If You Could Invite 5 Actors To Your Party, Who Would They Be?

Clase Bang
Christopher lee
vincent Price
Bella Lugosi
Boris Karloff

 

Wing Chun
Bruce Lee
Jackie Chan
Jean-Claude Van Damme
Donnie Yen

 

Clint Eastwood
Marilyn Monroe
James Cagney
Judy Garland
Bill Murray

 

Howabout if I invite Ringo Starr, Mike Nesmith, Theodore Bickel, Frank Zappa and Jack Nicholson...and tell half of them they're here to do a table read of Head...and tell the other half they're here to do a table read of 200 Motels...?

 

Steve McQueen
Frances McDormand
Humphrey Bogart
Orson Welles
Phillip Seymour Hoffman

 

Branagh and Thompson were married. Branagh had an affair with Bonham Carter, and then divorced Thompson. The table talk would be interesting.

 

was just having a similar idea but my guest would be Irene Jacob.

 

Get a group of nothing but former divorcees, lol.... "You're spending all night with the people you thought you'd never see.. BRB!"

 

Clara Bow
John Candy
Amanda Peterson
Bill Murray
Cathryn Harrison

 

That's an interesting selection.

Bow and Peterson led tremendously sad lives. Candy died young (and I've always been under the impression that he was basically an unhappy person). Murray has a history of egregiously not getting along with people. I don't know anything of Cathryn Harrison, other than she's a part of the Harrison show-biz clan and died before she reached her 60th birthday.

 

It could be a party you'd want an Ingmar Bergman to film. In black and white.

 

Robert Donat
Ida Lupino
Robert Ryan
Cary Grant
Dirk Bogarde

 

I hope that you can get your dinner parties through before I die because I'm pretty sure that Marlon Brando, Sean Penn Nicholas Cage and Robin Williams will be permanently booked torturing me at my dinner party in Hell once I've shuffled off this mortal. I can't see why any of you would want them in your homes.

I'm also a bit worried at how many of you think that “dinner party” is a euphemism for something more steamy. If I'm serving these people supper I think I'd rather not be trembling with apprehensive lust at the same time.

So, here are five:

• Joshua Malina - seems like a really nice guy and can tell me all about The West Wing, my favourite TV Series
• Emily Mortimer - another Sorkin alumna, unquestionably glamorous (so shoot me) but also a smart cookie (studied English and Russian Literature at Oxford)
• Jason Bateman - huge likability and a very varied resumé
• Patrick Macnee - in addition to playing John Steed in The (original and still the best!) Avengers, he was amazingly clubbable and had an extremely colourful background, including being expelled from Eton for selling pornography and making book
• Tamsin Greig - a charming conversationalist with a good sense of humour, who would fit in with the other very well

 

I don't do parties. Little desire to witness any mom/dad dancing or forced jollity. Might extend the offer of a bite to eat though. No dead bodies around my dining room table. It's lunch, not a séance. Send invites to......

Lily James
Jodie Whittaker
Peter Riegert
John Cusack
Keely Hawes

 

Denzil Washington
Sam Neill
William Sadler
Ernest Borgnine
Claudia Christian

 

James Stewart
Jason Robards
Ann Bancroft
Richard Benjamin & Paula Prentiss
Lee Remick

 

Madeline Kahn
Terry Garr
John Belushi
Gene Wilder
John Cleese

 

Dustin Hoffman
Candice Bergin
Arthur Garfunkel
Jack Nicholson
Ann Margaret

 

I'm surprised no one threw some actors and critics... Some were friends, ala Pauline Kael and Robert Altman.