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When the holiday season hits, do you grab some egg nog and gingerbread mem, then plant yourself in front of the TV to watch your favorite Christmas specials?

The Paley Center wants to know which holiday specials you love the most. They have listed the 30 of the best from the Paley Center collection and want you to vote for your favorite. Cast your vote between November 10 and December 3 for your top five, and share a brief comment about why each program means something special to you.

The top five specials with the most votes will be screened at the Paley Center in New York and Los Angeles between December 10 and 24, 2008.

On the list are the usual suspects like “A Charlie Brown Christmas” and “Frosty the Snowman,” but you can also vote for the cult classic “Star Wars Holiday Special” as well! So get out there and vote!

VOTE HERE: Poll: Pick Your Holiday Cheer

Be sure to check out all our coverage this week of “Star Wars Holiday Special” on Starwars.com!

A good week for those with HD TVs — The Clone Wars animated feature arrives on Blu-Ray, the first Star Wars movie to do so. Meanwhile, on television, The Clone Wars continues with another solid installment, especially those with an unabashed R2-D2 hero worship thing going on, and Seth, Matt and the folks at Stoopid Monkey / Adult Swim bring Star Wars back to Robot Chicken. Here’s a recap of the content on StarWars.com this past week:

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Robot Chicken Strikes Back With More Star Wars
words: Bonnie Burton

The Emperor, Darth Vader, Boba Fett, and the rest of everyone’s favorite Star Wars characters are back with more laughs and plenty of inside hardcore fan details in Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II. The special airs this Sunday, Nov. 16 on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim at 11:30 PM. Starwars.com chats with Robot Chicken creators Seth Green and Matthew Senreich about what fans can expect from the new episode as well as special guest star appearances. Seth also talks about his upcoming directorial debut for his comic book The Freshman.

EXCERPT:

Any notable guest star voices you’d like to mention?

Seth: Carrie Fisher is in the show, which is awesome.

Matt: Billy Dee Williams came in and knocked it out of the park for us.

Seth: We got to record Billy Dee before, so we had kind of a rapport with him. And this was just… I can’t tell you how much I love Billy Dee Williams. He is so awesome. The tracks he gave us are outrageous. We even wrote a whole sketch for the proper season where Billy Dee himself encounters a fan at the supermarket, we loved him so much.

Ahmed Best came in to do Jar Jar. I can’t even express how talented that kid is. Abe Benrubi came back to do our Darth Vader.

Matt: Seth MacFarlane is in it again as the Emperor. Breckin Meyer is Boba Fett again. Seth: Donald Faison makes a great appearance as Gary the Stormtrooper.

Is this the first time you all have worked with Carrie Fisher for Robot Chicken?

Seth: This is the first time she’s done Robot Chicken, but I’ve worked with her before on Austin Powers and we’ve met a bunch over the years. She was great! She was really game and very fun, and totally engaged in the material.

Matt: She said if George Lucas could do it, she could do it.

Full interview here:
Robot Chicken Strikes Back With More Star Wars (Starwars.com)

Star Wars fan fiction is fairly easy to to find online, but fan fiction written by celebrities is even rarer. Recently, actor and Original Trilogy Star Wars fan Simon Pegg writes his one tale featuring Bail Organa, Shaak Ti, Mon Mothma, Kazdan Paratus, Rahm Kota, Obi-Wan Kenobi and a holo-transmission of Yoda, among others chat about Anakin’s new role as Darth Vader and what to do with those twins.

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(Photo by Laura Mäkeläinen)

Is this Yoda in animal form or a three week-old newborn Sphynx kitten? Owner and photographer Laura Mäkeläinen from Finland, Europe says: “Her ears are not completelely up yet, so she looks like Yoda. Some of Sphynx babies look like Yoda that age.”

Learn more about Sphynx cats here.