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PEOPLE & ARTS Thursday 21 december 2017
When it comes to holiday cards, which celebs do it right?

By LEANNE ITALIE great,” he said.
Associated Press Liam Neeson, who stars in
NEW YORK (AP) — Holiday “The Commuter,” really
cards of the paper and appreciates a certain old
stamp variety still get sent, friend at the holidays.
so what does that look like “Steven Spielberg. Since
celebrity to celebrity? ‘Schindler’s List’ he never
Hugh Jackman of “The forgets my birthday and he
Greatest Showman” never forgets Christmas,”
wasn’t giving up any Neeson said. “I adore him
names, but he told The for that. And there’s years
Associated Press recently I forget to send the cards
there does sometimes feel and stuff like that, but Ste-
like a competition this time ven is so, he’s just very, very
of year. loyal. I really appreciate
“Some of these holiday that, yeah.”
cards are remarkable,” he Christina Hendricks, who
said. “I’m, like, did Annie appears in the Agatha
Leibovitz shoot this? We do Christie-based “Crooked
kind of rate them a little bit. House,” said other than
It’s horrible to say.” Neil Patrick Harris and
Jackman’s co-star, Rebec- David Burtka, she has no
ca Ferguson, wasn’t shy standouts in mind on holi- This combination photo shows George Clooney at the 80th Academy Awards in Los Angeles on
about a little name drop- day cards. Feb. 24, 2008, left, and Matt Damon at the Los Angeles premiere of the Clooney-directed film,
ping: Tom Cruise. “Do people still do cards? “Suburbicon,” in Los Angeles on Oct. 22, 2017. Damon and Clooney have previously worked
Of her “Mission: Impossible I’m so impressed,” she said. together in the 2005 film, “Syriana,” the “Ocean’s Eleven” films and 2014’s “The Monuments
— Rogue Nation” co-star, Harris and Burtka go all out, Men.” Associated Press
Ferguson declared that though. “They always do
“Tom’s quite good at it.” a nice one with their kids.
She explained, “Usually at They’re very theatrical.
birthdays I’ll get Tom’s sig- They like to dress up and do
nature cake. He says it’s costumes,” Hendricks said.
dairy free, wheat free, glu- Frenchman Gilles Paquet-
ten free, sugar free. It’s b-- Brenner, her director and
-s---. He just wants to fatten the film’s co-screenwriter,
up everyone else around still isn’t used to the whole
him. But I’m not much of a holiday card thing.
person who keeps in con- “It’s so American,” he said.
tact. You know, I shoot “We would never do that in
a movie and I move on. I France. We kind of laugh.
have my friends and I wor- When I get cards from
ship and maintain that.” American people that ac-
Patrick Wilson, who ap- tually do that, it’s sweet
pears in next month’s train but it’s just kind of, oh they
thriller “The Commuter,” still do that.” Matt Damon,
has a favorite celebrity who gets small in “Downsiz-
card sender. ing,” hears from the usual
“The most fun holiday colleagues in cards.
cards I would get were “You would think that
these painted cards from Clooney would send out
Phil Collins that were pret- something funny, but he’s
ty awesome, although so serious now,” Damon
now that I think about it I deadpanned of his “Sub-
haven’t gotten one in a urbicon” director. “You
few years. Phil, come on. know, he’s married, he’s
Yeah, ‘cause he paints as got kids. He’s really settled
well. They were like of dogs down, so I’m not really ex-
and things. It was pretty pecting anything.”q