50 Ways Hollywood Can Help You Beat the Blues During This Strange Holiday Season

50 ways to cheer yourself up during this depressing time.

1. Take a cue from Jennifer Lopez (a.k.a. J. Lo) and try to come up with amusing hip-hop names for your friends, family and pets.

2. Throw a Billy Wilder comedy film festival made up of Sabrina, Some Like It Hot _and _The Seven Year Itch.

3. Rent The Talented Mr. Ripley and fast-forward to the nightclub scene in which Jude Law, all tanned, handsome and sweaty, sings "Tu Vuo' Fa L'Americano."

4. Read any interview Angelina Jolie's given in the past two years to remind yourself that there still are some people in Hollywood who don't BS.

5. Make a donation to the charity Jolie supports, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

6. Do what Drew Barrymore does to perk herself up--put a fresh flower in your hair.

7. Log on to www.melaniegriffith.com and enter her "avalon."

8. Pop some Newman's Own popcorn and write a check to Paul Newman's Hole in the Wall Gang camps for seriously ill kids.

9. Buy Pamela Anderson some clothes from the L.L. Bean catalog so she can cover up once in a while.

10. Start a campaign similar to the one in Pay It Forward and do nice things for three people.

11. Light some candles and thank your lucky stars that you weren't the publicist for Mariah Carey this year.

12. If you haven't already done so, make a donation to the Tribute to Heroes fund, which was supported by every big Hollywood star from Julia Roberts and George Clooney to Cameron Diaz and Tom Cruise, at www.tributetoheroes.org.

13. Buy the Rush Hour 2 DVD and skip ahead to all the comical flubs tacked on to the end of the film.

14. Take a page from Derek Zoolander's book and invent your own "Blue Steel" look to use on coworkers who have been hard on you all year.

15. Gather up some tots as an excuse to see Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone again.

16. Gather up some tots as an excuse to rent Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas again. Bonus: serve green eggnog.

17. Spice up the company Christmas party by going in a Playboy bunny outfit like the one Renee Zellweger wore in Bridget Jones's Diary.

18. Bake some fruitcake and throw a Joan Crawford (pictured right) movie marathon made up of Humoresque, Possessed, Female on the Beach and Torch Song.

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