And Paul Wells As Obi-Wan

      From Warren Kinsella's blog, this curious tale (again, quoted here for lack of permalinks at WK's site):

I just left CBC, and I cannot believe what I just did. Of all of the shameless stunts in which I participated, that was the most shameless. Hands down.

Mark Ross, a producer at CBC's election show Spinoff, called me and asked me to do this weekly political analyst kind of thing. Sure, said I, because I know Mark and trust him (sort of).

Fine. But Mark and my assistant Jo had an idea: in a play on the "Prince of Darkness" book marketing persona shtick, Mark asked me if I would do the start of the show in Darth Vader get-up. Ex-squeeze me? Darth Vader? Are you guys crazy?

Okay. Sure, I said, after consulting with my children, ages two to eight. I'll do anything once.

Keith Boag saw me walk in to CBC's gargantuan Front Street complex. I told him what they had asked me to do. Said he: "And you AGREED?"

Um, er, yes.

Anyway, you get to see Warren's ritual self-immolation on CBC television tonight at 8 p.m. on Newsworld.

And, no, I did not say: "DAVID HERLE! I AM YOUR FA-A-A-THER!"

I can't wait until next week when Andrew Coyne is dressed up in Princess Leia's bikini. *shudder* Hugh Segal, of course, would be Jab... no, I won't say that, I won't say that at all....