Stars Favorite Childhood Holiday Presents

Movie stars get flooded with high-end gifts all year 'round -- VIP goodie bags are stuffed with exotic vacations, the latest electronics and designer duds, and then there are the cars and other luxury items. It seems as though the policy is show up in Hollywood and you shall receive. But when it comes to stars' favorite holiday presents from their childhood, we found that sometimes it's the small, more meaningful items that matter most. -- By Marilyn Beck, Stacy Jenel Smith and Emily Feimster

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John Travolta
'Bolt'

"I don't even have to think about it. I was 8 years old, and it was a DC-8 [model airplane] ... with all the details and a stewardess at the door."

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Keri Russell
'Bedtime Stories'

"My first bike. It was a red 10 speed. The first time you get a bicycle is a big deal when you're a kid. It's like you're a big kid -- transportation."

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Stephen Root
'Leatherheads'

"When I was 2 years old, my mom tells me, I wanted a cuckoo clock, so they got me one of those old fashioned cuckoo clocks with the bird coming out of the door, which I still have."

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Vera Farmiga
'The Boy in the Striped Pajamas'

"My favorite childhood Christmas gift was this baby doll that you could feed real food and it could poop and you could change the diapers. That was the best gift I ever received."

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Ross McCall
'Green Street Hooligans'

"This one time, my mom and dad kept me and my brother out of the spare bedroom for like a month. It was torture -- everyday I just wanted to look in. On Christmas day they took us up to the room and opened the door and they had decked it out with a Hi-Fi system -- this was in the day of record players and tapes -- and there was a little portable TV and a sofa bed. It was our own little media room. It was the coolest thing I'd ever seen."

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James Franco
'Milk'

"My old Nintendo."

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Tim Curry
'Rocky Horror Picture Show'

"My favorite gift? Scrabble. I was completely obsessed with it. I asked my mother once, maybe 10, 15 years ago, to describe me as a child, and she said, 'You were the kid in the corner of the room with his face in a book.' I was obsessed with language and reading."

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Susie Essman
'Bolt'

"My mother would always do themes for the eight days of Hanukkah, and one year she gave us an office. The first day, a cigar box. The second day, a stapler and tape. The third, pencils and pens, and so on with all these supplies. We started getting annoyed -- what's with these gifts? On the eighth day I think I got a Barbie or something I wanted. But it's funny, what I really remember is the office."

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Scott Porter
'Speed Racer'

"I made my mom and dad really run around when I was trying to prove whether there was a Santa Claus. I asked for a wooden car with no metal in it at all, because I thought elves would make one like that. My parents got someone to carve a wooden car for me. Then I read 'The Polar Express,' and it said that Santa's sleigh had silver bells, so I asked for silver sleigh bells, and they got them for me. I have amazing parents."

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