A spoof of Mel Gibson's Christmas cards, which should really be apology cards for his reprehensible and irrational behavior in recent years.

This celebrity Christmas card depicts a somber Mel Gibson in front of a festive Christmas tree. He is holding a gaily-decorated gift that prominently displays his feelings of remorse. Mel’s still handsome face has some indication of his aging quickly from a little too much stress or, dare I say, alcohol use. The recipient of this Christmas card can surely fill in their own opinion as to what Mel is sorry for.

Mel Gibson born in Peekskill, New York on January 3rd, 1956, the sixth of 11 children, moved to Australia when he was 12. His father, a staunch Roman Catholic, moved the family so his boys would not have to go to Vietnam. His father held strong beliefs concerning his religion. When Mel did the The Passion of the Christ movie, it caused a great deal of controversy concerning its treatment of the Jews. His father, Hutton, had made some anti-Semitic remarks that were widely publicized. Mel Gibson claimed that his father’s opinions were not his own and that he was guided by the Holy Spirit while making the movie. That begs the question, “Where was the Holy Spirit when you were arrested for drunk driving and making anti-Semitic remarks?” Is it possible that Mel was apologizing for the anti-Semitism in this Christmas card?

Mel Gibson married his wife, Robin, in 1980 and they have seven children together. It recently came out that they were now getting a divorce. A devout Catholic who built his own church so the mass would be said in Latin, is getting a divorce?!? Pray tell, Mel, what has happened to Mad Max and his moral center? Have you gone off the deep end? Perhaps this Celebrity Christmas card is to apologize to your wife for your “Celebrity” behavior.

Although this farcical Christmas card will not actually be sent by Mel Gibson, maybe it should be. A talented and successful actor, Mel Gibson seems to have gotten off track somehow. Perhaps he learned the wrong lessons at his father’s knee and should go back to his Catholic training and ask the Holy Spirit to guide him to the true meaning of Christianity.

Robert Pattinson, star of the vampire saga “Twilight” and “Noon Moon,” has brought a different meaning to the color red this Christmas season.

This past holiday season was over-saturated with all things Twilight, due in large part to the release and success of the film adaptation of the first novel in Stephenie Meyer’s insanely popular teen vampire saga. Nonetheless, if I had a reason to correspond with the movie’s star vamp, Robert Pattinson, I’d be conflicted as to whether I should send Christmas cards or condolence cards.

Twilight is the, ahem, love story of 104-year old vampire, Edward Cullen, and 17-year old high school girl, Bella Swan. The story, which apparently came to Meyer in a dream, has been deemed “the next Harry Potter” by some. Do you hear that? It’s the sound of a million J.K. Rowling fans hissing.

In my opinion, Twilight has nothing in common with the far superior Potter series – except Pattinson, who portrays tragic figure Cedric Diggory in the fourth Potter film, The Goblet of Fire. If we are to believe anything we read in the press, he had no idea what he was getting himself into when he signed on to play the lion that falls in love with the lamb (Excuse me while I gag!). As a result of the staggering fame he has fallen into, everything from the length of his hair to his showering habits (or lack of them) is dissected in gossip magazines around the world. Fans are selling badly-Photoshopped Christmas cards featuring the brooding actor in a Santa hat, and paparazzi are stalking the poor guy en route to the airport to fly home for the holidays! If we are to believe him, he just wants to be a musician – but he can’t even sing at bars anymore because he’ll be recognized. He consoles himself by saying the most smart-alecky things he can think of in interviews – including calling Stephenie Meyer mad and accusing her of being convinced that she is Bella Swan. Once you’ve read the books, you see that he’s probably right, and you can’t help but like the guy.

Book stores and teen hotspots succumbed to vampire mania for the Christmas season, with displays and merchandise available for all who wished to have the sparkly-est of holidays. Several months have passed, however, and Pattinson and the rest of the cast are already hard at work on the sequel to Twilight, New Moon. Recognizing a cash cow when they see one, the film company behind the series is cranking the movies out as quickly as they can, lest their teenage audience age beyond caring. While the quality of these films is questionable, one thing is for sure – the cast, as well as Stephenie Meyer, can count on at least a couple more of the most prosperous Christmases they could ever wish for. I’m pretty sure that Summit Entertainment will send a nice bonus in Pattinson’s next Christmas card, smart-aleck remarks and all!

Sandra Bullock should be depicted as an angel on her Christmas cards because she often plays the role of one – on and off the screen.

Perhaps Sandra Bullock should have someone design special celebrity Christmas cards with her picture on it…maybe one depicting her with angel’s wings to credit her for her acts of humanitarianism. On the day after Christmas in 2004, when an earthquake struck off the northwest coast of Sumatra, the tsunami that resulted devastated India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and Thailand. That fateful December 26th left 225,000 dead, tens of thousands injured, and 10 million homeless. Sandra responded by donating one million dollars to the American Red Cross. This was the second time she contributed that amount of money to that particular charitable organization.

Christmas also seems to have played a role in Sandra Bullock’s career and personal life. In the movie While You Were Sleeping, which is set during the holiday season, she plays a fare collector for Chicago’s elevated railway. The high point of her work day is selling a token to a commuter whom she has a secret crush on. While working on Christmas day she witnesses her secret love being mugged on the platform and thrown onto the tracks. She springs into action, saving him from imminent death by an oncoming train and then accompanies the now comatose imaginary boyfriend to the hospital. There she is overheard fantasizing aloud, “I was going to marry him,” by a nurse on duty who informs the doctor, a policeman as well as a member of the man’s family. From that point on the film begins to take shape. But you’ll have to see the movie to find out how everything ends up.

Did you know that Sandra Bullock is a plane crash survivor? Just prior to Christmas in 2000, Sandra was a passenger on a chartered jet that crashed at Jackson Hole Airport in Wyoming. The plane missed the runway on approach; hit a snow bank instead and the resulting damage included both the nose gear and nose cone being ripped off, the right wing being partially separated from the plane’s body, and the left wing being bent back. Obviously she survived and we fans are grateful for that.

I wonder if Sandra Bullock is even aware of how the Christmas season has affected certain aspects in her life. When she sends or receives Christmas cards each year is she mindful of these particular occurrences? Whether or not, she will always be thought of as a Christmas angel to me…one who deserves a Christmas card designed especially for her!

We’re not sure what Drew Barrymore’s holiday cards look like, but we do think they should reflect how far she’s come from a dark past to a bright future.

During the holiday season, when we are thinking of gifts and holiday cards and joy, it crossed my mind that Drew Barrymore, whom I admire, should choose a holiday card that would celebrate the strides she has made in her life.

There are many things I respect about Drew Barrymore. I love that she is “who she is.” She has traveled to a place where she seems to really have figured out that she likes herself…an enviable place for anyone to get to, in my opinion. Whether she is aware of it, I don’t know, but I believe that she has had angels in her life. Many who started out the way she did have not survived the journey.

One can only imagine the rocky path on which she first trod. It was a pure case of too much too soon, and an apparent serious lack of adult guidance. She was introduced to “show biz” at the tender age of 11 months! When you read about her beginnings, you wonder how she had the strength to turn her life around. Drugs and other forms of substance abuse were introduced to her at the young age of eleven.

Now if I were to be consulted on the holiday card issue, my thought would be to avoid the typical Santa Claus, tree ornaments, bells, or snow people in favor of something that I find untraditional, yet adorable that typifies Drew. That something is her participation in the adorable, “Olive, the other Reindeer” video. With characters named Olive, Martini, and Round John Virgin, the Christmas card possibilities seem innumerable. Can’t you just picture Drew with antlers, and her friend, Martini, singing, “Silent Night?”

No matter what holiday card Drew decides on, the true gift that she gives is her blithe (her middle name is Blyth), spirit, and big heart. She was named Ambassador Against Hunger for the U.N. World Food Program in 2007, which is a serious honor. What shows that this gal steps up to the plate is the fact that she personally donated one million dollars to the cause.

Based on her demeanor and lifestyle, six time Academy Award nominee and star of "The Holiday" Kate Winslet, would send traditional Christmas cards featuring a photo of her family or perhaps a snow covered winter scene.

Kate Winslet is a consummate actress. Along with numerous other awards, she has the distinction of being the youngest actress to be nominated for six Academy Awards, finally winning one for The Reader. Her roots are in acting. Her mother, Sally Anne and father Roger John Winslet, were “jobbing actors,” who supplemented their careers by working as a barmaid and a swimming-pool contractor respectively. Her maternal grandparents founded and operated the Reading Repertory Theatre. Her uncle and sisters are also actors.

I was watching The Holiday the other night. What a perfect Christmas movie. Even though Kate Winslet spent most of her holiday season in L.A., her home in the movie, occupied for Christmas by Cameron Diaz, was a picture perfect Christmas scene. I began wondering how Kate Winslet would spend an acutal Christmas.

I envision Kate’s Christmas as being traditional and this proved true as she spoke about Christmas on late-night television shows. Her children still believe in Father Christmas, as Santa is known in the U.K. When asked by Jay Leno if the wrapping paper would cause suspicion, Kate’s answer (in case her children would see the show) was, “the gift wrap in the North Pole is so completely different. You can’t get the same gift wrap that you’d get in New York or London. There is no confusion, we have got it down.”

She has forewarned others not to spoil her children with frivolous Christmas gifts. She tells family to only buy books and pens or mittens and hats. I really wonder how her children feel about that. I can’t imagine the children being very excited come Christmas morning.

This past Christmas took the family home to Reading for a traditional English Christmas celebration at her parents’ home. She described the celebration as, “A very, very Winslet Christmas with lots of people, lots of noise, lots of children, lots of presents and log fires.” How much more traditional can you get? I think there may have been more than books and pens or hats and mittens under the tree on Christmas morning in Reading.

I don’t know what type of Christmas cards Kate and hubbie Sam actually send. I can see them sending a snow-covered winter scene, but photo Christmas cards featuring a picture of the family around a fireplace with the Yule log burning may be a better choice and more typical of their lifestyle.

Kate’s weight issues have often been a topic of articles in celebrity papers. One magazine had erroneously published that Kate had visited diet doctors. She sued and won a libel settlement of £3000 ($6,000). Kate donated this settlement to three eating disorder charities. I find myself agreeing with her in regard to her feelings about fashion magazines and young girls. Our preoccupation with thin models and thin actresses has driven a number of young girls to eating disorders. I can only say that she has my vote when it comes to banning fashion magazines and unrealistic images of women from her home.

Kate has donated to numerous other charities such as the Afghanistan Relief Organization and U.K. charities Cardboard Citizens, a theater company for homeless people, and the National Literacy Trust, among other worthwhile charities.

Kate Winslet seems to me to be her own person. She may have an uphill fight trying to protect her family from the onslaught of celebrity magazines and their fabrications to make sales of their editions. I wish her the best of luck as she seems to be a genuine person that has not forgotten her roots.