Napoleon?

Napoleon could not come. he was at a party at my place, remember.

 

[TailendCharlie]

Heres mine!

Soupy Sales
The Little Rascals
The Three Stooges
Then I would bring out the pies!

 

[CanadaDoll]

Cleopatra
Mystery, Intrigue, The Beauty Secrets.

Lucrezia Borgia
That family was just to wierd to not want to know about them.

Jack The Ripper
Odd yes, but I just wanna know who he really was, and why, I've heard some interesting theories.

Buddha
Cause I really wanna know what he was on about, maybe then I could reach enlightenment too

Hitler
So I could kick him really really hard, many many many times

Da Vinci
The man was brilliant, I'd love to learn from him.

There's probably many more but I'm drawing a blank right now.lol

 

[imoldfashioned]

Fun question!

Off the top of my head:

A Fun Party
Carole Lombard--the party would surely be a hit with Carole in attendance
Stephen Colbert (on a night that didn't conflict with Novella's dinner!)--I'd love to see Stephen and Carole together
Judy Garland--so we could sing around the piano after the meal
Orson Welles--I always enjoyed his stories when he was on the talk shows in the 1970s
William Powell --I just love him
Myrna Loy--so she could give me tips on how to emulate her

A Serious Party
George Orwell --to talk about the craft of writing
Sophie Scholl--she fascinates me
Diego Velazquez--one of my favorite artists
Joan of Arc--what's it like to have visions and speak to Saints?
Gustav Mahler--one of my favorite composers
Charlotte or Emily Bronte--see George Orwell

I chime in on the Christian X admiration. There's a holocaust memorial in Boston with a map that has the number of Jewish people who perished at the hands of the Nazis in each country; most of the numbers are horrifically high and then there's Denmark with nearly none. I always wondered why this story isn't more widely known.

 

[Harp]

Fun question!
Myrna Loy--so she could give me tips on how to emulate her
Diego Velazquez--one of my favorite artists
Charlotte or Emily Bronte

Love M.L. (I wouldn't be able to take my eyes off her!)
Vel, Char, and Em-fascinating. (Heathcliff loved Catherine--)

 

[CanadaDoll]

I just though of two more:

Rasputin
I'm really fascinated by history's villainous types.

Anastasia Romanov
I have theories about what happened to her after the Bolsheviks, but I really like to hear her story.

 

[scotrace]

Anastasia Romanov
I have theories about what happened to her after the Bolsheviks, but I really like to hear her story.

Brilliant addition!

 

[CanadaDoll]

She's one of history's greatest unsolved mysteries, nobody can even guess really at what became of her. Oh the conspiracies whirling around my head!!!! (don't mind my hyper oddness, I've got about 8 cups of coffee in my system, and I tend to get wierd when I do that)

I'm pretty notorious for my theories on historical figures, they rarely make complete sense but they are entirely plausible!

 

[GOK]

I just though of two more:

Rasputin
I'm really fascinated by history's villainous types.

Anastasia Romanov
I have theories about what happened to her after the Bolsheviks, but I really like to hear her story.

:eusa_clap :eusa_clap :eusa_clap

Great choices - wonder if Grigori would be paranoid about poisoned chocolates though? lol

 

[CanadaDoll]

lol lol I'll serve gelato for dessert instead then!lol

 

[Harp]

I just though of two more:

Rasputin
I'm really fascinated by history's villainous types.

Anastasia Romanov
I have theories about what happened to her after the Bolsheviks, but I really like to hear her story.

The bitter truth about Anastasia is that she persihed with her family.
Prince Philip of Greece; related to the Romanov line, gave blood for a
serologic DNA match of the discovered remains. Anastasia will always
remain a romantic figure....

 

[CanadaDoll]

Related sure, but that can't establish exactly who's who just male or female, and the inbreeding probably rotted a few genes, and they can't seem to account for her body.....I dunno, just my opinion, it may have been Olga or Tatiana even, if anyone were misidentified.... maistakes happen... and they weren't exactly popular....I'll keep imagining

 

[GOK]

lol lol I'll serve gelato for dessert instead then!lol

If it's Ray Gelato, I'm on my way!