Who's your Dead Celebrity Soulmate?

So I hope you’ve all recovered nicely from our dance party and are now ready to learn who your Dead Celebrity Soulmate is. Actually, this is a quiz recently sent to me, and it’s very timely given the question Auriette asked during our dance party earlier this week: If I could invite five people to a dinner party— any five people, real or fictional, living or dead—who would they be? Wow! I thought. When you can cherry-pick your dinner party guest list from an entire universe of choices—when history and your imagination are your only limits—to whom would you serve your Chicken Piccata? (That’s what I always serve my guests, anyway.) You can read about who I invited to my fictional dinner party in the dance party comments below, but as per usual, this question only got me asking myself more questions: what if you didn’t just dine with a historical figure. What if you could date a historical figure?

         For instance, the other day I got an email from my sister, and it contained two sentences I never in my life expected to read side by side: “Have you seen the new images of George Washington? Hubba hubba!” Seems they’re recreating more accurate images of George for display at Mount Vernon, as the images of him with which we’re most familiar—like the one on the dollar bill—are apparently the least flattering and least accurate. George apparently was “a vibrant, athletic man.” Our first president, in other words, was a babe.

          I’ll confess to once developing a serious crush on Thomas Jefferson after I saw the movie version of the musical 1776 when I was much younger.  Ken Howard played him, and Thomas Jefferson sang and danced in the movie, as did John Adams and Ben Franklin and the rest of our founding fathers. Boy, after that movie, I really thought Thomas Jefferson was a stone cold fox. I also saw the movie of Jesus Christ Superstar at some point in my crush- susceptible early childhood and fell madly in love with Ted Neely, who played Jesus. This seemed all wrong, but it seems at that point my criteria for developing a crush on a historical figure was singing and dancing. 

          As for more recent non-singing-and-dancing crushes, I still have a sort of retroactive crush on Richard Feynman, the Nobel prize winning physicist who also played the bongos, experimented with sensory deprivation chambers, helped solve the mystery of the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion, and was basically the first person to envision nanotechnology (little teeny computers, etc.), among millions of other interesting things. Look at that photo of him at that link. Doesn't he seem like a fun guy?

          So first take the quiz to find out who your Dead Celebrity Soulmate is (mine is apparently old E.A. Poe, the guy up there in the graphic), and then…if you're not happy with him...which historical figure would you like to share an intimate little dinner (meaning wine, footsie under the table) with this weekend?

Comments

[Kathy K]

Hi Julie,

Very much rested, thank you! You really do know how to show people a good time ^.^

My 'Dead Celebrity Soulmate' #1 is Leonardo ~ da Vinci of course! My #2 and #3 respectively were ... I can't remember his name; he played sheikhs in silent movies... Rudolph Valentino(??) and Vincent Van Gogh... I'll stick with Leonardo thank you very much!

Fun way to start the morning.. or rather add to the morning; my days start at about 6:15 so it's midday to me... well, not quite.

Kathy

[Kathy K]

Missed the second half of the question....

Geez, if I have to come up with a real historical person that I'd like to share an intimate dinner with [could it be Dom Perignon?? ^.^] that could take me awhile. He'd have to be someone sexy with long, dark flowing hair, definitely Alpha... hmm William Wallace aka Braveheart [as portrayed by Mel Gibson]; although I have a feeling there'd be little footsie ~ or at least it would progress rapidly.
Yep.. that's who it would be.... *wink*

Kathy

[Jennifer Y.]

My 3 potential soulmates were Van Gogh, Poe, and DaVinci. I am not sure which historical figure I would want to have dinner with in real life. Hmmm...will have to think about that.

[Julie Anne Long]

I think I ended up with Edgar Allen Poe in part because I chose "self reflection" as one of the interests. LOL. Yeah, one might say Poe had *that* perfected!! I'm going to go back and choose "be-wigged" under hair preferences to see who comes up. Just for variety's sake. :)

Mmm...good choice on your dinner date. Do you think William Wallace has good table manners Kathy K? Better than Dom Perignon's? ;)Or maybe table manners are rather beside the point when you're sitting with William Wallace.

[Kathy K]

Poe and self-reflection... yep, he would have had that down pat!

And yes, William Wallace's table manners would certainly not be the point ~ and scintillating conversation would SO not be necessary either.
Looking at, and drooling over [figuratively, of course!] are all that I would be capable of anyways. *sigh*

Dream on Kathy {I tend to talk to myself... bad habit} ^.^

[Isabel]

Julie, your blogs are always so much fun :)
I got Raven as my first choice, then VanGogh...can't go wrong with those soulmates LOL

[Julie Anne Long]

Isabel!! Glad you're back in action, computer-wise. I think we're all going to be fighting over the same guys!! LOL. We're all interested in writing, travel, self reflection, art, etc. What a pity one of my interests wasn't "poison" or "subjugation." That might nicely expand the number of historical figure lonelyhearts I could choose from. LOL.

I was thinking it might be fun to have dinner with Lord Byron, but Georgie would probably be checking out the ladies at the next table even as he played footsie with me...

[Diana]

My three potential soulmates were: Edgar Allan Poe, Vincent van Gogh, and Leonardo da Vinci. In seventh grade my classmates and I had to choose a poem to memorize and recite to our English class. I chose Annabelle Lee by Poe, which remains one of my favorite poems.

[Haven Rich]

I got Da Vinci, E.A Poe, and Van Gogh.

Now if I could go back and meet anyone I wished!! I'd like a dinner with Shakespeare.