Brother Malcolm Marvin Gaye Christopher Columbus Nicole the Rat Pack Frederick Douglas Eddie Kendricks, David Ruffin, Paul Williams and Melvin Franklin (Temptations) to hear their side of the story.
Millions of possible answers...Napoleon...Ceaser...Alex the Great...Hannibal...Shakespeare...Gertrude Stein...Branch Rickey...Socrates...F. Scott Fitzgerald...Akhnahten...Cool Papa Bell...Elizabeth I...Abe Lincoln...George S. Patton...Bobby Kennedy...John Lennon...Karl Marx...Machiavelli...Claude Monet...Mark Twain...Josh Gibson...Lou Gherig...Albert Einstein...Stephen Bikko...Thucydides...Alfred Hitchcock...Gustafus Adolphus...Mohammed...Jesus Christ...Buddha...Eric Liddle...Gandhi...James Stewart...Tolstoy...Humphrey Bogart...Walter Matthau...Ernest Hemingway...Oda Norabunga...Otis Redding...John Wayne...Saladin...James Joyce...James Dean...Augustus...Charlemagne...the Earl of Montrose...Shaka Zulu...Dr. Livingston...Rommel...Clausevitz...Albert Camus...Motzart...Lord Byron...Sun Tzu...Leonardo DeVinci...Thutmose II...Marco Polo...Michaelangelo...Ramses the Great...Joan of Arc...Ludwig II...Thomas Jefferson...Stanley Kubrick...Oliver Wendell Holmes...Charlie Chaplin...Maria Therese...the Marx Brothers...Chopin and Georges Sands...Sigmeund Freud...Satchel Paige...Bob Marley...Moses... I could literally go on for days...for both our sakes, don't let me in any more threads like this....
Anyone remember that SNL skit from the early 90s where they had Natalie Cole (not the real Cole, but that Ellen Cleghorne, or whatever her name was) singing with other dead people like Mama Cass, Elvis, and Sammy Davis, Jr.. They had her singing "Stand By Your Man" with Tammy Wynette, but it was before Wynette died. Cole (singing): "Stand By Your Man" Wynette: "I am not Dead" Cole (singing)"I am not Dead" Wynette: "This is how rumors get started" Cole (singing): "This is how rumors get started" Wynette: "Shut up b****" Cole (singing): "Shut up b****" Funny stuff.
In Dick Schaap dinner table style... Gandhi Thomas Jefferson Frank Sinatra Satchel Paige Eleanor Roosevelt Geronimo and The Three Stooges
i'm sure Jesus could handle the whole english thing. and Heretic, i think he only agreed to suffer and die once, so he'd just kick your ass if you tried anything. i'd have to talk to Einstein, find out how the ideas popped into his head, then just let him talk about relativity and other assorted genius thoughts of his (which i've always loved) until he couldn't go anymore. even if i didn't understand it, it would be fascinating for me. lets see, who else. genghis khan, alexander the great, what's it like kicking so much ass. constantine, did you know you were changing the course of history when you saw that cross in the sky. newton, what's it like knowing i think einstein is smarter. leonardo da vinci, galileo, elvis (can i have your voice), amelia/roanoke people/hoffa what really happened. i'm sure there's plenty more, that's all i've got for now.
I'd like to spend a couple of weeks driving across the country with Jefferson... showing him the parts of the country he never saw, talking about his time and what's happened since, chatting a little philosophy, and explaining all the gadgets and science that we live with everyday. For a dinner party: Einstein, Lenin, Niebuhr, Teddy, Twain, and H.L. Mencken. This presents a number of possible lively discussion topics.
Mozart Stravinsky Chopin Beethoven Hendrix Mao Ghandi Stanley Kubrick Marx Lincoln Ben Franklin Anne Frank Kim Il Sung Nero 12 Disciples
Of ones not yet listed (and to represent for theater geeks everywhere): 1. Beckett 2. Ionesco 3. Brecht 4. A. Jarry 5. Alan Schneider (to get scoop I couldn't get from Beckett himself) Non-theater types, recently departed: 1. Bill Hicks 2. Frank Zappa
BUT, see how twisted he really was. I would like to know what was the entire plan and how far was he willing to go or kill to carry this out. What would he have done differently? Was he wanting to kill until his people were the only left? To what level would he rate this a success. Lastly, I would like to see what he would do if he had the opportunity to rule the United States and it's Armed Forces.
Lol! WHen I first read this, before i read further, I was doing a " Thomas or Samuel" thing...and I have no idea why...maybe it's that i haven't slept in 35 hours, but the thought of you talking to the ArchBishop of Canterbury while Peter O'Toole raged about troublesome priests in the background was really making me laugh...
Preferably on live Television. I would ask Muhammed: What's up dog. I gotta know just one thing. Are you down with your peeps killin' everybody in your name and ****? Are you cool with jihad?
Religious Figures : Jesus, Siddharta Gauthama(SP?), Arjana, Mohammed, Moses...Really, I would, of course, want to speak to all religious figures, but I like how these 5 represent the world's 5 major religions Entertainers(Huge, generalizing category here) : John Lennon, George Harrison, Roger Waters, Jimi Hendrix, Frank Sinatra and the rest of the rat pack, Bob Marley, Jim Morisson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Harper Lee(Please, please, write some more...), Homer, the kings of high school lit.(Dickens, Faulkner, Melville, Twain, Steinbeck) Leaders(Again, huge, generalizing category here) : Martin Luther King, Martin Luther, Henry VIII, Louis XIV, Julius and Augustus Ceasar(Really any of the Romans/family...Antony, Cleopatra), Gandhi, Genghis Khan, all communists/totalitarians everywhere(What the #$#$ were you thinking...:Hitler, Marx, Stalin, Lenin, Mussolini?), Alexander the Great, King Arthur(Speaking of, how much evidence is there of his being real/fake?), George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln
