It’s vacation escape season — here’s what Hollywood has on deck

Escapism in the holiday season

Your parents’ holiday movie is NOT “Violent Night”. It’s St. Nick with a kick and John Leguizamo as a finch robbing houses on Christmas Eve. It’s David Harbour’s badass Santa and shoot ’em up villains. Next, Hollyweird will scrape together a stoned Easter Bunny wielding a stun gun.

Leguizamo: “I couldn’t believe how violent and outlandish it was. I say “balls to the wall”? Is that what we need nowadays?”

For zoned viewers who want to climb a pear tree with a juiced partridge, it’s in theaters on Friday.

want more movies Here is “Women Talk”. Frances McDormand bought the book. It’s set in a hayloft, starring Judith Ivey, Rooney Mara and Claire Foy.

McDormand: “We thought we’d have a farm, bring the kids, live in Airstreams and shoot in an actual barn. Came COVID. When we finally reunited, the exhilaration of being together nurtured everyone and bonded us as a whole company.”

Why is? I don’t know, but the thing will be in theaters in time for Christmas Day.

How about some magic? “Asi Wind’s Inner Circle.” A Show You’ve Never Heard Of Which Super Magician David Blaine Chose As His NY Producer Debut. Israeli magician Wind came to Washington Square Park 20 years ago, performed for pocket money, worked with Blaine for 15 years, fooled Penn & Teller and now he’s playing at the Judson Theater in Washington Square Park. It took only 20 years to move 200 meters south.

Neil Patrick Harris, Liev Schreiber, Barry Diller, Diane von Furstenberg, Alan Cumming were all there. so go

Birthdays, hams and trailers

IN the late 1980s, real estate giant Peter Kalikow bought the NY Post when a dance with the FBI temporarily ruled Rupert Murdoch’s property. Thursday is Peter’s 80th birthday. We send love to him and his wife Mary. . . AND in the 1990s, cook Julia Child’s Thanksgiving dinner was made with Virginia ham. . . AND as of now, Trump has grabbed over 87 million tweeters. bidden Under 37 million . . AND Scarlett Johansson was at the new posh restaurant Le Rock at Rockefeller Center.

High fashion is back in style

NO more bashin’ fashion. Shmattas crawl back. Tommy Hilfiger’s tuxedo brother Andrew said: “Athleisure is slow. Inventory doesn’t sell.” . . . Rebecca Moses: “We need to celebrate getting dressed again. This is how we see life.” . . . Dionne Warwick: “People want to see the glamor side of show business. They’re ready to get off, sit next to each other and say “Hello!” ” . . . Miss America Emma Broyles: “I was fashionable at my first Miss America pageant. I learned to walk in heels 10 minutes before the competition. I was 15.” . . . Candace Bushnell: “I wore hot pants for the first time when I was 12 with my mother shopping at Loehmann. Brown velvet. My mother sewed them from Vogue patterns. At school they were like ‘Ooooh.’ ”

So, this hardworking mother’s child was accepted into a university. It costs $60,000, plus books, plus transportation, plus a car, plus clothing, plus off-campus residency. This single mom wants her daughter to get all the things she couldn’t afford herself – and then this mom wants to move in with her daughter.

And it’s NOT just New York, kids, it’s not just New York.