Any time a tape is pierced together by an editor named Speedo Mishkit has, at least for no other reason, some curiosity value.

But when you see some big league packaging attached to an R-rated product, the thirst of curiosity becomes unquenchable. Case in point being two of the latest entries to the T&A sweepstakes. The format is nicely setup. Models Angela Parker (a real cutie) and Crystal Starr (kind of like the poor man's Rhonda Jo Petty) get the obligatory "interview" from Gent magazine's Ted Wilson, a Corbin Bernsen-type with a Sakrete hairdo.

Wilson asks the girls such provocative questions like, what was your greatest sexual experience and would you mind taking your dress off for us? The girls oblige in many different and ingratiating ways which establishes the noblesse oblige for the rest of the tape, and the reason we're buying it to begin with, the strip element.

Parker's tape, of the two, seems to have been choreographed with a little more afore-thought. She parades around in her bikini and other skivvies in different locations to give us a taste of monumental things to come. Whereas Starr's tape reflects the common malady of today's video production – too much improvisational theater. And if you've seen glamour tapes from Great Britain, you'll get an eerie feeling of déjà vu with the Starr tape. The negligee. The shower stall. The soap. Put them all together, and I suppose it spells creativity.

There seem to be more and more product coming out specifically shot for the R-rated market. These tapes are fine entrees, and with a little honing of style and dare we say, cleverness in setting up the striptease format, we definitely have something to look forward to in adult viewing.

The tapes may be purchased for $14.95 each plus $3 postage and handling from: Big Top Video, PO Box 126, College Point, NY, 11356.