If Moses comes, invite Chas Heston too. Then we can make comparisons between the two gents.
nimh, poor Sid Vicious....he was the bass player who died of a heroin overdose. Johnny Rotten, who is still alive, well, and an acerbic wit, was the lead singer of the Sex Pistols, and I would have him at a dinner party any day
Johnnie Rotten at the same table as Jesus Christ and Moses?
What next?
J. Lo becomes a Catholic nun?
Sure, wouldn't be dull, that's for certain.
Did anyone mention Cleopatra?
She could come with Queen Victoria. That ought to stir J. Lo up a bit!
Richard Feynman, Blatham, Petronius, Sor Juana de la Cruz, Maimonides, Carl Binger, James Agee, George Seldes, Galileo, Jacob Riis.
Gazpacho, roast whole snapper, new potatoes, fresh new-leaf salad greens in olive oil and lemon, ciabatta and assorted cheeses, Canary melon, espresso, good choice of dry white wines.
Now the menus interest me a lot....maybe mix up the thread a bit?
Marie Curie, chemist and Nobel Prize winner
Hillary Clinton, intelligent civil servant
Florence Nightingale, nurse reformer
Pocahontas, American India Princess
Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt
Jane Austen, English novelist
Queen Victoria, introduction of pompous stuffiness
Sappho, Greek poet of the 7th century BC
Phyllis Wheatley, one famous woman
Hatshepsut, Only female phaoroh of Egypt
I love to surround myself with intelligent, gutsy, exciting women. c.i.
I picked Jean Harlowe, CI. Did I do wrong?
cavfancier wrote:nimh, poor Sid Vicious....he was the bass player who died of a heroin overdose. Johnny Rotten, who is still alive, well, and an acerbic wit, was the lead singer of the Sex Pistols, and I would have him at a dinner party any day
yup, ye're right, f course - and johnny rotten it is, at my table.
i must admit i always liked the clash better than the sex pistols, when it comes down to it - and if i was going to have a 5-person dinner, i'd invite them rather than rotten & vicious & co. BUT ... nothing the clash ever made quite gives ya that shock into tensed up energy and agression that ya can yell & snarl along to with such liberating vigour as 'pretty vacant' or 'god saves the queen' or 'anarchy in the uk'. i STILL play 'never mind the bollocks' ... its still the best punk album i know ... tho i must admit i now mostly play it when i'm doing the dishes (just gotta watch out you dont break anything).
edgar, Ofcoarse not! If we all had the same taste in women, humanity will live in chaos, killing, and very little life left to enjoy the fruits of our 'labors.'
This talk of Jean Harlow made me decide to organize a theatrical dinner party. I've always loved the stage and I wonder how these peoples would all interact.
Will Shakespeare gets a re-invite. Hell, I'd invite Will to every dinner I hosted if he'd be willing to come. Ask him to bring Ben Johnson and his pal Henslowe along. That's the Elizabethans.
Euripides would have to be there. He and the Elizabethans could discuss how the theater has changed since the ancient Greeks. And Plautus to represent the Romans.
The brothers Booth, Edwin and John Wilkes. (I won't invite Abe Lincoln this time. Don't know how he and John Wilkes would get along.)
We need some wimmin now. Sarah Bernhard for sure. Lillian Hellman. (But she can't bring Dash Hammet as her date. I have nothing against Hammet, but I don't think he'd mix well with the theater crowd.) Maybe Greta Garbo.
Is that 10? Close enough. Have Eugene O'Neill and Marilyn Monroe in the wings as possible substitutes if someone can't make it.
The menu? I'd have it catered by staff of the Russian Tea Room, another memory out of the past.
Katharine Hepburn - oh I love her soooooo! <sniff,sniff>
Breaking news: Katherine Hepburn dies at age 96
http://apnews.myway.com//article/20030630/D7RVPHJ00.html
Let's have a toast to a wonderful actress, and a truly classy lady.
Wow...how sad. Here's to Kate and whatever dinner party she may be attending in her new realm.
Yes, Cav. The calla lilies are in bloom tonight. Bogie and Kate...Spencer and Kate...Henry and Kate...but mostly, just Kate.
Cheers to the first lady of cinema
I see that c.i. and Merry Andrew are now planning theme parties. Okay by me.
And there's an interest in menus? Also okay by me.
Sorry to hear that Kate Hepburn died. Is there anyone left from the golden age of cinema?
