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Christmas Goodies

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Your Outtakes holiday bonus:

Tackiest Card? Our vote goes to KIIS-FM morning man Rick Dees, whose Christmas greeting--sent to industry friends--portrays Santa and his elves as . . . KIIS contest winners! Picturing a quartet of elves crowded around a phone receiver (with Santa in the background), the card says: “Rick Dees? Is that you?? We WON?!? WE WON!!! . . . “

Foxiest Greeting: Virgin Vision’s (a Virgin Records video wing) fold-out Christmas card in three parts, which reads: “Virgins are like holidays. . . . You wait so long . . . and it’s over so soon!”

Most Shameless Holiday Stunt: KABC-TV movie critic Gary Franklin counted down his 1988 Top 10 films on Tuesday’s 5 p.m. news . . . but stopped at No. 4, making viewers tune in again at 11 p.m. to hear his Top 3! (Top 10 winners included “My Stepmother Is an Alien,” “Biloxi Blues” and “Mystic Pizza,” with “Mississippi Burning” and “Gorillas in the Mist” sharing No. 1.)

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Best Christmas Party Quip: Dressed as Santa, Columbia Pictures emprez Dawn Steel hosted a lavish holiday bash on the Burbank lot last week. After vowing happier box-office tidings in the new year, she introduced upcoming “Ghostbusters II” stars Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd, who appeared in ‘Busters drag.

With his current film, “Stepmother,” quickly turning into the second consecutive box-office bomb for Weintraub Ent., Aykroyd told the crowd: “Cheer up--you could be working at Weintraub!”

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