If I could invite any 100 people, living or dead, fictional or real, to my fantasy blow-out party (complete with foie gras, fire jugglers and pony rides, _of course_) it would be the following:

• Woody Allen
• Paul Thomas Anderson
• Warren Beatty
• Ingmar Bergman
• Juliette Binoche
• David Bowie
• Marlon Brando
• Jeff Bridges
• Steve Buscemi
• Jimmy Carter
• Raymond Carver
• Charlie Chaplin
• Anton Chekhov
• Pema Chodron
• Joel & Ethan Coen
• Stephen Colbert
• Willem Dafoe
• The Dalai Lama
• Daniel Day-Lewis
• Robert De Niro
• Robert Downey Jr.
• Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• Atticus Finch
• Henry Fonda
• E.M. Forster
• Robert Frost
• Werner Herzog
• Alfred Hitchcock
• Philip Seymour Hoffman
• Rock Hudson
• Jesus Christ
• Ken Kesey
• Søren Kierkegaard
• Stanley Kubrick
• Lao-Tzu
• David Lynch
• Marshall McLuhan
• Randle Patrick McMurphy
• Karl Malden
• Terrence Malick
• Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• Liza Minelli
• Robert Mitchum
• Bill Murray
• Jack Nicholson
• Friedrich Nietzsche
• Peter O'Toole
• Laurence Olivier
• Al Pacino
• Sean Penn
• Dr. Drew Pinsky
• Plato
• Isabella Rossellini
• Carl Sagan
• J.D. Salinger
• Martin Scorsese
• Peter Sellers
• Douglas Sirk
• Patti Smith
• Socrates
• Sophocles
• Sissy Spacek
• Jimmy Stewart
• Jon Stewart
• Meryl Streep
• Joe Strummer
• Henry David Thoreau
• Leo Tolstoy
• Lars von Trier
• Lao-Tze
• Liv Ullmann
• Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
• Max Von Sydow
• Sarah Vowell
• Tom Waits
• Orson Welles
• Winnie the Pooh
• Kate Winslet