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As Americans prepare to talk turkey, we had to ask, what's a poor ol'celebrity got to be thankful for?

 BLESS HER SOLES Richards sings the praises of her Manolos Denise Richards
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BLESS HER SOLES Richards sings the praises of her Manolos

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• MARLON WAYANS (''Scary Movie'') ''My nine brothers and sisters who ate up all the food and left me hungry on Thanksgiving so that one day I would strive to make some damn money to have a dinner big enough to feed all 10 of our greedy black asses.''

• ELLEN BURSTYN (''Requiem for a Dream'') ''That I'm working more at this age than at any stage in my career.''

• KELLY PRESTON (''For Love of the Game'') ''Trailer trash food -- sloppy joes, corn dogs, and Tater Tots.''

• ALLISON JANNEY (''The West Wing'') ''False eyelashes, martinis, and bikini waxes.''

• JEFF GOLDBLUM ''I'm thankful for cold cereal, which gives me great comfort and pleasure.''

• TORI SPELLING ''Thanksgiving dinner. My dad goes for the pecan pie, but I love the cranberry sauce in a can and mom's awesome Jell-O mold.''

• CHRISTA MILLER (''The Drew Carey Show'') ''My new baby, despite the long birth process.''

• DENISE RICHARDS (''The World Is Not Enough'') ''My brand new Manolo [Blahnik] shoes -- the first pair I ever bought.''

• ILLEANA DOUGLAS (''The Next Best Thing'') ''My real breasts!''

• PATRICIA ARQUETTE (''Little Nicky'') ''That I haven't been skinned alive or covered in bees.''

• JULIE DELPY (''An American Werewolf in Paris'') ''Is that what Thanksgiving's about? We don't have Thanksgiving -- I'm French. But I love the yams.''

• VAL KILMER (''Red Planet'') ''I'm thankful that I'm Native American.''

• JULIA ROBERTS ''I'm thankful for life's mysteries.''

• RODNEY DANGERFIELD (''Little Nicky'') ''That I'm able to still talk coherently and say, 'I'm thankful.'''

• WILL FERRELL (''SNL'') ''That I still have all my own teeth with no cavities.''

• KRISTEN JOHNSTON (''3rd Rock From the Sun'') ''That in the last few years, my mother has somehow relaxed a little bit.''

• RICHARD RUCCOLO (''Two Guys and a Girl'') ''I'm thankful for my new 65 inch wide screen high definition television with satellite hookup and full Surround Sound.''

• JASON ISAACS (''The Patriot'') ''I'm thankful they didn't lynch me in England when 'The Patriot' came out.''

• BILLY DEE WILLIAMS (''The Ladies Man'') ''I don't really celebrate Thanksgiving. I find it very difficult to celebrate something that disrupted an entire civilization.''

• HEATHER PAIGE KENT (''That's Life'') ''For the Zone diet, because I don't have to cook for my husband.''

Originally posted Nov 22, 2000

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