What celebrity would you bring back from the dead if you could?

[Shell Beau]

[TZ]

1. Jim Henson.

The muppets just don't seem the same....:-(

[Bertha Venation]

8. Jinx!

You owe me a Coke.

[peruban]

71. Dammit, I didn't see your post before I posted mine.

Jim Henson was a genius. I actually cried when he passed away.

[LynneSin]

2. JFK Jr

What a great guy whose life was cut too short

[Initech]

3. Frank Zappa

[TroglodyteScholar]

34. Seconded!

[redqueen]

4. Hunter S. Thompson

or Phil Hartman

[XemaSab]

5. Kurt Cobain

So that people might actually come to realize he was GROSSLY overrated.

[soleft]

6. Heath Ledger

[Mollis]

27. Agreed

Definitely Heath Ledger

[Hobarticus]

37. Thirded.

After "Dark Knight", I just sat in the theater and thought, "damn, I'm never gonna see him, ever again."

[tismyself]

54. Fourthed.

I really enjoyed seeing what he was up to in the news, he really cracked me up.

[Bertha Venation]

7. Jim Henson.

I wish he were able to see the joy he started.

[Ishoutandscream2]

9. Are you kidding? John Lennon, hands down

Surprised no one mentioned it earlier.

[DarkTirade]

16. 2nded.

[BurtWorm]

10. Louise Brooks.

In her heyday.

[Tikki]

11. Joey Ramone....

Jeffry Hyman AKA Joey Ramone...he'd be so excited about Mr. Obama's election victory.


Tikki

[Rabrrrrrr]

12. If it was someone who would then date me, Audrey Hepburn. Otherwise, Orson Welles.

[MrCoffee]

13. Abe Vigoda

[Bake]

26. Hey Beano, he's not dead.

:rofl:

Bake

[av8rdave]

14. SRV or Kurt Vonnegut

[Forkboy]

15. Paul Lynde

Carl Sagan would be cool, too.

[Peregrine Took]

17. Cary Grant (!!)

[Lincolngirl]

39. Cary Grant!

Yum!!!

[Maccagirl]

18. Christopher Reeve

Healthy and whole, obviously.

John Lennon-also a no-brainer (so that he could have seen Sean grow up).

[stuntcat]

23. yes Christopher Reeve

& not just because I've always been in love with him.

[RFKHumphreyObama]

77. I agree with this choice

I feel so sorry for Christopher and Dana Reeve's son, who has now lost both of his wonderful parents. I'd bring them both back

[kwassa]

19. Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Brian Jones, Keith Moon, Michael Hutchence

Joe Strummer, and other rockers.

Bob Marley.

Otis Redding. Duane Allman. Sam Cooke. Lowell George. Buddy Holly.

James Dean.

[semillama]

20. Bill Hicks!

Sorely missed and needed these last 8 years.

[Initech]

22. I think Bill would've climbed to the top of the watchtower by the end of the 1st term.

[yurbud]

21. Abe Vigoda

[Rambis]

24. Jerry!

I miss that fat man!

[redqueen]

31. Aw, yes. (nt)

[lazyriver]

41. Hell yeah.

[Deja Q]

25. Gene Roddenberry and Gene Coon

Then we can settle this star trek remake thing once and for all. (I'd bet real money neither of them would care for it, apart from praising how well effects technology has come...)

[LiberalEsto]

28. Senator Paul Wellstone nt

[Lucian]

30. Ditto.

:thumbsup:

[RushIsRot]

29. Peter Sellers

[SoxFan]

32. MLK

Something tells me he's very happy with a certain recent political development.

[Shell Beau]

42. That is who I was thinking too. He'd be happy even if it did take

forever and a year for a black man to be President.

[CBGLuthier]

33. Charlie Christian

He left us way, way too early

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkyIqYYBX-4

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

35. Johnny Cash

So he could tell the country music establishment that waitied til he was dead to start playing his 90s stuff to get bent

kind of like he did after "Unchained' came out in this ad he put in Billboard magazine
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[Kitty Herder]

36. John Lennon.

[susanna]

38. Marilyn Monroe.

She was a very interesting person, from most accounts.

[Lindsey]

40. John Lennon. n/t

[guitar man]

43. John Belushi

Comedy really needs him, bad. :(

[mcctatas]

44. Ronald Reagan...

because when he saw what has become of the rethuglican party, the shock would kill him again anyway :evilgrin:

[Westegg]

45. John Henry Bonham. Jesus a close second.

[rvablue]

46. Can't believe I'm the first to post this one: River Phoenix!! n/t

[Burma Jones]

47. Jimi Hendrix

All the other good ones were taken.....

[Guava Jelly]

48. Francis Albert Sinatra

:)

[terrya]

49. Edit

I'll let others answer this question.

[MrCoffee]

50. .

:toast: for terrya

[terrya]

51. Never mind. You're right.

I'll edit.

I had a shitty day today and I don't feel like arguing. My bad.

[MrCoffee]

52. No offense intended, terrya

:hi:

[martymar64]

53. Jerry Garcia, Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix and Abbie Hoffman

[Mike 03]

55. I think Kurt Cobain. NT

[Drunken Irishman]

56. Would they be a zombie?

[tigereye]

57. Joe Strummer

and Charles Nelson Reilley! We just saw the classic X-file with him in it - he was excellent!

[ghostsofgiants]

58. Joe Strummer is my choice as well.

[tigereye]

65. do you listen to those BBC radio? sessions he did? I heard a few of em

he is sorely missed- what a great guy. I wish I had seen the Clash more than once... :(

[ghostsofgiants]

67. I wish I could have seen them at all.

[tigereye]

68. I know - young guys at the music store flip out when I tell them how many

times I saw the Ramones. (and everyone saw them several times or more at the time, since they toured non-stop) It still makes me sad to think that they aren't around anymore. :(

There's a Joe Strummer tribute coming up here fairly soon. One time a bunch of my music pals did all of London Calling at a show and it was very, very cool.


Hell, I wish I could have seen Cab Calloway, Betty Carter sing, Coltrane, and Dizzy! (and I probably could have if I hadn't been obsessed with punk at the time.) I did get to see Muddy Waters, Sun Ra and the Art Ensemble of Chicago before some of them/ seminal members of the Art Ensemble passed on.

[ghostsofgiants]

75. I did White Riot with my friends' band a little while back, that was pretty fun.

I'm in such an isolated region that even if those guys were still around, I probably wouldn't have the opportunity to see them. It kinda sucks.

[lunatica]

59. River Phoenix

[matcom]

60. William Shatner

wait. what?

[Deja Q]

61. Wait a moment... I'm immortal!

:rofl:

[pokerfan]

62. Buddy Holly

Consider that his success lasted only eighteen months before his death. Think of what he could have accomplished had that plane not crashed.

[Fire Walk With Me]

63. Alan Ginsberg.

He'd rip the establishment a new one. And the citizens as well.

There are several spiritual figures I'd be interested in as well.

[peruban]

72. Just imagine what he'd say about current politics.

[zingaro]

64. Freddie Mercury. nt

[Cairycat]

66. Warren Zevon.

I'd love to hear the songs the current situation could inspire him to write.

[travelingtypist]

69. Jim Hutton and Jonathan Frid

My two first-ever crushes.

[peruban]

70. Jim Henson.

The world needs more men like him.

[Mad_Dem_X]

73. Heath Ledger, definitely.

I'm still not over that. :cry:

[kentauros]

74. Gregory Peck and John Candy

:D

[KansDem]

76. Paul Newman.

I think he would rejoice at the election of Barack Obama.

[RFKHumphreyObama]

78. Paul Newman

Not only because he was a first-class actor and human being but it is also sad that he never saw Obama get elected as President. He would have loved that, I'm sure

[RFKHumphreyObama]

79. OK, flame away, but here's another one -Barack Obama's mother

I think she always knew that her son had great potential and was fulfilling that great potential when she passed away. But I would have liked her to have been at her son's side when he was giving his victory speech, along with the rest of the family. It is also a shame she never got to see her beautiful granddaughters in Malia and Sasha