Force is with Canadian funnyman

I am going to immediately buy a copy of 365 TV-Free Activities You Can Do with Your Child.
The DVD player will be on sale on eBay before the day is out. There can be no alternative.
If you ever needed any evidence of the damage a TV and VCR can do to a child's developing brain you only need to consider the tragic case of Charles Ross and his One-Man Star Wars Trilogy .
Ross, who this week brings his one man show to the Cremorne Theatre is Brisbane, admits to have seen the original Star Wars at least 400 times - and it shows.
He has every little mannerism, every voice, every attitude of the characters exactly right.
Clearly he didn't get out much. It seems that a large percentage of the audience also spent a large slice of their youth watching Star Wars and its sequels too.
They were getting right into it. And why not. Ross is a funny, funny man.
He has taken six hours of film and condensed it into one hour and then delivers it without props or costuming - and the true believers still love him for it.
What is more amazing is that even those with a passing interest in the trilogy can still enjoy the show and laugh along with most of it.
It's a formula that has been phenomenally successful, has seen Ross travel the world and has spawned a second show based on The Lord of the Rings series.
For something that looks a bit like a school boy leaping around performing to entertain his friends, Ross has created a highly successful and doubtless lucrative franchise.
May be I won't buy the book and throw away the DVD player yet. May be I'll just encourage my Hairspray-obsessed child to watch it a few hundred more times.