There's no business like Showbusiness

My first encounter with the business of show was with Dave Prowse. He was the actor inside Darth Vader's costume. He was also the Green Cross Code man.

He came to my school to teach us little ones how to cross the road. But we weren't interested in stopping, looking & listening. We were interested in how he could use the dark side of the force against Luke Skywalker... his own son.

That is the romance of showbusiness. Which reminds me of the famous anecdote about our business. There is a man whose job it is to shovel the elephant shit at the circus. It's a miserable job. 18 hours a day of shovelling pachyderm poo. Someone asks him why he doesn't get a better job.

And he replies, "What... and leave showbusiness"