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All of this appears as easy as breathing for Culkin, who is chatty and clever and charming — gifts that were put to good use during his Emmy-winning run on the HBO series “Succession,” which concluded last spring.

Jie Zhang, a marketing professor at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, told The Associated Press he expects shoppers to “indulge themselves a bit more” this year with self-care gifts.

Happy reading, and remember: Books make the best gifts!

Danes impressed everyone with her preternatural gifts as an actor, to the extent that “we were all so afraid of her when we did the show,” Herskovitz said.

His “noblesse oblige” attitude — today we’d regard it as a cultural genocide — believed that the white man’s civilization, its language and culture, were gifts to help persecuted Native Americans assimilate and empower themselves, at the cost of wiping out their own cultures altogether.