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Originally posted by Icarium Icarium wrote:

Hmmm

Hard to know which people/actors to be mutch at ease in a room together and a nobody likemyself but i would go afterctheir level of geek/nerd factor so


Nicolas Cage seem to be a levelheaded guy, from an interesting family, here som juice storries from the Coppola houshold, hes a comic book fan, he likes to spend money.

Henry Cavill he is a fantasy nerd, reads Wheel of Time, paints Warhammer figurines in Carenteen, hes Superman, would work well with Nic whom named hes son Kal-El.

Emilia Clarkseems to be a good spirited girl with humor and pretty an nerdy.

Petter Stormare I could need some breaks from speaking English, so i could talk some Swedish/norwegian inbetween.



Maisy Williams seems to be cool, quirky and funny to be around.


I don't know about the rest but some of Cage's prized possessions don't suggest somebody who is on the level. Would be fun quizzing him about those, though.

I want to maybe take Ferrell out of the list and add an actress. Marisa Tomei. Not only because she is still attractive but the sound of her voice when she opens her mouth doesn't mar her beauty and only adds to the vitality and youthfulness she exudes. I may venture to ask her how she has 'survived' showbiz so well, as actresses in particular don't.
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Noel Coward (a sh*t actor but one of the funniest and most talented men in history)
Ray Winstone (you always need someone to take care of gatecrashers)
Robert De Niro (you always need someone to dispose of their bodies)
Peter Capaldi (you always need a nominated Tardis driver)
Jake Gyllenhaal (you always need a Jewish existentialist Democrat to step in for Woody Allen at the last minute)


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Tom Baker - the quintessential Doctor has to take first place.

Phillip Glenister - Because Gene Hunt.  And Quinn in Mad Dogs.

Daniel Mays - My favorite portrayal of the prince of the darkness (as Glenister's nemesis).  Second place goes to Jamie Sheridan's portrayal of Randall Flagg in The Stand (1994).

Kevin Sorbo - Big fan of his from Hercules and Andromeda.  Plus he's a pretty cool dude.

Gary Sinise - Basically, loved him in everything I've ever seen him in, plus he's also a pretty cool dude. 
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Albert Einstein
James Joyce
Johann Sebastian Bach
Hildegard von Bingen
Pablo Picasso

I guess we would have a very interesting conversation.


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Originally posted by BaldFriede BaldFriede wrote:

Albert Einstein
James Joyce
Johann Sebastian Bach
Hildegard von Bingen
Pablo Picasso

I guess we would have a very interesting conversation.

Hi,

According to a lot of stuff written by my dad, Pablo did not have a lot of words, and usually said one word or sentence and left. James Joyce, apparently was able to stay and discuss anything all night long ... until he was able to conceive his next writing book!

Can't tell you about the others, although I find Einstein a bore, and only his "characterization" in the film INSIGNIFICANCE makes any sense, but even then, it is strange and probably off kilter. 

Hildegard ... what an interesting choice ... I suppose that we could joke that in a convent one could get bored and write a lot of interesting things?
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^ I would haveed oyut Einstein from that list and included Richard Feynman
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Originally posted by BaldFriede BaldFriede wrote:

Albert Einstein
James Joyce
Johann Sebastian Bach
Hildegard von Bingen
Pablo Picasso

I guess we would have a very interesting conversation.


Great choice of company certainly Thumbs Up, but were any of them actually actors?
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Originally posted by ExittheLemming ExittheLemming wrote:

Originally posted by BaldFriede BaldFriede wrote:

Albert Einstein
James Joyce
Johann Sebastian Bach
Hildegard von Bingen
Pablo Picasso

I guess we would have a very interesting conversation.


Great choice of company certainly Thumbs Up, but were any of them actually actors?
James Joyce's Widow Tw**ky at the Regent Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent in 1932, is still talked about by aficionados of pantomime.
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Originally posted by moshkito moshkito wrote:

Originally posted by BaldFriede BaldFriede wrote:

Albert Einstein
James Joyce
Johann Sebastian Bach
Hildegard von Bingen
Pablo Picasso

I guess we would have a very interesting conversation.

Hi,

According to a lot of stuff written by my dad, Pablo did not have a lot of words, and usually said one word or sentence and left. James Joyce, apparently was able to stay and discuss anything all night long ... until he was able to conceive his next writing book!

Can't tell you about the others, although I find Einstein a bore, and only his "characterization" in the film INSIGNIFICANCE makes any sense, but even then, it is strange and probably off kilter. 

Hildegard ... what an interesting choice ... I suppose that we could joke that in a convent one could get bored and write a lot of interesting things?

This may surprise you: Einstein was a party animal who told lots of funny anecdotes at parties. He also was a big womanizer. That's certainly not what people usually associate with Einstein; most people think of him as living in his ivory tower thinking about physics, but trust me it is true. I read three biographies of Einstein. It is not as if he went to parties all of the time though, but nevertheless he was often invented and always was the center of attention there, and not just because he was Einstein but because of the way he behaved at parties.

There is a nice little party anecdote of Einstein. At one party he claimed he could remove his shirt without first removing his waistcoat and demonstrated it (with some contortions) to the other guests, with big applause. Whereupon his wife Elsa drily remarked: "He practiced three weeks for this". He did this to demonstrate a topological issue.


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Maybe it’s because my dad and his dad worked with films and tv, but ever since I was a young kid I remember being on various sets and seeing many famous Danish actors of the time up close...and it very quickly dawned on me that many of them merely were ordinary folks who happened to be talented actors.
When I then apply this to the query of whom I might consider bringing along to a party, my very first thoughts are a) they have to come off as sympathetic creatures ie not too big for their bridges as they say in England and b) interesting/funny/etc.
I love Marlon Brando and find him fascinating. He makes me think. Would I like to enjoy his company at a party? Not so sure.

Nahh..I’d probably opt for some peeps that always seemed like good guys - folks you could drink a beer with afterwards.
Robin Williams fx. Would’ve loved to have him swing by. Jim Carrey likewise...especially after he’s been making such interesting videos. Mads Mikkelsen is another one. I love the fact that he has turned every offer down from Hollywood every time he makes a new movie and they want to ‘change’ his teeth. Nope. He still sports those cigarette-coloured Transylvanian chompers.
Last two? Obviously “Fleksnes” and Dirch Passer

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hmmm...

my parties were legendary back in the day

#1 Jane Russell... and if you have to ask why...  you are a true living in momma's basement prog weenie...

#2 Sam Elliot...  after needing to re-hydrate after spending many hours getting to know Jane intimately.. we'd throw back a few and recreate some serious Roadhouse scenes and kick everyone's asses who were brave enough to attend a Mick party. 

#3 Meryl Streep... good God back in the day man..

#3  Lisa Bonet.  Why?  ever seen Angel Heart?  yeah.. I'd like to to 'discuss' that with her. 

#4  Uma Thurman.  My one of fantasies always had been to dance that Pulp Fiction dance with her naked on a pool table.. never done that before.. oh I have by myself but suspect it would be much more fun NOT by ones self

#5 and to finish the evening...  testing the limits of sobriety with William Holden
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Some of my favorite movies include the following actors/actress. In no order.

Tom Hanks
Sally Field
Christopher Guest
Jodie Foster
Woody Allen
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Marilyn Monroe



Mae West


Jayne Mansfield



Anita Ekberg



Gina Lollobrigida



and then we'd have an orgy...


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^ If only Barbara Dennerlein had gone to drama school and any of the stubbornly 'straight' examples had consented, who knows?


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Why not? She would fit in well.


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You both in carnal congress with Barbara Dennerlein and me marrying Daniella Van De Donk (an avowed lesbian) are about as likely as PA admitting Prog ended circa 1979.




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Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

Maybe it’s because my dad and his dad worked with films and tv, but ever since I was a young kid I remember being on various sets and seeing many famous Danish actors of the time up close...and it very quickly dawned on me that many of them merely were ordinary folks who happened to be talented actors.
When I then apply this to the query of whom I might consider bringing along to a party, my very first thoughts are a) they have to come off as sympathetic creatures ie not too big for their bridges as they say in England and b) interesting/funny/etc.
I love Marlon Brando and find him fascinating. He makes me think. Would I like to enjoy his company at a party? Not so sure.

Nahh..I’d probably opt for some peeps that always seemed like good guys - folks you could drink a beer with afterwards.
Robin Williams fx. Would’ve loved to have him swing by. Jim Carrey likewise...especially after he’s been making such interesting videos. Mads Mikkelsen is another one. I love the fact that he has turned every offer down from Hollywood every time he makes a new movie and they want to ‘change’ his teeth. Nope. He still sports those cigarette-coloured Transylvanian chompers.
Last two? Obviously “Fleksnes” and Dirch Passer
Many here would probably nnot respond to the name "Fleksnes" (though he have an english origin) both Denmark and Norway got their own "Marve Fleksnes" in Norway that role was filled with Rolv Wesenlund. I also love "Fleksnes". fun fact Rolv Wesenlund hosted the first radio shows in the 60s that played and promoted then than dangerous type of musuc called rock n roll/ rock music, which were not seem in good light by the established media, bu Rolv located in Bergen was the first promoter of rock on the radio.
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Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

Maybe it’s because my dad and his dad worked with films and tv, but ever since I was a young kid I remember being on various sets and seeing many famous Danish actors of the time up close...and it very quickly dawned on me that many of them merely were ordinary folks who happened to be talented actors.
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I say the same thing about a lot of writers that visited our place. The difficult ones to say a whole lot about, are the more famous ones that my dad translated into Portuguese, and almost every one of those visited. The only one I did not like was Hemingway, but I was 4 years old and I think he was trying to scare me!

Most fun? Aldous Huxley ... what you thinking little boy?

Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

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Robin Williams fx. Would’ve loved to have him swing by. Jim Carrey likewise...especially after he’s been making such interesting videos. 
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If you have the chance, and hopefully find it, Robin's session with James Lipton in THE ACTOR'S STUDIO is absolutely one of the best of all the shows ever done, in an incredible list of great folks that stopped by, and kinda gave you an idea of who you wanted to have fun with ... 

I was also thinking, that IRENE PAPPAS would have been a really good person to have in the show, and talk to, considering her very large and varied list of works.

One other actor of importance ... MARCELO MASTROIANNI ... who in his later years was such a smooth and talented actor, compared to his early days just floundering by with all the women that made him and them look better and more attractive ... and how many Sophia films? He must have been in love with her Lasagna ... Peter Sellers was!

Speaking of the devil, Peter Sellers would be a fun one, but I doubt any of us would get anywhere with him on the other side of the microphone ... he was too elusive and hidden inside and he never spoke much, or what he did speak was just about the same things he did as Bluebottle or the Major Dennis Bloodnock! You would think he might have things to say about a lot of films, but I doubt it ... I think many of them were just a blur in his mind as he is that kind of actor ... when he gets started you try to grab as much as possible ... and I heard one story about him ... that he ended up doing more voices in one film, because he said as a joke ... I can do better than that crap ... and he did!


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Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

hmmm...
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#3 Meryl Streep... good God back in the day man..
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Hi,

You have to see her on THE ACTOR'S STUDIO with James Lipton .... you would never have thought ... what?

Totally hilarious!
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hi,

Other thoughts and interesting people.

SAM SHEPARD ... from acting to flying colored ping pong balls to playing drums at the doorway to the off-off-Broadway theater where his play was being done ... a lot of stories I bet!

CHRISTOPHER LEE ... even though he is better known for one character, he also had a very large list of other films he was a part of, and he was not a one trick pony actor.

ANITA PALLENBERG ... she might have a lot of stories, but I think that she would also show quickly that she was a much better actress than she was given credit for.

GLENDA JACKSON ... sadly her list of works seemed to disappear after some theater and then Ken Russell. I always thought she was interesting and could have done more, but it seems like ... she disappeared and did not become one of the grand dames in English acting like a couple of others have!

One last one, not an actor ... CINEMATOGRAPHER SVEN NYKVIST ... who made so many people look great on screen and one day got himself an Oscar! How he "saw" people in many of the directors he worked with would be a very strong and interesting topic!
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