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In Hollywood, nothing much gets done the last few weeks of December. Ordinarily, if Christmas and New Year’s fall on a Monday or Friday, executives take a three-day weekend. If the holidays fall on a Tuesday or Thursday, make it a four-day weekend. But as the holidays fall on a Wednesday this year, hey, there’s no point in coming to work Monday, Tuesday, Thursday or Friday. And that’s for two weeks.

So, if they’re not at the studio, where is everybody? It’s pretty evenly divided between surf and snow. Disney Chairman Michael Eisner is in Aspen; Disney Studios Chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg has opted for Oahu, Hawaii. While Columbia Pictures Chairman Mark Canton is catching rays on Maui, his boss, Sony Pictures Chairman Peter Guber, is skiing in Aspen.

And there are others in Hawaii: Paramount’s Brandon Tartikoff, Warners’ production executive Lucy Fisher, director Richard Donner, MCA Motion Picture Group Chairman Tom Pollock and MGM-Pathe Chairman Alan Ladd Jr.

Aspen, which has always been known as a hangout for Hollywood’s movers and shakers during the holidays, is no different this year. A few of the people you’ll find there are Barbra Streisand, Sylvester Stallone, Don Johnson, Melanie Griffith, “Top Gun” producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer and former 20th Century Fox owner Marvin Davis.

For those tired of Aspen, Deer Valley, Utah, is another popular winter celebrity resort. Among those there include Kevin Costner, Danny DeVito, producer Brian Grazer and writer-director Lawrence Kasdan.