Show And Tell

From: [email protected] (DCOLDMAN)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies.erotica
Subject: REVIEW-Show and Tell
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 97 03:13:27

Show And Tell

Vivid Video. Starring Kobe Tai, Julie Rage, Stephanie Swift, Krista Maze,
Sindee Cox, Gina Rome, Lexy, Byron Long, T.T. Boy, Claudio, Tommy Gunn.

Running time: 1:53 Rating: 2.5 out of 5.
      Kobe Tai (Bj,E,F), Gina Rome (Bj,F), Claudio
      Julie Rage (Bj,F,A), Byron Long
      Krista Maze (E,Fi,M), Sindee Cox (E,Fi,M)
      Stephanie Swift, T.T. Boy (condom)
      Lexy (E,F,Bj), Tommy Gunn
      Kobe Tai (E,F,Bj,A), Alex Sanders

   The video opens with Kobe (pre-marriage-to-Mark-Davis, probably) getting
her makeup and getting dressed and answering some shockingly frank
questions, such as why she was late (HIV Test), what's her best position
for orgasm (cowgirl, though she prefers doggie), does she like big dicks,
what the difference between being a prostitute and being a porn star, and
why are all her pubic hairs gone (someone made her do it for a movie), all
porn movie no-no's. In a way, though, the most shocking thing is the
opening view of her without her makeup. Kobe Tai(wan; Japanese and Chinese
words for someone of Japanese and Chinese ancestry) still looks attractive,
but much more Asian and normal and less Amerasian. She looks... normal, not
like the made-up California girl we've see in the handful of released
movies so far. It's not very long, but it's definitely insight, and it
makes you feel good about her as a whole.

   The first scene has her watching Gina and Claudio turn each other on
before she gets into it. For those of you who don't know, Claudio is an
older stud with a mass of chest hair that's turning silver and a bald,
close-cropped head. 

   Gina goes down on him, all the while looking at Kobe while Claudio,
standing, apparently tries not to fall down. Then Claudio goes over to get
another standing suck from a seated Kobe, before Gina heats things up by
going down on a reclining Kobe. Next thing we see is her astride a seated
Claudio, and his uncut phallus, which looks okay-sized until then, looks
absolutely massive in her tight little quim, and she looks wonderfully
slight against the barrel-chested Claudio as she squirms to several
orgasms.

   Then he bends over Gina and does the same for her, before going back to
fuck Kobe missionary while Gina lies under her and holds her. He switches
to Gina, then the two kneel in front of him while he gets his now
semi-flaccid cock to spew love juice. Small-to-medium-sized orgasms for the
women in this scene. Ah, well. At least it had promise. And Kobe.

   Next we see a very L.A. bleached-blond-aerobics-dance-club-and-boob-job-looking Julie Rage
reclining on a rock and explaining about her love of S&M. In real life, I'd
probably be as turned on as annoyed at her obvious attempt to play on my
masculinity, but on film she's just hot. It isn't long into this before
Byron Long shows up.

   No such insights for the men, though. They're naked in two shakes, and
I'll say that when the ultra-blonde meets the darkest, must heavily-hung
guy they could find, it does make an exciting contrast. She gets on top of
him and rides him and when some of her cream leaks out, it shows up very
well on his skin. Then they go for some missionary, then the anal option
with her lying on her stomach. He can't get very much in, but it does
suffice for government work.

   The next scene has two intros, one after the other. First we get Krista
Maze, who used to be a secretary at Hustler. There's some interesting info
about her putting a personal ad in the paper for her first lesbian
experience, then we get Sindee Cox on the stairs. She talks a little about
squirting, does a little walk, and the two women retire to the island of
Lesbos.

   Not the main island, though. This is one of the most desultory lesbian
scenes I've seen in a while. Krista frigs Sindee, Sindee eats out Krista.
Then the women retire to a bathroom (why?) so they can sit on the counter
and watch each other masturbate with vibrators (why? WHY?). Where's my fast
forward button?

   Stop at Stephanie Swift reclining by a pool, hiding behind some
white-rimmed cheaters. She explains how she got into the business. More
personal stuff.

   Then she and T.T. Boy get friendly on a small rock cliff by the side of
a lake. She does down on him, and a condomized T.T. gets his pocket rocket
into her pretty quick. Things heat up as he gets his hands on her face and
throat (intensity is always good). She rides him, some standing doggie, and
then a pop shot to the face. Better than the next couple, anyway.

   They are Lexy and Tommy Gunn. Now, I don't know if it's just my reaction
to the stereotype of the older, tattooed long-haired guy in jeans with
nothing to say with the younger, bleached blonde girl, also with nothing to
say, but I found them to be totally uninteresting. No spark.

   Anyway, she talks some about how most guys, except her boyfriend, can't
make her come. Then she talks about getting a boob job to be big in the
business. Well, despite an on-camera plea for viewers to write in from Paul
Thomas, who conducts all of the interviews, I just couldn't be moved to
care. This is not the Alex Dane controversy (DON'T DO IT, ALEX!). Just...
whatever. Unless the woman get possessed by the spirit of Missy or Anna
Malle, she won't ever be a draw for me. She's just wrong for the business.
Just my opinion, though.

   Cut to a small room. They get on the bed (we get to see his
leopard-spotted thong underwear. What a surprise). Some foreplay, he eats
and fingers her, she goes down on him, she rides him. Then some missionary,
sex by the window, doggie, then some missionary on the dresser, before a
pop shot to the pubes. I'm sure it was fine for THEM, but run-of-the-mill
is too kind a word.

   The last scene is with the well-spoken Kobe again, as she explains her
history with, and views on, anal sex. A promising start if there ever was
one.

   Then to someone's kitchen, where she finger her ass to prepare to be an
"anal retriever" (no, NOT a new Rosebud flick), as she jokingly puts it,
for Alex Sanders. Then he eats her standing up and climbs on the tabletop
to pound her to an asthmatic orgasm. Then another.

   After that, she sucks him standing up and he does a little mouthfucking,
before doing her doggie. She prepares her ass with a vibrator while Alex
watches her - a mistake, since it showcases the wasted look around his
eyes. But that doesn't last too long before he gets it in her ass standing
up doggie. Lots of heavy over-the-shoulder kissing before another
screeching orgasm, then Alex does a standing pop shot into the kneeling
Kobe's mouth. A pleasant way to spend 15 or so minutes, I must admit.

   Also, I don't know what kind of chemistry they have, but I'd have to
become a politician and take up lying full time if I said I wasn't jealous.
It was a nice way to prepare for the upcoming flood of Kobe's movies I've
been reading about for the last few months, and to learn more about some of
the actors, but I'm done with appetizers. Food, please.

   On a final note, the copy I had was taped on LP speed, a speed you don't
much see any more, and for good reason. Right smack in the middle in tape
time between SP and EP, the quality of the recording is only
infinitesimally better than EP, it looks like crap when you go into cue
mode, and the sound and video kept on going up and down, up and down. If
anyone at all connected with Vivid sees this, would you please ask your
distributor to cut that shit out?

   You don't want to spend all that time and money and effort on quality at
the start, and have it look like you're working with John T. Bone's
distributor at the end.

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