Thursday, June 30, 2011

Table for Six

What five guests would you invite to a dinner party? For myself, the key is to have people that I admire as well as those who would mingle together well and create fascinating conversations that are filled with laughter. Here are mine:

Sterling Hayden
Tom Waits
Julian Schnabel
James Stockdale
Bud Hylander

4 comments:

  1. Struth that's a tough one!!! First of all, I wouldn't invite any live people because live people scare me.

    Five? FIVE??!?!?!!!!! Only 5?!?!?! Surely I can invite 12!!! I've got a book somewhere that asks a buncha famous people their dinner guest list -- I'll have to dig it out and post some of their answers.

    The deceased list (which will change every time I think about it, I'm sure):

    Katharine Hepburn
    Louis Armstrong
    Hypatia
    Vincent Price
    Abraham Lincoln

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  2. Wait a minut wait a minute. I socially stunted so I should have a "Socially Awkward" dinner party inviting:

    Vincent Van Gogh
    Richard Nixon
    H.P. Lovecraft
    Edgar Allan Poe
    Ludwig van Beethoven

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  3. Alright, here are Vincent Price's 10 dinner guests from all history:

    Socrates, George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, James McNeill Whistler, Noel Coward, Coral Browne, Talullah Bankhead, Diana Rigg, any of the D'Este or Borgia girls, and Lorenzo de Medici.

    Art Buchwald chose 11 dinner guests:

    Richard Nixon, John Wilkes Booth, Jack the Ripper, Adolf Hitler, Lizzie Borden, Nero, Joseph Stalin, Judas, Mao tse-Tung, Cain and Marquis de Sade.

    -- source, The Book of Lists (1977)

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  4. art buchwald's party is destined to end in a bloodbath. mark my words.

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