Celebrity Dinner Party

If you could invite five famous people to dinner (saving a seat for yourself)... who would you ask? Bill Clinton - no reason needed Gail Collins - she's clever Frank Bruni - I think he's cute I actually can't think of two more I'd really like right now, I have a hangover

• Tina Fey Harry Styles Ricky Gervais Michael C. Moynihan David Bowie

• Neil DeGrasse Tyson - wonderful conversation Bill Clinton - just because he's Bill Richard Engel - Would love to hear about some of his more interesting assignments Dave Matthews - I'm a huge fan Betty White - to keep things lively

• Continuing in your New York Times theme, OP, why not invite Patrick Healy and David Carr? They can recommend a good rehab for you.

• It's a hangover not an addiction, R3. But you've just rocketed to #1 on Cunt Dinner Party.

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• David Duke Rosa Parks Adolf Hitler Martin Luther King Jr Dick Cheney I would sit back with martini and a nice beef wellington and watch them sort it out.

• Jarvis Cocker Christine Lagarde Kelis Tavis Smiley Nigella Lawson (to cook)

• Jimmy Fallon Artie Lang Tina Turner Macy Gray Bruno Mars

• OP you sound really fat. Are you?

• Lisa Kim Kyle Camille Adrienne & of one of those fell out I'd invite Faye.

• R8, why do you say OP sounds really fat? Just because he's immobile and fantasizing about six portions of food?

• Hugh Jackman Neil Patrick Harris Elizabeth Warren Michelle Obama Margaret Cho

• Harry Styles Louis Tomlinson Zayn Malik Niall Horan Liam Payne (I'll be seeking some Direction in a couple of weeks)

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• Lynda Johnson Robb - Presidential daughter, writer Kevin Puts - Pulitzer winner, composer Aung San Suu Kyi - Burmese activist, Nobel Peace Prize winner Prince Harry - Soldier, party guy David Greene - NPR host/correspondent

• Fran Lebowitz Aimee Mann Chris Rock Quentin Tarantino Stephen Fry Cornel West

• Gael Green Gail Simmons Madhur Jaffrey We're at dinner, we might as well talk about food!

• R14, thanks for remembering Cornel West. He would be a fantastic guest!! I'd love to have Julian Bond come, too. He's been a hero of mine since I was a kid, and I met him last year but didn't tell him so because I didn't want to embarrass him with my carrying on about how wonderful he is.

• You'd do better to have John Lewis as your hero rather than Julian. It was John who did the heavy lifting during the movement and even after. Julian was always the pretty one with the elite parents who got more credit than he deserved. Though I am fond of his sister, Jane.

• [quote]Richard Engel - Would love to hear about some of his more interesting assignments Yes, especially the kidnapping.

• Barney Frank Elton John Prince Harry Anderson Cooper Naveen Andrews.

• The Ghosts of: Princess Di Whitney Houston Bob Marley And Charlize Theron Chris Rock

• Ann Curry Matt Lauer Katie Couric Sarah Palin Joan Rivers

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• Stephen Colbert Neil Armstrong Peter Gabriel Leonard Nimoy Frank Borman

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• Richard Simmons for levity. Sal Governale to make everyone uncomfortable.

• Jane Bowles Mary Pickford F. Scott Fitzgerald Sarah Vaughan Orson Welles

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• Sarah Michelle Gellar Skylar Astin Lipstein Sarah Jessica Parker Joseph Love Levitt Seann William Scott

• Albert Einstein, Whitney Houston, Robert Downey Jr, Javier Bardem, Bill Clinton.

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• Thomas Jefferson dining alone.

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• Bill Maher Fran Libowitz Sarah Vowell Wanda Sykes Chris Rock

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• Hillary Clinton Jon Stewart Teddy Roosevelt Cal Ripken Pink

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• Norah Ephron Judy Garland Oscar Levant Kay Thompson Dan Rather

• Cynahia Nixon (former classmate) Diane Lane (former classmate; cousin's ex-gf) Michael Rapaport (former classmate/neighbor) Micahel Learned (ex-sister-in-law) Kenneth Anger (gay director offered me lead in Lucifer Rising II) Those the the five most famous people I ever knew on more than a superficial level, so I'd stick to that.

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• Kim Deal RuPaul Hillary Clinton Joss Whedon Grant Morrison

• Let's get some more party lists before the weekend doldrums invade DL again.

• Carrie Fisher Obama Mark Twain Benjamin Franklin Hilter