If you could meet one person from history, who would it be?

[lisztisforkids]

 Im going with this guy.. The most influential person in history? Probaly.

 

[ada]

Well JC would be sort of interesting to talk to with the benefit of hindsight I suppose but I'd go for Beethoven.

Very sexy man .... that wild hair, that stormy expression, romantic fashion sensability and a brilliant mind.

Would also like to sink a pint or two with Dylan Thomas. Also very charismatic and a v good poet if a hopeless drunk. I have something about Welshmen.

Also, would have liked to run into Sylvia Plath at a campus party, though I don't think she'd have been very nice.

[pianistimo]

hmm. ada and i have more in common than i thought.  just no waxing. 

[danielle1]

I would like to meet mozart the most, but maybe George Washington too

[thalbergmad]

I would like to meet Jack the Ripper.

[gonzalo]

I would like to meet Charles Louis Hanon and torture him to death, thus making him unable to write his book.

[gilad]

i would like to meet adolf hitler.
also i would like to meet ghandi, do you know he lived 2 houses away from my house when he lived in johannesburg. how strange.

[living_stradivarius]

Im going with this guy.. The most influential person in history? Probaly.

 

You'd have to learn some Aramaic.

[brewtality]

Marilyn Monroe. 

[lisztisforkids]

Marilyn Monroe. 

 I think she is actually terribly overated.

[jas]

I would like to meet Jack the Ripper.

Funny, about a week ago I was talking with some friends about which five historical figures we'd invite to a dinner party and I chose him as one.

But if I had to pick just one, Elizabeth I.

[pianistimo]

funny.  on a recent radio show - they were talking about the boston strangler and how they caught him.  they told this older lady (who had thought she might have had a killer in her home when he looked at her funny so many years ago) and found his name and the contractors name were identical after they found him.

if i remember right - he was first going after young, then old, then basically anyone.  it was extremely random. apparently the guy was po'd that his wife told him she didn't want to have sex with him anymore.  most guys would either accept it or divorce.  apparently he coped in a different way. 

what is strange is that he killed all these other people but never his wife.  she must have had some strange power over him, too.  usually, you hear people go back and shoot or something - but wierdly he must have been in awe of her.  there's some movie out now about a superpowered ex-girlfriend.  strange.  why not let by-gones be by-gones and move on.  why the retaliation?

[brewtality]

I think she is actually terribly overated.

Funnily enough, I would say the same about your choice...
She is the best, except for maybe Greta Garbo I can't think of another woman who makes all the others look so plain.

[ada]

I agree about Marilyn, she was gorgeous  , up there with Dylan Thomas I would say.

She was most beautiful as a young girl before she became famous (Norma Jean) and of course the tragic looking pix of her in the ballet tutu (that SJP has shamelessly ripped off) are stunners.

And anyone who pulled Arthur Miller must have had something going for them.

[arensky]

Funnily enough, I would say the same about your choice...
She is the best, except for maybe Greta Garbo I can't think of another woman who makes all the others look so plain.

true

[arensky]

F.F.C.

[lilypiano]

I agree about Marilyn, she was gorgeous  , up there with Dylan Thomas I would say.

She was most beautiful as a young girl before she became famous (Norma Jean) and of course

Have you ever heard of Blonde, by Joyce Carol Oates? It's explores Marilyn's life as Norma Jean and contrasts it to her more public life as blonde icon.  Oates presents  "Norma Jean" and "Marilyn" as divisions in her identity, rather than different periods of her life.  I haven't read it yet. t I think I might.  It's a fictional story, but I think Marilyn did posess a more complex and private identity that was separate from her public image. 

[lisztisforkids]

 Napolean be another choice of mine.

[brewtality]

Have you ever heard of Blonde, by Joyce Carol Oates? It's explores Marilyn's life as Norma Jean and contrasts it to her more public life as blonde icon.  Oates presents  "Norma Jean" and "Marilyn" as divisions in her identity, rather than different periods of her life.  I haven't read it yet. t I think I might.  It's a fictional story, but I think Marilyn did posess a more complex and private identity that was separate from her public image. 

I saw a terrible movie starring Poppy Montgomery that had the same title, perhaps it is a film adaptation? I think there was another Marilyn film with Ashley Judd as Norma Jean. I thought that was bad casting, Judd is very beautiful but hers is a different type of beauty.

[bananafish]

Andy Warhol