Tiny Blue Tykes

The Northside Library in Kenosha, Wisconsin held it’s third annual sidewalk chalk contest last Saturday 29th Aug, 2009 and surprisingly smurfs were a feature. The theme of this year’s contest was “Animals in Literature”.

The Hill family’s love of smurfs were their inspiration according to 6 yr old Lacy, “It’s our favorite thing to do,” she said. “This is our first time drawing the Smurfs, and we love the Smurfs.” Lacy, along with brother and her father, Scott, entered the competition in the group category. Their colourful piece consisted of a smurf village complete with Papa smurf and a few of his followers.

In the end the family weren’t amongst the place getters. The group category was won by Monique Rosete and Laura Mylar, both 20 of Kenosha for their whimsical reproduction of the Chesire Cat depicted in “Alice in Wonderland.”

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Well it looks like it’s bad news. The smurf movie has been put on the backburner until US summer 2011 according to Cinema Blend.com. Apparently Sony is considering July 2011 as there will be less competition. Probably not a bad move on their part.

I must say this little quip from Cinema Blend, speaking about the competition factor, made me smile: “That, of course, is likely to change, but regardless, it was a smart move on Sony’s part to keep the film out of the December 17th free-for-all. Blue clashes with red and green anyway.”

Blue clashes with red and green…..classic

Smurf ya later,

Linda

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Well I would’ve thought it impossible but apparently you can turn yourself blue. A 58 yr old man, Paul Karason, used a silver compound to treat a bad case of dermatitis over 10 years ago. The result was a Papa Smurf lookalike.

Mr Karason has been self medicating and making his own preparations of the Colloidal silver; which is a suspension of silver in a liquid, usually distilled water. It was used thousands of years ago for its antibacterial properties but been replaced by penicillin in modern times. It was banned by the FDA in 1999 as it causes argyria.

“I’m in a place right now where it’s very difficult for me to make my own, and my resources are limited and it’s very expensive” he told the host of the NBC’s Today Show.

He also said: ‘[My skin] has lightened up, it is not major but it is lightening up. I am actually going to try green.’

Painting yourself blue seems a much better, not to mention safer, option to me.

Well I must say this is a very interesting little find. By the looks of it it’s possibly a poster for the upcoming 3D CG animated smurf movie I blogged about recently. You can read that blog HERE.

According to Ryan Parsons’ recent story in  CanMag,  this could very well be a scan of the poster.

“Though early in production, our long-time scooper “Wesley – The Dutch Guy” has sent over what looks to be a scan of a sample teaser poster for the film.”

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Well we all know there’s phobias for everything under the sun; spiders, change, death, heights to name a few. But seriously, a fear of smurfs? Though, to Natalie Portman’s credit,  she does say it was Gargamel that scared the ka-smurfs out of her.

In a recent interview by her Brothers co-star, Jake Gyllenhaal, she laughingly admitted her fear.

“PORTMAN: [laughs] I remember as a kid being really scared of the Smurfs.

GYLLENHAAL: The Smurfs?

PORTMAN: Because that bad guy, Gargamel, was so terrifying. I was scared of a lot of cartoons. I’m kind of wussy like that.

GYLLENHAAL: That’s interesting because you seem so fearless.

PORTMAN: Really?

GYLLENHAAL: Yeah. Looking at all these things that you’ve done and contributed to the world so far, I would have thought that the evil wizard Gargamel would’ve been something you could have very easily stepped over.

PORTMAN: Thank you for saying that, but I’m far from fearless. I’m afraid of everything. But maybe when you’re afraid of everything, it sort of seems like you’re scared of nothing.”

Source: Interview Magazine (c) 2009

Picture: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Natalie_Portman.jpg

It kind of makes you wonder what other stars are afraid of.

Smurf ya later,

Linda.

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