Checking A-list Xmas wish lists
SANTABABY, here’s what they want: Susan Lucci: “Go skiing” . . . Rikki
Klieman: “Underwear from La Perla.” (Husband Comm. Bill Bratton said he’ll help her get into it) . . .
Tina Brown: “A week at Golden Door spa, another week in Venice, another week of everybody getting off my back.”
Mel Brooks: “No more gifts. Years ago I got things. I had things. Bought things. I needed things. I don’t want more things. Actually, better not mention me in a Christmas column” . . . And I recall James Taylor saying: “I want a new set of tires.” Me: “You have a car?” James: “No.” Me: “A truck?” “No.” Me: “Right.”
And since last Christmas was with my friend Joan Rivers in her Puerta Vallarta hacienda, what she wanted was “a guy. My recent ones were so fragile that instead of an MRI we just held them up to the light. Old? They turned every mattress into a waterbed.” One year Rudy bought
Judi hair products like Frederic Fekkai shampoo etc. Maybe this year it’ll be better. Maybe this year he’ll throw in conditioner ...
Reese Witherspoon: “I, myself, may cook Christmas dinner. I’ll eat it all, too” ...
Liev Schreiber: “Often I’m working so the feast is usually a sandwich backstage. My early tradition was at my grandfather’s lightinghting the last Hanukkah candle.”andle.”
Mary Higgins iggins Clark, who getsts $15 mil per book: “Att 10, in The Bronx, we had no Christmas tree. My mother waitedd too long to buy one, figuring the price was cheaper at the last minute — but none was left. So she decorated a lamp” . . . Mary’ss daughter Carol l Higgins Clark k: “A generation laterer I was 10, growing ng up in New Jersey, sey, and our big decoecorated spruce toppledpled over in the living ving room. Our family has no luck with trees.” s.”
Cate Blanchett hett who had a Decemember baby: “It’s sexistxist to say a woman’s career ends once her body changes and she gives birth. With my baby I did not abandon my career.eer. I just began wakingng up 2 a.m. and cleaning my kitchen. I look at pregnancy as the ultimate expression of hope in this troubled world.”
George Pataki: “Our house has forestry around but we couldn’t hack down our own tree. If we did, one of our kids would probably cut himself. I get one from where my father took me, the same place since I was a kid. If I went anywhere else, SantaSanta would get confusedfused anda crawl down the wrongwro chimney.”
SolvingSolvi his grampa gift proproblem a lifetime ago, OmarO Sharif broughtbrou FAO SchwarzSch to Canada. PackedPac in a huge cracrate: talking teddy beabears and talking duducks made the ploti plane. “Lawrence of Arabia” star then schlepped it up to Montrreal.
Alfre Woo
dard’s most festive time: “I was fired from my giftwrapping KeKelly temp job as a pperfume spritzer at PPenney’s. Then ffireired from the recepceptionist’s job becbecause I couldn’t opeoperate a switchboaboard. Seems my onlonly skill is actinging.”