1. USA TODAY · THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2007 · 5D
Holiday gift guide
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As pretty
Costume sketch
by Milena
Canonero,
Collins Design
as a picture
What’s inside these holiday books is
so eye-popping you won’t need to bother with
wrapping paper. USA TODAY’s Jocelyn McClurg
and Bob Minzesheimer found 10 titles
that will make you say “wow.”
Touchstone Pictures/ABC
The Star Wars Vault
Warren Beatty: By Stephen J. Sansweet and Peter Vilmur
Dick Tracy. (Harper, $85)
uWhat it’s about: Sansweet, head of fan
Christmas Around relations at Lucasfilm, says he owns “the
Dressed: A Century the World largest private collection of Star Wars mem-
of Hollywood Costume Design By Chuck Fischer, text by Anne Newgarden, orabilia in the world.” Step inside his “vault”
By Deborah Nadoolman Landis Glamour Girls paper engineering by Bruce Foster and travel to a galaxy far, far away — all
(Collins, $75) By Patrick McMullan (Little, Brown, $30) timed to the 30th anniversary of the original
(PMc Publishing, $75) movie.
uWhat it’s about: Original sketches and uWhat it’s about: An illustrated uWow factor: It’s a “scrapbook” packaged
movie stills from Hollywood’s greatest hits uWhat it’s about: Page after page of “interactive” celebration of Christmas with with removable, reproduced goodies, such
— in the clothing department. gorgeous women in gorgeous gowns, shot an international flair from France to Russia. as George Lucas’ handwritten treatment for
uWow factor: From the blinding yellow of by the celebrity photographer. uWow factor: Seven pop-ups, 11 The Empire Strikes Back, and two CDs with
Dick Tracy’s overcoat to the candy-colored uWow factor: Paris, Oprah, Nicole, booklets, three-dimensional Santa’s sleigh cast interviews. (Also for the fan: Star Wars:
pastels of Marie Antoinette, this peek inside Gwyneth and Gwen. They’re all here, to build and advent calendar built into the A Pop-Up Guide to the Galaxy by Matthew
moviedom’s closet is well-Dressed. striking glam red-carpet poses. Kiss kiss! windows of a snow-crusted German village. Reinhart; Orchard/Scholastic, $32.99.)
Vanishing World:
The Endangered Arctic
Photos by Mireille de la Lez,
text by Fredrik Granath
(Abrams, $40)
Antarctica:
The Global Warning
By Sebastian Copeland
(Earth Aware Editions, $55)
uWhat they’re about: Dual looks
at polar opposites — the Arctic and
Antarctica — with
Titanic much in
By Martin Jenkins and
Brian Sanders, common. Through
paper engineering magnificent photo-
America the Beautiful Ralph Lauren by David Hawcock graphs, the books
By Ralph Lauren (Candlewick, $29.99) send out an SOS
By the editors of Life magazine
(Rizzoli, $135) Iconic America about what’s at stake
(Time Inc. Home Entertainment, By Tommy Hilfiger
$29.95) uWhat it’s about: A 32-page in the fight against
uWhat it’s about: with George Lois (Universe, $60)
book on the glory and tragedy global warming.
uWhat it’s about: A coast-to- A photographic “memoir” by of the Titanic, plus uWow factor: Polar
the American designer as “told” uWhat it’s about: The reproductions of artifacts,
coast photographic tour of 100 clothing designer celebrates bears, the poster
don’t-miss spots in the USA. through family photos and including tickets, menus and mammals of the
lavish spreads of models “icons” of American pop the front page of The New York
uWow factor: You’ll be culture from Babe Ruth to Clint green movement, are
humming a patriotic tune as in Lauren’s signature tweeds Times of April 16, 1912 the star attraction in
and plaids. Eastwood to USA TODAY. (“TITANIC SINKS . . . ”).
you sightsee from your uWow factor: Clever the dazzling white
armchair, thanks to stunning uWow factor: As big and uWow factor: A 3-D paper landscape of Vanishing World.
glossy as a billboard, Ralph juxtapositions (an apple pie, the model of the ship that folds out
images such as Vermont’s fall Apple computer logo) and bold In Antarctica,
foliage and the red-hued rocks Lauren is an exercise in to nearly 2½ feet (not Copeland’s camera captures melting
conspicuous coffee-table-book graphics (courtesy of designer seaworthy).
of Utah’s Bryce Canyon. Lois) give this book visual pop. glaciers, eerie in their icy blue beauty. Celeb
consumption. With its own alert: Copeland’s cousin, Orlando Bloom,
heavy slipcase and a designer joined him on his journey; Leonardo DiCaprio
price tag to match. wrote the preface.