On Tuesday nights at 9:00pm on channel 10 in Tokyo there's a show that
features actors and actresses doing various tests to determine their level
of "sophistication" as a performer (I forget the name of the show...)

Anyway, one of the guests last night was Keiko Toda, most famous for her
role as Anpan-man.  Even though she's in her 40's, she looks downright
young, especially with her hair in pigtails like that.  Kind of cute, too.
The show also said she was from Nagoya.  She almost reminds me of another
person I know from Nagoya that's around her age...(^_^;;)

Anyway, the tests were to try and tell the difference between:

   The sounds of a $75,000 flute and a normal one.
   The taste of a $2,000 German dessert wine and a $15 bottle.
   The walk of a supermodel and a woman who's never modelled before.
   The taste of a soup made with rare matsutake mushrooms from instant.

She got the flute and the soup right, but missed the wine and the walk.
She claimed that the $2000 wine smelled like a drunken salaryman...(^_^;)
So she ended up as a "Level 2 geinojin"

Joe Petrow
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