5 Good Things: Famous People I’d Want To Have Dinner With
MARILYN MONROE
To be honest, I never had a more than average obsession with Marilyn Monroe. Like everyone else, I admired her beauty and brains mixed with seductive prowess used for what I personally believe was for protection and learning about her broken upbringing, it was mere survival. However all I know about Norma Jean is from Hollywood documentaries and made for streaming movies, which only enforced her as a film icon. Even with her tragedy that still bewilders popular culture, she was probably more than just a stunning beauty, Marilyn had a presence that captivated whoever was in her company.
The main reason I would want to dine with her is to ask one question. In my teenage years I had a dream about her, and again, I had never been a superfan of hers, but here she was very vividly in my dream. I was swimming in a pool, somewhere in Los Angeles, (I didn’t live in Los Angeles, only visited a few times when I was a teenager) a ranch style house, an atypical Hollywood home. I don’t know why I’m there much less swimming in some stranger’s pool, then suddenly under the water there was Marilyn and she was speaking to me. I couldn’t make out what she was saying, I remember being shocked that she was there. I knew who she was, that she died many years ago. Underwater she just kept trying to tell me something, almost desperately. I popped my head up to see if anyone else was around, no one in sight. So I dunked back down and she was gone. That was the dream, which has stayed with me all these years and still feeling like I had recently dreamt it, it remains so vivid in my memory.
What she brings to the dinner table: I would finally know what she was trying to tell me. Also a sharp sense of humor.
SYLVIA PLATH
From articles I’ve read about her, friends say that she had quite a voracious appetite, so she likely would’ve been a foodie. Although I don’t consider her my most coveted literary heroines, I think her conversations would be immense, if not engaging and thought provoking, maybe even humorous. Being with Sylvia Plath didn’t sound like a walk in the park, but righteous, ambitious, emotional women are rarely simplified. She came from a time when women were judged not of their opinion, but the forthright of speaking it aloud. Sylvia would’ve made a very interesting, complex character in the Real Housewives franchise (not that she would’ve wanted to succumb to reality television, but who knows she might’ve gotten a kick out of it). Imagining what her tag line would be is enough to keep my head in the clouds.
What she brings to the dinner table: A possible table drama that would put RHONJ’s Teresa Giudice’s infamous table flip to shame and far more meaningful.
