Hollywood stars’ holiday memories

LOS ANGELES – May you have time to pause and enjoy time with your family and loved ones this Christmas!

Several stars shared their holiday thoughts and memories with the Inquirer. One of them, Celine Dion, revealed that she and her family had Christmas dinner with her mother, Therese Dion, last October.

Celine Dion

CELINE Dion will celebrate the holidays in Las Vegas. AP FILE PHOTO

JENNIFER Lawrence went skeet shooting with her brother. Photo by Ruben V. Nepales

We are probably going to celebrate Christmas in Las Vegas because I am back on stage there until March. My mom already did her Christmas dinner with the whole family in October so that was very memorable. I learned through the years that it doesn’t matter really if you are spending Christmas in July or December, as long as you make things happen and it makes you feel wonderful to spend time with the people that you love.
Time is very precious. Life imposes things on you. You don’t choose what’s going to happen. It’s written and it’s a good thing that we are not quite sure what happens. I hope people will talk to each other and reach people’s hearts on a bigger scale. I think society and people in general are trying to look for complex things most of the time. Can we just look for one moment, really go through the simplicity of emotions?

Jennifer Lawrence

BRADLEY Cooper loves cooking during the holidays. AP

One of my brothers brought me to skeet shooting for Christmas. So we went skeet shooting and that was really fun. It’s weirdly a nice place to have a conversation except the “Bang! Bang!” in between our conversations.

Bradley Cooper

JULIA Roberts is knitting her gift for her husband. AP

I just love cooking on Christmas. I will cook turkey—stuff it. I love the smell in the kitchen. I love the family being there. I love all the rituals of the holidays. I am a sucker for them.

Julia Roberts

PENELOPE Cruz says Christmas is a time for the entire family to bond. photo by ruben nepales

I am currently knitting a very intricate scarf for my husband (Daniel Moder) for Christmas. It would be a miracle if it’s done by Christmas. We’ll see.

Penelope Cruz

Christmas is a beautiful time to be with your family. Of course, if you have kids, the meaning is different because you get so many memories from your own childhood and what Christmas meant to you. For me, it has always been about the family being together. The best part of the celebration is that everybody is together like one big family.

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