Word: parkes
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...only be "three apples high," but the cheeky, blue-skinned Smurfs have left a giant footprint on the world since first appearing in a humble comic strip half a century ago. Since then, they have become global cartoon stars: they have appeared in video games and had theme park attractions devoted to them. In total, more than 300 million tiny plastic Smurf figurines have proliferated around the world...
...Coca-Cola and Kellogg's. Candy maker Haribo has sold more than 6.5 billion of its jellied Smurf sweets over the past two decades, while over 10 million Smurf CDs have been sold in the last three years alone. There was also a traveling ice show, a France theme park called Big Bang Schtroumpf (as well as Smurf attractions cropping up in five U.S. and Canadian theme parks), and the smash hit The Smurf Song by Dutch singer Father Abraham reached No. 1 in 16 countries back...
...then I grew five inches one year and six inches the next year and at the end I was large in size. My relationship with the mountains actually started when I was 16. Every year a group used to be taken from Auckland Grammar down to the Tangariro National Park for a skiing holiday. I think we must have had a good honey session that year, because I was able to persuade my father to let me go on this particular trip. We went down to Ruapehu, and I can remember it just as clearly as when it happened...
...intimidating only because of the things you do to yourself. You go on the set, there's Tom Wilkinson about to knock a scene out of the park, you know it's coming, you get intimidated by it, but certainly not by his personality. He's the warmest, kindest, gentlest man I know. Tilda, Tom, Sidney are actors who know exactly what they're going to do. Tony doesn't give them any direction as good directors don't do. Good directors point you in the right direction. If they get off on the wrong direction, you come over...
CONGUILLIO NATIONAL PARK, CHILE...