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Gift Guide: No Kid (or Geek) Can Resist a Spinning Lightsaber

Another Movielne HQ favorite from the Hasbro shipment: the Spinning Electronic Lightsaber. Here’s the problem with your normal, run-of-the-mill lightsaber — it doesn’t spin. Now, I’m not exactly sure why the lightsaber needs to spin, but it does make a pretty nifty light up effect as it does. And it gets better…

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Gift Guide: No Kid (or Geek) Can Resist a Spinning Lightsaber

Gift Guide: Sick of Stupid Movie-Star Gowns? Greta Garbo: The Mystery of Style Is for You

Movie-star style is an enduring source of fascination, though today it seems to find its greatest expression in mostly run-of-the-mill (if jaw-droppingly expensive) red-carpet gowns: When you’ve seen one exquisitely draped Marchesa confection, you’ve seen them all. If you’re as sick of stupid gowns as I am, you’ll love Greta Garbo: The Mystery of Style, a coffee-table extravaganza filled with pictures of a woman who, off-duty and on-, really knew how to dress — and there’s not an overpriced, overdesigned Louboutin in sight.

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Gift Guide: Sick of Stupid Movie-Star Gowns? Greta Garbo: The Mystery of Style Is for You

Gift Guide: Move a Ball With Your Brainwaves in Mindflex

There’s already more than enough distractions in the world right now, so how about giving kids a game that nourishes concentration for once? Mindflex not only rewards the most focused player, but it also features a headset that reads the player’s brain waves and allows players to move a ball around an obstacle course using only their mind. Which is amazing.

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Gift Guide: Move a Ball With Your Brainwaves in Mindflex

Gift Guide: Soon To Be a Major Motion Picture by James Franco…

This fall The Adderall Diaries , Stephen Elliott’s brilliant, propulsive mixture of memoir, manifesto and true crime was released in paperback just as James Franco bought the film rights, promising to write, direct, and star in the film himself.

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Gift Guide: Soon To Be a Major Motion Picture by James Franco…

Gift Guide: Amy Sedaris Can’t Make You Rich, But She Can Save You A Bundle on Crafts

If you have a friend who is poor, bored, crafty, and/or appreciative of subversive humor, he/she will benefit from Simple Times: Crafts For Poor People , Amy Sedaris’ new hardback featuring lessons on making crab-claw roach clips, tinfoil balls, and crepe-paper moccasins.

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Gift Guide: Amy Sedaris Can’t Make You Rich, But She Can Save You A Bundle on Crafts

Gift Guide: Shoot Your Home Movies in 3-D

I know. It’s been no fun at all to shoot or watch any home movies ever since Avatar (or possibly Piranha 3-D ) blew your mind and changed the way you looked at images. But don’t despair! Now there’s a portable and affordable HD camcorder that actually shoots in 3-D.

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Gift Guide: Shoot Your Home Movies in 3-D

Gift Guide: Eastbound and Bobble

How would Kenny Powers celebrate the holiday season? Probably by giving his friends miniature likenesses of himself that pitch his fastball catchphrases on command. Now, the person you love can be reminded of his/her favorite premium cable misanthrope every day with this 7″ resin bobblehead.

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Gift Guide: Eastbound and Bobble

Gift Guide: Meet Robert Pattinson For the Low, Low Price of $32,500

At least as of this writing, that’s the going rate for the ultimate gift for affluent Team Edward devotees: A visit to the set of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn and a brief meet-and-greet with Robert Pattinson.

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Gift Guide: Find Old Faves and New Treasures in The Elia Kazan Collection

The problem with best-of DVD collections is that they usually include so much more than you need — or even want. But The Elia Kazan Collection (20th Century Fox DVD ), which includes 15 Kazan treasures selected by Martin Scorsese, is lean, mean and essential.

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Gift Guide: Find Old Faves and New Treasures in The Elia Kazan Collection

Gift Guide: These Pillowcases Tell a Story (Literally)

Scottish visual artist David Shrigley has worked in a variety of media from cartoons to music videos to spoken-word pieces. Now he can add “bedding” to the list, with the mordantly whimsical bedtime story he’s written for two pillowcases that make a perfect gift for bedtime readers and entertainment-starved insomniacs alike.

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Gift Guide: These Pillowcases Tell a Story (Literally)