Fantasy dinner guest

I hope that the person hosting the dinner has hidden all of their valuables under lock and key. Jackie On Assistance is known for her five finger finds.

Also, Gore is very likely to be found be fucked by one of the male dinner guests or at the very least, will be located in the kitchen banging himself with your pepper mill- especially if it is black.

I'd go JUST to out-cunt Bacall and Ono (and to fall at the feet of Sigourney Weaver).

My +1 - My father

How young may I be?

Would it be alright if Jesus stopped by for dessert?

I'd walk through fire for Gregory Peck, so naturally I'd go. My +1 would be Halston.

Most are rotting corpses. Gross.

At least pick all living characters.

Confused by the guest list. Nelson died in January 1979. Sigourney's Alien hadn't yet been released. Robert John Downey Jr. was 14. If it's a complete imaginary guest list, why not a better mix of people? If it's people who could all be invited at a certain time of their lives, huh?

I will accept and my plus one is Fidel Castro.

my +1 is Edith Massey

Mrs. Porter

I voted no. I’ve made up lists like this, but never with so many guests. How does one even come close to talking with each person.

I’ve had dinners with 5 guests and that is about right. Big friends and family parties and cook outs, the more the merrier. But for conversation, you want your list short.

Op, from your list, my five guests would be: Chagall, Visconti, Peck, Becall, and Stern. Vidal would be a replacement if one canceled. I just think of what stories we’d all hear. A wonderful evening, from champagne to cognac.

Estée Lauder

Nelson Rockefeller, Jacqueline Kennedy, Marc Chagall, Luchino Visconti, Gregory Peck, Lauren Bacall, Gore Vidal were all people evidently known by Isaac Stern, according to the recent thread on him. I just thought to myself "that would be an interesting room full of people."

The others are people that I've met personally. Weaver was great - sharp, funny, beautiful - ditto RDJ, Hutton was a riot, Ono was very quiet (it was at a reception for her work).

1978 would be early for Weaver career-wise but she'd still be gorgeous and intelligent. And I doubt RDJ was the typical 14-year-old, although I was thinking of him when I met him (he was 20).

Teensy & Weensy

I'll pass on dinner with all those people but I'd like a fantasy one on one dinner with Luke Kirby (Lenny Bruce on Mrs. Maisel) if we are voicing our fantasies.

Clearly, the only answer for your plus one should be Vivian Vance.

Dan Abrams obviously

What are they serving?

I’d bring Tinky Winky or some other mute. That is a lot of people to listen to.

I'd go with Gaga as my date. She would be respectful of the other talent in the room and a great conversationalist.

Granny Gums

Bootsy Whiteclaw

[quote]Who is you plus one?

A dented can of Del Monte Cling Peaches with half the label ripped off. To place between me and Jackie O.

Catfish and canned peach halves in heavy syrup

I might bring my hairdresser. Gots to impress!

That looks like the ugly hair Corpse wore on Solid Gold

Gore and Jackie hated each other. He lost his position as the Kennedy’s #2 gay when he got into a physical altercation with their #1 gay , Lem Billings, when both were drunk at a White House party. The Kennedys made Gore leave and Jackie never spoke to him again.

Years later, Jackie and Gore ended up in the same elevator, alone, and according to Gore they turned their backs to each other and didn’t acknowledge each other’s presence.

Lee Radziwill told Truman Capote this story about Gore/Lem and the White House, embellishing it.

Truman recounted it in an interview in the 70s. Gore sued for libel and Lee refused to testify on Truman’s behalf, ending their friendship. In revenge, Truman went on the Stanley Siegel show drunk and recounted a bunch of gossip Lee told him about her boyfriends.

I was home sick from school and saw Capote on that Stanley Siegel show.

Jackie Trivia: her first choice for official White House couturier was Arnold Scaasi. She’d worn a red dress of his from Bergdorf’s that she liked.

He wasn’t willing to give her a discount or free clothes, though, so he was out of the running.

Im not sure that is accurate. I think Jackie wore a fair amount of Scaasi while in the WH.

Lauren Hutton??? NO, just no.

I know he’s nearly forgotten now, but Nelson Rockefeller was a fascinating individual. Discussing his art collections alone would easily fill the conversation of more than one dinner.

R32, I agree. I am a staunch liberal, but the Rockefeller Family has/had several interesting and intellectual members, Nelson among them.

Nelson Rockefeller

Jacqueline Kennedy

Marc Chagall

Luchino Visconti

Gregory Peck

Lauren Bacall

Gore Vidal

Isaac Stern

Yoko Ono

Robert Downey Jr.

Lauren Hutton

Sigourney Weaver

I cannot, offhand, think of a less pleasant, more snobbish and openly hostile group of people this side of the current-day Republican party (in comparison to which, in perfect fairness, they are all angels).

What’s on the menu?

Shrimp cocktail Bloody Mary

Cold cube of foie gras with sour cherry chutney/Avocado tartare as veggie option

Broiled oysters served in a sherry consommé

Single stuffed endive leaf salad (sprouts, walnuts, hazelnuts, beets, pineapple, watercress, blue cheese)

Filet mignon on a couch of whipped potatoes with baby carrots and zucchinis/Portobello mushroom as veggie option

Artichoke and ricotta mousse with an aspic shell

Grilled asparagus with poached duck egg

Cured salmon with vodka jelly

Champagne sorbet

Jamaican Goblet (ice cream, crushed meringue, powdered coffee beans and rum)

Fig stuffed with sheep brie

Coffee, brandy, candied chestnuts, chocolates, strawberries, mixed nuts, cognac, bourbon and port

Throw up

Pass out

So at least four of the guests are not on speaking terms:

Gore vs. Jackie

And Bacall vs. Ono. Evidently they were both of the board of the Dakota and loathed one another.

R31, why?

I met her several time sand thought she was hilarious. Also unconventionally beautiful in the best possible way.

My pussy

I go and try to bed Robert Downey Jr. through the entire evening.

My +1 is Shelley Winters.

Shelley Winters my ass!

R41, that gives Bacall one more person to hate.

Mel Brooks would be my plus one. We will need a bit of levity with this group.

I’m sleeping with Jerry O

I will bring Imelda Marcos. She will offer to sing and buy the gay cater waiters to take home and work for her in Manila, like she did with Van Cliburn in the 70s.

She can fight Yoko for the microphone.

Henry Kissinger, oh wait, oops.

David Bowie, naturally.

R47, me likey.

Greg at R36, stop answering your own question.

Karen Carpenter as my plus 1

MAGA list with their dates:

Big dining table

Harlan Crow w/sugar son, Clarence Thomas

Mike Johnson w/adopted son, Michael James

Matt Schlapp w/ Carlton Huffman replacement

Rafael Cruz w/ Lauren Boebert

Miss Lindsey w/ Joe Biggs

Kellyanne Conway w/Sarah Huckabee Sanders

Herschel Walker w/Pam Bondi

Lachlan Murdoch w/Tucker Carlson

Peter Thiel w/Kid Rock

Caitlyn Jenner w/Stephen Miller

Kevin McCarthy w/Matt Gaetz

Greg Abbott w/Madison Cawthorn

^Matt Schlapp w/replacement: Josh Hawley

R49, I am not the author of R36, do us all a favor please and fuck off.

I would bring Eldridge Cleaver.

I would bring Sean Storm.

I will only attend if the event is held at a Golden Corral Buffet and Jackie O is limited to one trip to the chocolate fountain.

She'll probably get it all over her pink suit.

Kellyanne

I’d invite a 2019 Chrissy Metz and a 1981 Karen Carpenter just to see which one of them died first after seeing the other “eat”.

Fred Kruger for a little Dream Master energy.

Although TBF Weaver could probably take him out.

R40, so in case the dining room flips over and floods...

R4 in this scenario you're 22-N-2-HOT-2-B-BELIEVED.

How about a young Sandy Bernhard as +1.

R63, I think you might win. She's underrated as an intellect, has her own weird beauty and would be divinely unimpressed by the rest of them (although I like to think she and weaver would hit it off).

"Robert Downey Jr. was 14."

You say this like it's a bad thing, R8

I go, and my plus one is Kevin Sessums. I will address Lauren Hutton, and read to her all the unhinged social media posts Kevin Sessums has written about her in the last few weeks. I will then ask her directly if she even knows who Kevin Sessums is.

R66, I like the cut of your jib. Perhaps Kev can launch into a rendition of "Floozies", to the delight of the assembled polite society.

Nelson Rockefeller: an interesting and largely forgotten figure in American politics and culture. Would be interesting to talk to him. As cited above, his knowledge of art was impressive.

Jacqueline Kennedy: I don't think too many people would pass up a chance to meet her, whatever you think of her.

Marc Chagall: an artist who went from overrated to underrated without too many people noticing.

Luchino Visconti: mixed feelings. Amazing films, a very cultured man, but evidently something of a sex pest. I dare say he'd be too interested in recruiting a young Robert Downey Jr. to speak to me either way.

Gregory Peck: I have never heard anything negative about Gregory Peck.

Lauren Bacall: I have never heard anything positive about Lauren Bacall. Don't care - love her.

Gore Vidal: mixed feelings. An interesting essayist and critic but also a supremely vicious person. Also, the one at the party most likely to attempt to make any outsider feel precisely like that.

Isaac Stern: no knowledge of what he was like, but assuming he brought his violin, I'm good.

Yoko Ono: think she gets a bum rap. Still not overly interested in speaking with her.

Robert Downey Jr.: assuming Visconti has not talked the lad into a compromising position in the guest bedroom, yes, I would very much like to meet the young Robert Downey Jr. Lightning in a bottle, he had it.

Lauren Hutton: An intriguing woman, an attractive look. I do hope she stays inflated until she gets home.

Sigourney Weaver: love her and would love to see what she and Bacall made of each other.

I think a young Sandra Bernhard and Halston would fit right in.

My plus one would be either Pauline Kael or John Gielgud.

Chuck Grassley

Maybe someone gossipy like Dominick Dunne or Truman Capote.

I am going. But ONLY if there's a vegan option.

[quote]Teensy & Weensy

r14 Why? But lol.

Alan Rockman, preferably during his Die-Hard era.

Although I would be interested in knowing what he was like younger.

RICKMAN

Plus One? Nina Hagen.

R75, I think we have a winner....

I must admit that although the people mentioned in this thread are interesting, I don't think I'd feel comfortable meeting any of them .

My plus one would be Donald Trump.

My hope would be that the other guests would stab him to death about 20 minutes into the meal.

Only if Yoko performs for everyone after dinner.

She will, R79.

She will.

I'd like to take Jane Goodall and the architect Paul Rudolph.

I have so much respect for them both and would love to hear them talk about their lives.

If it's a twofer, Dinah Washington and Bobby Short.

Dinah could say after Yoko stopped warbling: "That was very nice, Miss Ono....but..."

I don't think I want to watch Yoko eat. So don't seat me near her. Lauren and I will smoke cigs and sip the deep brewed flava of High Point coffee. We'll try no to ignore everyone else, but you know how we get.

Kid Rock.

Because the proximity of the filthy rich and cultured next to the just plain filthy guarantees something that approaches comedy!

--Milk & Cheese

In the fourth grade we had to write on slip of paper who we’d most like to meet. I said Samuel Riddle.

What would Jackie contribute to the dinner discussion? Tales of the assassination, perhaps? "And then I crawled right over the back of the Lincoln to fetch his brain matter, which had been shot right out of his skull!"

R86, she could discuss her work with preservation, which involved restoring the White House and saving Grand Central Terminal and Carnegie Hall from demolition.

Martin Gardner.

Kamala Harris as my plus one, which I never thought I would ever think.

I still vote for Freddy.

He would tear through the conversation.

Why would I stay at a party with so many corpses?

OP where would a DLer fit in with all these people? They'd be who the fuck are you? Where's Lenny?

R91, finally you'd find someone you could fuck.

Only if I could be sure Yoko wouldn't sing.

I'd bring Milo Donkeyteefs and his fish-flops.

And a shovel to bury the remains.

A couple of friends and I met Isaac Stern in a hotel bar once after a concert of his we went to. He was at the bar, in his tux, drinking a scotch on the rocks. Signed our napkins but didn't talk to us. Granted he was probably exhausted. But I don't think he'd be first on my list as a dinner guest.

R96, why not?

R97 He didn't seem very animated, charming or conversational.