Dinner with anyone ... Top-3

Get in line behind Ace, d_b.

 

No problem, as long as it's a different day...

 

I'll have dinner with Andre.

 

Johan Cruyff (not only a great athlete, but a genius)
Marilyn Monroe
Ulysses S. Grant

 

My deceased grandfather
Gary Smith
Bruce Springsteen

 

1. P.G. Wodehouse
2. Terry Pratchett
3. Anthony Burgess

 

My paternal grandfather (who died long before I was born)
My maternal grandfather (who died long before I wa born)
Walter Payton (who died well before his time)

No living humans interest me that much.

 

That's some serious ass-kissing, Doc.

 

My current ME threw this question at me during my interview, living people only. My reply ...

1. President
2. Spike Lee
3. Bill Cowher

... Because you know Spike would mix it up with Bush, but could talk sports all night with Cowher just the same. I wish I would have said Buck O'Neil then, though.

 

George Carlin
Hunter S. Thompson
Dick Schaap

 

Funny you say Norman Fell because The Graduate is on right now (TCM).

 

Ledbetter, I have to tell you, AWESOME list (makes me rethink mine!). I saw Carlin live in Vegas once, amazing. And the other two, well, just awesome.

This is taped to my desk at work:
``The journalistic principles are the same for covering a pennant race or a race riot,'' Schaap wrote of his craft. ``You use your eyes, your ears, and, as Jimmy Breslin has always preached, your legs. You go to the scene. You talk to the people involved. You ask questions. You look for the small details that reinforce credibility, and then, using those details, using quotes, using the richness of the English language, you tell the story as vividly, as honestly, as compellingly as you can.'' - Dick Schaap.