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Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 129.11.77.198
Posted on Monday, February 01, 2010 - 07:22 pm:   

If you could invite four guests to chat at table in your place, who would they be?

(Language barriers shouldn't be regarded as a problem. Nor should the fact that they're no longer living [which is not to say you'd have a decomposed corpse sitting there . . . oh, you know what I mean].)
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Clive (Clive)
Username: Clive

Registered: 10-2009
Posted From: 81.104.164.239
Posted on Monday, February 01, 2010 - 08:13 pm:   

Joe Strummer, Austin Osman Spare, Hassan I Sabbah and Patti Smith.

And i would like a campfire instead of a table please. And toasted marshmallows.
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Craig (Craig)
Username: Craig

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 75.4.226.191
Posted on Monday, February 01, 2010 - 08:34 pm:   

To clear up various mysteries....

William Shakespeare - assorted, including: did you write CARDENIO or not?
St. Paul - what happened to you?
Jack the Ripper -who were you?
Charlize Theron (in her Woody Allen CELEBRITY prime) - would you like to play seven minutes in heaven?
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Des (Des)
Username: Des

Registered: 06-2008
Posted From: 86.159.146.233
Posted on Monday, February 01, 2010 - 08:40 pm:   

I'd have four mystery guests in masks, all of whom would have had to pass various tests (set by me) in order to have dinner with me.
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Mick Curtis (Mick)
Username: Mick

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.181.152.177
Posted on Monday, February 01, 2010 - 08:41 pm:   

Jack the Ripper -who were you?

I could answer that if my wife could remember - she went on a tour of Scotland Yard's black museum a few years back and they told the tour group that they knew for certain who Jack the Ripper was - my wife wasn't too well that day and forgot the name!
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Steve Bacon (Stevebacon)
Username: Stevebacon

Registered: 09-2008
Posted From: 90.209.108.195
Posted on Monday, February 01, 2010 - 08:50 pm:   

Peter Ustinov, Alfred Hitchcock, Brian Clough and Oliver Reed.
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Patrick Walker (Patrick_walker)
Username: Patrick_walker

Registered: 01-2010
Posted From: 92.40.83.120
Posted on Monday, February 01, 2010 - 10:12 pm:   

Jerry Sadowitz, Bill Hicks, Lenny Bruce and Peter Cook.
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Mick Curtis (Mick)
Username: Mick

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.181.152.177
Posted on Monday, February 01, 2010 - 10:44 pm:   

Marilyn Monroe, Kate Bush, Diana Rigg and Debbie Pinson.

:-)
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Steve Bacon (Stevebacon)
Username: Stevebacon

Registered: 09-2008
Posted From: 90.209.108.195
Posted on Monday, February 01, 2010 - 11:14 pm:   

You filthy swine, Mick.
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Mick Curtis (Mick)
Username: Mick

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.181.152.177
Posted on Monday, February 01, 2010 - 11:35 pm:   

Oh yes!

"But Marge - Debbie Pinson"!
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Ian Alexander Martin (Iam)
Username: Iam

Registered: 10-2009
Posted From: 64.180.64.74
Posted on Tuesday, February 02, 2010 - 12:08 am:   

William Shakespeare, Albert Einstein, Sherlock Holmes (shut up! he did too!), and Cleopatra.

And once the ladies are finished over at Mick's place, they ought to come 'round here for a real good time.
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Des (Des)
Username: Des

Registered: 06-2008
Posted From: 86.159.146.233
Posted on Tuesday, February 02, 2010 - 12:10 am:   

My dinner will be masks only.
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Craig (Craig)
Username: Craig

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 75.4.245.162
Posted on Tuesday, February 02, 2010 - 01:27 am:   

Nah, Mick, it was just PR for their tour....

A young Diana Rigg? Oh yeah! I just saw her in an old staged version of HEDDA GABLER, and she was prim, proper, petulant, pernicious, and HOT!
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Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston)
Username: Weber_gregston

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 194.176.105.56
Posted on Tuesday, February 02, 2010 - 10:32 am:   

The great JC himself =- by which of course I mean Jonathan Carroll
The other great JC - John Cleese
Alfred Hitchcock
Sigourney Weaver
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Kate (Kathleen)
Username: Kathleen

Registered: 09-2009
Posted From: 86.158.6.141
Posted on Tuesday, February 02, 2010 - 01:25 pm:   

So what about you, Mr Fry?
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Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston)
Username: Weber_gregston

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 194.176.105.56
Posted on Tuesday, February 02, 2010 - 01:56 pm:   

Being the dictator that he is, probably Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin and Pol Pot. Get some advice on the correct techniques for denying us our freedom of expression and single-handedly destroying the horror genre (as he's rumoured to be doing)
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Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston)
Username: Weber_gregston

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 194.176.105.56
Posted on Tuesday, February 02, 2010 - 01:57 pm:   

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Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 129.11.76.230
Posted on Tuesday, February 02, 2010 - 02:16 pm:   

Liszt
Beethoven (with ear trumpet)
Merleau-Ponty
Weber Gregston
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Tom_alaerts (Tom_alaerts)
Username: Tom_alaerts

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 194.78.35.185
Posted on Tuesday, February 02, 2010 - 02:17 pm:   

Mmmh...

- Stanley Kubrick
- Ralph Gibson or Helmut Newton (my 2 fave photographers)
- Napoleon
- Mae West
if I could invite a fifth one, HP Lovecraft or Vladimir Nabokov - for completely different reasons!
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Tom_alaerts (Tom_alaerts)
Username: Tom_alaerts

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 194.78.35.185
Posted on Tuesday, February 02, 2010 - 02:18 pm:   

Why oh why did I forgot Penelope Cruz? Well, if Mae's busy with her admirers then Penelope can come.
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Des (Des)
Username: Des

Registered: 06-2008
Posted From: 86.159.146.233
Posted on Tuesday, February 02, 2010 - 02:19 pm:   

As Liszt's coming, Beethoven shouldn't bring his ear trumpet surely.
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Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 129.11.76.229
Posted on Tuesday, February 02, 2010 - 02:42 pm:   

Hahhahahahahahahahahah...

Liszt played piano as an 11 year-old to Beethoven, you know.
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Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston)
Username: Weber_gregston

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 194.176.105.56
Posted on Tuesday, February 02, 2010 - 02:49 pm:   

Is that why Beethoven poked his own ears out?
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Des (Des)
Username: Des

Registered: 06-2008
Posted From: 86.159.146.233
Posted on Tuesday, February 02, 2010 - 02:50 pm:   

And look what happened after that?
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Des (Des)
Username: Des

Registered: 06-2008
Posted From: 86.159.146.233
Posted on Tuesday, February 02, 2010 - 02:50 pm:   

Weber beat me to it. Sorry, Gary.
des
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Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 129.11.76.229
Posted on Tuesday, February 02, 2010 - 02:52 pm:   

Would have added Des to my dinner party list, but one comic genius is enough, surely.
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Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston)
Username: Weber_gregston

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 194.176.105.56
Posted on Tuesday, February 02, 2010 - 03:33 pm:   

I've got a feeling that I'd be the main course rather than a guest at that party...
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Carolinec (Carolinec)
Username: Carolinec

Registered: 06-2009
Posted From: 82.38.75.85
Posted on Tuesday, February 02, 2010 - 08:49 pm:   

Ooo, this is a difficult one!

I think my dinner parties would have to have themes. For a horror film themed one:

Boris Karloff, Peter Cushing, Ed Wood, Milton Subotsky

Comedy:
John Cleese, Victoria Wood, Michael Bentine, Russ Abbot (don't laugh - I like him!)

Writing:
Lewis Carroll, Mervyn Peake, Jonathan Swift, Rod Serling (from the point of view of his Twilight Zone/Night Gallery writing)

Doctor Who:
Sylvester McCoy, Patrick Troughton, Verity Lambert, David Tennant

Art:
Richard Dadd, MC Escher, David Hockney, Salvador Dali

Music:
George Harrison, Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Wonder, Ian Anderson (of Jethro Tull - he could stay for coffee after the rest had gone home! )

Recent movies:
Johnny Depp ... nobody else, just Johnny Depp
(well, a girl's got to have some fun, hasn't she? )
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Clive (Clive)
Username: Clive

Registered: 10-2009
Posted From: 81.104.165.168
Posted on Tuesday, February 02, 2010 - 10:17 pm:   

'Boris Karloff, Peter Cushing, Ed Wood, Milton Subotsky '

This has reminded me of a friend of mine whose father used to work for Hammer for much of the 60s and 70s and who was friends with Christopher Lee. They lived in south London near Oval and when Lee used to visit they'd all go and watch the cricket. One day Lee brought along a guest who turned out to be Boris Karloff. So one of my mates earliest memories is being age 5ish, sat inbetween Dracula and Frankenstein watching the cricket! No wonder he grew up to be a horror film obsessed film maker himself!
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Nathaniel Tapley (Natt)
Username: Natt

Registered: 11-2009
Posted From: 89.240.59.35
Posted on Tuesday, February 02, 2010 - 10:32 pm:   

"Russ Abbott (don't laugh..."

There wasn't much risk of that...
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Carolinec (Carolinec)
Username: Carolinec

Registered: 06-2009
Posted From: 82.38.75.85
Posted on Wednesday, February 03, 2010 - 12:45 am:   


Actually, I've seen Russ Abbott on stage several times, and he's hilarious. He is, honest. I love that innocent, old fashioned humour that you just don't get nowadays. But then I'm just old fashioned ..

Clive - love that story!
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Hubert (Hubert)
Username: Hubert

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 78.21.235.100
Posted on Saturday, February 06, 2010 - 10:21 pm:   

H.P. Lovecraft for the philosophical conversation

Pat Metheny for the guitar callisthenics

Siouxsie Sioux for passionate after-dinner lovemaking
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Coral (Coral)
Username: Coral

Registered: 10-2008
Posted From: 90.216.127.4
Posted on Saturday, February 06, 2010 - 10:42 pm:   

That's only 3, you need one more.

Caroline, did you see Russ Abbott as the astrologer in the Sarah Jane Chronicals? I thought he was great. Or am I just sad??

Erm... easy peasy...
James Herbert
Ramsey Campbell
David Attenborough
Desmond Morris

Can I have a whole series of dinners, or just the one?
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Colin Leslie (Blackabyss)
Username: Blackabyss

Registered: 02-2010
Posted From: 86.164.67.73
Posted on Saturday, February 06, 2010 - 10:49 pm:   

Lord Lucan
Amelia Earhart
Ambrose Bierce
Glen Miller

Even if the food is poor they will all have some explaining to do...and the photos should make a few pounds
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Carolinec (Carolinec)
Username: Carolinec

Registered: 06-2009
Posted From: 82.38.75.85
Posted on Sunday, February 07, 2010 - 02:34 pm:   

>>Caroline, did you see Russ Abbott as the astrologer in the Sarah Jane Chronicals? I thought he was great. Or am I just sad??<<

No, Coral, I haven't watched that Sarah Jane thingy. But he is in Last of the Summer Wine now, of course. There you are - I'm much sadder than you are if I watch that!

Nice choice with David Attenborough - another one of my favourites. In fact, I'll have a nature-themed dinner too and go for:

David Attenborough
Bill Oddie
That dishy-looking nature photographer who's name I can't quite recall - is it Simon King?
David Bellamy
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Hubert (Hubert)
Username: Hubert

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 78.21.235.100
Posted on Sunday, February 07, 2010 - 03:08 pm:   

Four? Hmm, Dagmara Dominczyk.
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Simon Bestwick (Simon_b)
Username: Simon_b

Registered: 10-2008
Posted From: 86.24.167.138
Posted on Sunday, February 07, 2010 - 03:47 pm:   

Is that share Siouxsie's workload, Hubert? Greedy devil ;)
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Hubert (Hubert)
Username: Hubert

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 78.21.235.100
Posted on Sunday, February 07, 2010 - 04:03 pm:   

gawd, I don't think I would survive a tandem composed of Siouxsie and Dagmara I only ever saw her perform in Wes Craven's THEY and was enchanted straightaway. She's stunning.

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