I’ve been watching the latest episodes of the Basketball drama BUZZER BEAT, and I have been just delirious with crushing love and affection for actress Kitagawa Keiko [北川 景子], proving once and for all that my initial attraction to the cute and quirky girl playing zany clairvoyant Hasegawa Momoko in fave drama MOP GIRL was NO FLUKE!!!
With my j-drama nights filled with vision of Keiko, I had a big hankering to write up a “Crush of the Day” essay on her, but thought (wrongly) that I’d ALREADY written up about her after watching the above-mentioned MOP GIRL. But then I realized the first post WASN’T a Crush of the Day” post more than a general raving about the MOP GIRL show itself, so an official blog entry on Keiko, a REAL “Crush of The Day”, was in high order!
Fans of Keiko know that the actress hasn’t been in all that many dramas, so when I heard she was going to be in a new show with Yamashita "Yamapi" Tomohisa and Aibu Saki, I couldn’t WAIT to get my hands on it!!! I was excited at the prospect of seeing Keiko in a new drama though I did wonder if I would like her character as much as I loved her Hasegawa character, who seemed so full of energetic personality!
Well, it seems I had no reason to worry, for her character Shirakawa Riko; the frustrated violin virtuoso of BUZZER BEAT was just as charming, loveable and GOOFY as Momoko ever was! With the same grimacing, guffawing and mugging for the camera whenever she was tired or frustrated, you could easily believe Riko WAS Momoko!!!
Along with Shihori Kanjiya’s character Ebina Mai, (easily the best personality she’s done since neurotic Mei in Love Shuffle), these two genki actresses join forces to become this energetic and dizzy duo that tickles you with their funny banter while at the same time warming your heart with their support and closeness to each other. Every scene they are in is lively and puts a smile of your face, they are so infectiously peppy!
It also doesn’t hurt that these girls are extremely easy on the eyes- Keiko-chan ALWAYS looks just fantastic with WHATEVER outfits she happens to be wearing whether they be smart dresses, pretty blouses or suits…and MAN does she ever rock those skin-tight Capri pants! She gives a whole new meaning when they use the term “The pants look spray painted on” to describe how a girl is dressed…in fact, my heart just about stopped in this one scene where Riko’s straightening out her outfit before auditioning for a violin combo, and her EPIC display of jeans-tugging surely gave new meaning to the term “backfield in motion”!!! I was ENTRALLED!!!
Keiko, Keiko, Keiko…MAN I just love this chick! Fo’ Reals, Yo!!!
Funny thing about Kitagawa Keiko is that though she always plays these friendly and warm characters onscreen, my friend Car informs me that (at least on her guest appearance of Shin Domoto Kyodai, anyway) that “The girl has ZERO personality and just sits there like a stone!” HAHAHAHAHHA! Oh well, I’m not lovin’ her for her life OUTSIDE of the TV screen, and everyone knows that when I say I’m in love with an actress, it’s ALWAYS because of what comes across in the drama they’re in! I guess my “Crush of the Day” should be Riko rather than Keiko!
Spent a pleasant afternoon ripping my Hikaru Nishida 8cm singles into MP3s. When I first got my Ipod, the Nishida Hikaru CDs were among the first CDs to get the MP3 treatment, but I didn’t get around to digging out the singles until now. I’d put it off for as long as I ccould, but there were a few singles (like fave song C’mon C’mon C’mon, et al) that didn’t appear on any of her albums proper, and I really needed to get those onto my player! Not only that, but one of the great things about those old Pony Canyon singles was the fact that most of them were BACKED by songs that weren’t featured on any of her albums either, and some of them were pretty darn awesome!
One thing that struck me as I was taking them out of their cases and ripping/scanning them was just how BEAUTIFUL some of the covers were! Hikaru was an idol of the highest degree, of course, and the photographers always made the very most of each shoot, producing some of the prettiest covers ever! Here are scans of just a few of my faves.
Besides the covers, some of the CD singles had cute little bonuses like cards and (in one strange instance) an unusual “Hikaru All- Access Pass”(!) What in the world was this supposed to give me aceess TO?! Ahahahahaa! Some cd singles even seemed to be given the “deluxe” treatment, and in particular, the CD single for Hikaru’s single “Tokimeite” had this elaborate fold out cover with pretty pictures of Hikaru throughout, packaging that made one wonder if Pony Canyon was making any money on the sale of these singles after spending so much on the presentation!
When I got into Hikaru Nishada (around 19996), I was lucky enough to get all her albums (at that point she had just released the awesome “2-4”) 90% of her concert videos, and about 80% of her singles, as well! If memory serves, I think that by the time I discovered the Used J-Pop CD store Otokichi Preium, I only needed to get two or three singles (and one concert) to complete my Hikaru Nishida collection!
In 1994, Pony Canyon released a CD collection called “The Very Best Of Hikaru”, which featured many of the elusive B-sides like Koi Wa Shiroi T-Shirt and Truth, but asinle CD just wasn’t enough space to cover them all, not to mention all the singles and b-sides that came out after 1994! So tracking down the actual singles seems to be the only way! Besides, when the CD packaging and artwork is so nice, it really makes it worth the effort!
Here's a small sampling of some of the great B-sides Hikaru's released over the years!
Hikaru ‘s last album release was the sweet “Love For All Seasons”, and her last single was “Sorairo”, way back in 2000, almost ten years now! She left the biz for a bit to get married and raise her family and though we’re extremely happy for her, we’re still waiting for her to stop by again with some new tunes! In the meantime, you can follow Hikaru’s goings-on at her blog here!
This year’s FNS Kayousai was really a treat for those like me who were really getting into J-pop music in the mid-to-late nineties! With Performances by LINDBERG, KOHMI HIROSE and NOKKO (among others!), it really was a nostalgic night, but for me, the highlight just HAS to be the appearance of one of my all-time favorite j-pop artists Chisato Moritaka (whom I’ve gushed about before here, here, here, and here!) in a cool medley with awesome fellow j-artist alumnus Noriyuki Makihara and featuring a whole slew of artists in for the ride!
Starting things off with a bang with Arashi performing Makihara’s “Fuyu Ga Hajimaru yo”, an AWESOME tune that just gets everyone in a genki mood, the boys themselves look like they’re enjoying it to the fullest!
Soon they’re joined onstage by Makihara himself, and he simply jumps in~ keeping up with the cool and swinging vibe! Watching they perform together, it strikes me how similar their styles are~ it looks like Noriyuki’s up there with younger versions of himself!
Once the song is over, Arashi bows out stage left and are replaced by two pretty vocallists in the form of JUJU and Aoyama Thelma, and they get together with Makihara to perform a ballad with the backing help of the girls in SPEED and the Hexagon All-Stars!!
As they sing, the camera pans out into the audience, and over Noriyuki’s shoulders we see petite Chisato Moritaka enjoying the song, and no sooner has the song ended when they start up with a fave Chisato song, the fun WATASHI GA OBASAN NI NATEMO!
It really was a treat to see the gals in SPEED taking turns singing this song, but the funniest part of the performance has to be when Noriyuki harmonizes with Hiroko, and they sing to each other: “When I’m an Old Lady, You’ll be an old man, too!” Then he pats his stomach as he harmonizes with Eriko singing the line “You won’t be so cool…and You’ll have a pot-belly!!” AHAHA!
Then Noriyuki departs to let the girls take over, and SPEED leads the chorus of gals in a rousing rendition of “Junanasai” before the princess herself, Ms. “Lovely Legs” Chisato Moritaka herself comes onstage to close the medley with one of her very best songs “Watarase Bashi”!!! WOW!!! What a Set!!!
Back when I had just finished watching the awesome movie NANA, I found myself just smitten with actress Aoi Miyazaki, and after watching her adorable wide-eyed portrayal of Nana Komatsu, found myself going online to look up information about this wonderful actress and download pictures of her as well. It was a funny thing though, I found that while all the pictures of Miyazaki were nice and pretty, somehow, something about what I found so fascinating about her in NANA seemed to be missing in the actress’ real-life pics. I related this feeling to my friend who agreed, saying that when he saw pictures of Miyazaki in publicity shots, he realized “Some sort of Magical Makeup seemed to have been lifted”. It was only after stepping back did I realize the problem: I was in love with the character Miyazaki was playing, not the actress herself! Though I would come to love Miyazaki as one of my favorite actresses, at the time it wasn’t Miyazaki I was in love with, but Nana Komatsu!
Which brings us to my current crush of the day.
A few months ago I began watching the Toma Ikuta/ Ohno Satoshi drama “Maou”, the dark story of a devilish lawyer named Naruse Ryo (Ohno) who pushes and manipulates a cop named Serizawa Naoto (Ikuta) who had accidentally murdered Ryo’s brother back when they all were children. Naruse has been systematically threatening and killing off all the people who played a part in not only the actual murder, but all who have helped to get Serizawa off the hook with a “Self Defense” plea.
Amidst all this blood and turmoil, Naruse comes across a quiet and shy girl working in a nearby library who becomes friendly with him through pleasant small talk. He later finds she’s been gifted with a sort of second sight and has been working with Serizawa in the case, interpreting the mysterious tarot cards that he has been sending his victims. Despite this obvious conflict of interest, however, her sweetness and innocence strangely touches his heart.
Her name is Sakita Shiori, and she is a sheltered girl- a girl who attends church and works part-time at a library and lives above a friend’s coffee shoppe. Believing Naruse Ryo to be a straight arrow who can help with the case, she finds herself falling for Naruse, and it is her faith and purity that coaxes out his humanity that has been buried deep inside his heart since his brother was murdered all those years ago.
Well, the “sweet and innocent” image will never get old, and I found myself liking Shiori from the very first episode, and as they developed her character and you got to know her a little bit more, I found myself falling for her the same was that Naruse Ryo was! They always had her dressed in these very girly type of blouses, and I just loved how she looked in each scene she was in! As the story advanced and Shiori began actively pursuing Naruse (i.e. asking to be taken to the festival or stopping by with cookies), she started wearing even sunnier and prettier clothes, and MAN by the time Naruse fell for her, I knew EXACTLY what he was going through because I was there too!
The actress playing Shiori was an equally sweet looking girl by the name of Ryoko Kobayashi [小林涼子], and after watching about five episodes of her playing the shy, naïve psychometre on Maou, deemed her “a real cutie”. Ahahahaha! When relaying this declaration to fellow viewer Car, she agreed that Kobayashi was indeed cute, but added, ‘she sure has some big, guy-sized hands, though!” D’oh! Well, I personally didn’t think so, but big hands or not, she really had gotten to my heart, and I wanted to learn more about her!
So it was at this point that my earlier experience with “Nana” came around again, for, as I began going online looking for pictures of Kobayashi Ryoko, I found the same dilemma I did when looking for those pics of Miyazaki way back when… Something was missing in these pictures of Ryoko-chan!
Why, Kobayashi looked like…a normal girl!
It then hit me that history had happened once again, and I was in love not with Kobayashi Ryoko per se, but her character of Sakita Shiori! I DID find quite a few really nice pictures of Kobayashi, but it seems the girl I love can ONLY be found in the episodes of MAOU!
Ah well, I'm sure the more roles I get to see Ryoko Kobayashi in, the more my admiration will grow, and I’m looking forward to seeing more dramas with this adorable
actress to see what new characters she'll be offering up!
PS…Strangely enough, going online, I found most people referred to Kobayashi Ryoko as “That spooky looking actress with the weird/scary eyes”. Ehhh? A strange label that even Sakita Shiori couldn’t have predicted with all her tarot cards!
Besides discussing the latest drama, she found time to also discuss the allure of Hiroshi Abe, tomatoes, and, in a strange but fun twist on Arashi No Shukudaikun's "Food Tasting" segment, the merits of tuna with Mayonnaise!
There was this general agreement going ‘round in the 80’s that Boaz Davidson’s THE LAST AMERICAN VIRGIN was the most depressing movie of all time, at least in the books I read and people I talked to at the time… I didn’t agree, for me, the most depressing movie was Woody Allen’s PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO. And on the suject of “Most Depressing” awards, It’s time to talk about the j-dorama KONOYO NO HATE (The End of the World) the UBER depressing 1994 drama starring Mikami Hiroshi and Suzuki Honami!
This is without a doubt the most tragic drama I’ve ever seen, and with all the surprise death conclusion/hero-lies-in-coma endings I've seen, that’s saying something!
“But what about Oni No Sumika, that drama where Kyoko Fukada has to work as a practical slave to her relatives?” a friend asked.
“I said Depressing,” I retorted back, “not a load of crap!” You see, the difference was, though both had sad storylines, Oni No Sumika was a terrible drama. Konoyo No Hate, on the other hand, was great. It just had like the biggest downer as its plot!
Attn: Spoilers Below!
Mikami Hiroshi stars as Takemura Shiro, a brilliant world famous pianist who falls hard for cutie Suzuki Honami (and really, who could blame him) as Sunada Maria, and amidst the hurdles of their tumultuous lives, begin courting each other. Eventually them become an item, but soon enough the relationship goes south (as all relationships in any drama are wont to do), and in one of the most disturbing and bizarre actions since Van Gogh , Takemurai decides to prove his everlasting love for Sunada by taking razor sharp shards of a broken bottle and slicing his hands to ribbons! ACKK!!! From there....well, that about says it all, dunnit? Holy Toledo, this one just...affected me!!!
Tonikaku.
Out of this carnage of a drama, however, came probably one of the most poignant, sincere songs ever, the beautiful “Oh My Little Girl” by the late Yutaka Ozaki. Off of the SEVENTEEN’S MAP album, It’s about as basic a song as you can get, but the FEELING this song conveys are oceans!
I remember I loved this song so much after watching the drama, and really wanted to get my hands on the single for “Oh My Little Girl”, but by the time I saw Konoyo No Hate, it had long been out of print! Fortunately, Morningberryz, who was a HUGE fan of Yutaka Ozaki, burned the entire awesome album for me! I was even surprised to find the only other song I knew from Ozaki, a song called “I Love You”, was ALSO on this album! Yatta!
Always a favorite to sing at karaoke, I remember one day at work, me and J-pop buyer Richie were sitting around, and I started singing the opening lines of Oh My Little Girl aloud: “Konnani mo..sawagashi..” Then Richie grinned and chimed in with “Machinamini tatta zumu kimi ga…” then before you knew it, we started belting out the whole song there, laughing our butts off!
Years ago I picked up a couple of J-pop collections for
various Japanese commercials and TV Show Theme songs (called, curiously enough,
TV-CF Songbooks) primarily because it featured songs by Kome Kome Club, a
group that I was just getting into at the time, as well as a few others. As I’d mentioned in an earlier
post, this was the same collection that turned me onto artists like Ruriko
Kuboh and MISATO, with popular tunes that I hadn’t heard before.
But there was this one Country-Western-style song that I loved ‘cause it sounded just plain FUN! Fast-paced and sung in this oriental sing-song style, it was one of those that immediately brings a smile to your face! Though I couldn’t read the japanese kanji at the time, I was to later find out it was a song called “Akai Hana” performed by none other that the precious Miyazawa Rie herself!
My very first exposure to Ms. Miyazawa came from a strange place- Long, long ago when I was still working at a one-hour photolab, someone came in with what I thought was a curious subject: he’d taken photos of a photo book (this was before color copying was easily accessible, I guess), and these pictures were pages a very pretty girl in the nude, sitting in a field of flowers. “This guy must really like this girl to be taking pictures OF the book!” is all I thought at the time.
A few years later Saburo had told me about some shashinshuu he’d asked his parents to get him from Japan, and I was surprised to see that it was none other than that book the guy had copied! I found out her name was Miyazawa Rie, and her nude book SANTA FE (shot by master photographer Kishin Shinoyama) was a notorious hit in Japan because it came in the midst of her clean idol image!
Moving forward a few more years, and I’m now heavily into j-pop and all things Japanese, and it was around this time I picked up those two TV CM compilations. Funny, listening to the “Akai Hana” song, not once did it occur to me that this was the same girl in that photobook. In fact, because of the way the song was sung, my mental image of the singer was more like a seventies type of singer like Asada Miyoko or Agnes Chan!
I got my hands on a copy of the 1993 (or so) Kouhaku, and it was here that I saw Rie Miyazawa for the very first time performing, doing a David Bowie rip-off song called “Game” (based on the Bowie/Lennon/Alomar song “Fame”) sitting scrubbing her back in a tub of soapy suds(!). Though I associated this semi-nude girl singing with the girl in the aforementioned shashinshuu, I still didn’t make the connection to the Country song I’d loved on the CM Compilation.
It was only after one day when I had this nostalgic urge to dig out those old CM compilations did my Miyazawa discovery come to light!
So, I’m sitting there, listening to those tunes on the CD, and when Akai Hana came on, I thought, “Wow, I forgot about this song! This song is SO much FUN! Say, who sings this?” Looking through the booklet, I was properly astounded to find that the singer was none other than Rie Miyazawa herself!!!! WOW!
From then, she was firmly established in my mind, and after a heartwarming appearance on SMAPxSMAP, my love for her only grew! My friend Morningberryz got ahold of two classic albums of hers (Chepop and MU, the former featuring the aforementioned song GAME) and made me copies which I played over and over again that summer! While all the songs were catchy and fun (“I say Hi” is an exceptional fave!), there will never be a song of hers to equal “Akai Hana” for me. That song just gets better and better over the years!
PS: And YES, eventually, I got myself my OWN copy of that famous shashinshuu which was my very inkling of the majesty that IS Miyazawa Rie!!
When you think of Avex Trax artist HITOMI, the first thing that ALWAYS comes to MY mind is the cover for her album “LOVE LIFE”, and those of you who live in Hawaii and have visited Nippon Shoten even once know EXACTLY what I mean! They’ve had that promotional poster hanging on their wall since like forever, and one’s eyes just can’t HELP but gravitate towards it when entering the store, Hitomi is just so damn pretty and sexy here!
But that was a lot later, when she was a lot more well-known. Back in 1995, she wasn't a household name yet, and my first memories of Hitomi was seeing her debut album GO TO THE TOP featured on Tower
Records j-pop rack of new artists, and I have to say the generic looking cover
didn’t leave much of an impression on me at the time.
It wasn’t until a year or so later that I rented a music special that featured the popular videos of the previous year, and I saw a clip of Hitomi running around what looked to be the Australian Outback and singing just the CATCHIEST of songs! Then I heard the totally genki girl sing the lines, “Let’s Go To The Top!”, and I immediately realized, HEY! This song is the title track from that album we used to have at Tower!! MAN, what a catchy song!!! But by then the CD was long gone, and I kicked myself for not picking it up!
A year or so later, I was over at a friend’s house recording various B-sides of ZARD singles, and while perusing his extensive collection, happened to notice that he had a promotional copy of that Hitomi album on his shelf!!
“DUDE!” I excitedly yelled, “You have GOT to make me a copy of that song “Go To The Top! I’ve been curious about it ever since I saw a clip of it on a Music Show, and I’ve never even heard the whole song yet!”
Well, after finishing up that ZARD collection, he threw the Hitomi song onto a new compilation along with other acts like Sakurakko Club and V6, and I couldn’t WAIT to get home and listen to my new stash!
First impressions of the song once I got a chance to sit down and really listen to it was the shock of how much it sounded like a Tetsuya Komuro production. I mean, it WAS a Tetsuya Komuro production, but really, Hitomi sounded like a DEAD RINGER for TRF singer YUKI in this song! Not that that’s a BAD thing- In fact, I really liked trf, but it’s funny how listening in retrospect to Komuro’s songs from trf, globe, Misato and Amuro Namie all have that similar sound!
Tonikaku, the song was as cool as I remembered, with awesome beats and terrific hooks, and the thing that really made the song for me was the way the song ended. Each chorus ened with a repeating line of Mayowazuni…Let’s go to the Top.”, but when it came to that last powerful refrain, Hitomi ended it withan upbeat and drawn out, "Mayowazuni-Let’s go to the TOOOOOOOOOOOOOPPPPP!!"! So CUTE!!! Aw, MAN this song kicked butt!
Now, CD burners back then were not like the stuff of today. Funny how each computer seems to come with a drive built right in, but back then, my friend had to drop more than seven hundred dollars for an external burner, and these things were really hit and miss, resulting in many “dud” discs and misfires. As computers got more and more savvy, those CDs we burned got more and more out of date, and eventually my computers just stopped playing them. GASP! So after all these years, I had to make a concentrated effort to find my beloved Hitomi song, and I found a copy of the original 3 inch single from the strangest of places- CD JAPAN!!!
Addendum: Funny thing about that LOVELIFE poster that affected me so much- just a few months ago, hitomi released a sequel CD of sorts with LOVE LIFE 2, featuring the artist once again posing nude for its cover- this time fully pregnant with child! And in celebration of her coming child , she additionally released an accompanying shashinshuu- capturing her soon-to-be motherhood in the buff! (And YES, I ordered that one, in fact, it came in the same shipment as my CoCo DVD Box Set!) Let's Go To The Toooooooooop!
Yes, you read right, the CoCo DVD Box Set is finally here- AND IT IS
BEAUTIFUL! I cannot express how EXCITING it is to hold actual DVD cases
of each of these concerts...after years of temptation to purchase Hong
Kong Bootlegs JUST to have the CoCo concerts on disc, it REALLY is like
a DREAM COME TRUE to have the REAL thing in my possession!
In celebration of this incredible (for us) event, we present to you: (drumroll)
First, the Basics
Top Five Concert Sets:
Budokan: (Haru Milkyway-Hanbun Fushigi)
Budokan : (Shiawase Kamone~Kimi No Uta, Boku No Uta)
Nakano Sunplaza: (News Na Mirai~Kimi No Uta, Boku No Uta)
Forever: Super Medley
Forever : (Hanbun Fushigi~Koisuru Niwatori)
Five Favorite Individual Song Performances:
Deluxe Edition / Equal Romance
Budokan / Yume Dake Miteru
Nakano Sunplaza / News Na Mirai
Natsu ’92 / Naze?
Forever / Koi No Junction
1.The CoCo Concert which I thought Azusa Looked Best in:
Budokan Yellow "Candy Candy" Dress
2. The CoCo Concert which I thought Erika Looked Best in:
Deluxe Edition Cheerleader Outfits
3. The CoCo Concert which I thought Maki Looked Best in:
Natsu ’92 Pink “Champagne” Dresses (During Naze?)
4. The CoCo Concert which I thought Mikiyo Looked Best in:
Forever: "Ikanaide Natsuyasumi”
2. The CoCo Concert which I thought Rieko Looked Best in:
Pick ’em
Top Five Favorite Concert Outfits:
1. Deluxe Edition Cheerleader outfits (During “Equal Romance)
2. Budokan Pink “Stewardess” outfits (During “Otome No Rehearsal”)
3. Metallic Green Dresses (During “Yume Dake Miteru”)
4. Budokan Yellow “Candy Candy” dresses ( Shiawase Kamone)
5. Natsu ’92 Pink “Champagne” Dresses (During Naze?)
6.Those Color-Coded Forever "Vogue" Dresses
Bottom Five Least Favorite Concert Outfits:
1. Deluxe Edition Unicycle Ridin’ Tutus!!! (Yasashisano Hoosoku)
2. Budokan god-awful flower-curtain pajamas (during “Dakara Namida To Yobanaide)
3. Nakano Sunplaza “Cosby Kids” outfits (during Sasayaka Na Yuuwaku)
4. Deluxe Edition Leather Jackets ‘n’ Leather Shorts (Minna Daijyobu)
5. Did I mention the Unicycles?
Concert with the best sound:
Natsu ‘92
Concert with biggest Cicada attendance:
Forever
Most obvious evidence of CoCo’s growth as profession idols:
“Koisuru Niwatori” in Heart to Heart and then five years later in Forever.
Original "Best Friends Forever" Award
Rieko and Azusa, the original BFFS
“Not Looking Where You’re Going” award:
Maki walking into Rieko during “Minna Daijyobu” in Deluxe Edition
“Who’s Zooming Who” Award:
Erika and Maki singing different lines (and realizing it) during Heart To Heart’s “Yume Wa Neumuranai”
Best “Save” Award:
Erika at the end of ‘Shippo No Kimichi” where she realizes she’s about a foot away from where she’s supposed to be, then hopping over to reach Mikiyo’s hand.
Most Irritatingly Intrusive Audience Chanting Award:
During Erika’s Deluxe Edition performance of “Yuki No Nichi wa Dareka No Kotowo”
Dumbass Overzealous Keyboard Playing Award:
That Keyboardist in the back during “Equal Romance” on Deluxe Edition
"Rock Rock Til You Drop" Award:
Rieko after performing Suiheisen De Tsukamaiete/Joke Nimo Naranai Koi in Budokan:
Idiot Fan Award:
That dingaling who threw the that streamer(?) to the stage and hit Rieko on the head during Heart To Heart's MC!
Greatest "Fan Service" Award
Rousing Perf of "Equal Romance" in Deluxe Edition that has never been rivaled!
Probably more to come as I sit down and watch all the DVDs.
These Lists and Awards are my own opinion, your own mileage may vary.
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