<p>Aw, siliconvalleymom <3 And ohh Eddie Redmayne </p>
<p>Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr (Burr just because I would want to know what the two would have to say to each other over the dinner table now! :D), Amelia Earhart, Elon Musk, and Alice Paul.</p>
<p>decisions, decisions. Never was good at making them…</p>
<p>Golfers:</p>
<p>Fred Couples*
Darren Clark
Tom Lehman
Annika Sorenstam
Patty Berg</p>
<p>Male Celebs:</p>
<p>George Clooney
Denzel Washington
Hugh Jackman
Sidney Portier
Johnny Carson*</p>
<p>Female Celebs:</p>
<p>Meryl Streep
BIllie Holliday
Lucille Ball
Princess Catherine*
Jennifer Anniston</p>
<p>Politicians/Newspeople:</p>
<p>Tim Russert*
Tom Brokaw
Colin Powelll
Michael Bloomberg
Condelezza Rice</p>
<p>CC contributors (recent)</p>
<p>MomofWildChild*
Swimcatsmom
bevhills
Blossom
jym626</p>
<p>Those that have left us or/and MIA on CC
curmudgeon*
BCEagle91
Marite
LateToSchool
Sunriseeast</p>
<ul>
<li>If I have to pick one in each category 
Would seriously love to have dinner with even ONE of the above…</li>
</ul>
<p>Just lunch with Melinda Gates. Really.</p>
<p>Jym,</p>
<p>I sent you a long PM, but your box is full.</p>
<p>Oooo, I like Bay’s idea of inviting my best friends from the olden days:</p>
<p>Louise
Judy
Rima
Wendy
Pauline</p>
<p>-- all women who, among them, have at least an MD, two PhDs, a JD, and undoubtedly a few more degrees I don’t know about. I had some brilliant friends who have all succeeded in life. And, they were fun, funny, and a wonderful group of people.</p>
<p>Sorry bookworm. Its all better now. Please resend :)</p>
<p>** And thanks, gosmom. Would be fun!</p>
<p>Sticking to the living:</p>
<p>Robert Pinsky
Atul Gowande
Hilary Clinton
YoYo Ma
My son</p>
<p>Dean Martin
James Dean
Marlon Brando
Elvis Presley
Pedro Infante </p>
<p>I would add Frank Sinatra if I had a couple more guests.</p>
<p>If we have all of time and space…</p>
<p>Queen Elizabeth I
Julius Caesar
Benjamin Franklin
Leonardo DaVinci
William Shakespeare</p>
<p>Ronald Reagan
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Ghandi
Jesus
And my Dad, because he would SO love the conversation.</p>
<p>I hope someone other than xiggi will get my pick. It deals with current events.</p>
<p>Vicente del Bosque
Luiz Felipe Scolari
Diego Costa
Marcos Senna
Sepp Blatter</p>
<p>Hemingway and Scott Fitzgerald.<br>
Picasso and Matisse
Frances Ford Coppola. </p>
<p>All with a plus one</p>
<p>I like Emeraldkitty’s idea. How cool would it be to meet with your parents and/ or grandparents at the same age you are.</p>
<p>I would be a charming dinner guest :)</p>
<p>Thumper, I would invite you. 
And Hindoo (who no longer comes around, sadly), mathmom (so we could talk books :D), Teriwtt, and Sikorski.</p>
<p>LOL, I’d be happy to talk books anytime intparent!</p>
<p>I just heard Joss Whedon rant about his least favorite question “Why so many strong female characters?” And I immediately thought, I need him at my dinner party! Who shall I boot? </p>
<p>I think I’d like to invite Peter Sellars (opera director) even though I don’t like opera, because I once had lunch with him and thought he was the most brilliant conversationalist I’ve ever met and would love to see if I still thought that. I know someone else who had the same experience twenty years later so I suspect I would.</p>
<p>Well, I decided that since I have an empty nest, I have time to have two dinner parties. That made it easy. :)</p>
<p>Fun thread. I will invite my husband, our daughter, her best friend, our son, and his best friend. After dinner we’ll walk around the lake and keep switching walking partners so we can ‘catch up’ with each other, just like we did when they lived with us. I miss them and their cool friends. When we get back home, we’ll play cards. I’ll finally win. :)</p>
<p>Ann Richards
Dorothy Parker
Sarah Vowell
Maya Angelou
Margaret Cho</p>
<p>Hoping that the conversations would be fast, loud and uncensored.</p>