When Theory Woman, a snooty academic, tells us she's investigating women in love and the Hollywood film, she's not talking about the D.H. Lawrence adaptation. Her subject is the lesbian sub-text, those deflected love affairs agitating the surface of films like All About Eve, The Haunting and The Great Lie. Rearranging the narratives of these classic films, Theory Woman (a.k.a Kaucyila Brooke) reveals the "unconscious logic" driving submerged gender dramas. Lesbianism lurks just below the plot-line, dressed in its own subtle sexual iconography. These "disturbances," we are told, are a plot in themselves-a plot by the ruling ideology to purge the pent-up desires of a sub-culture. This sounds so academic and Dry Kisses Only is anything but dry. A vampish vaudeville, the tape combines comedic skits, genre ruptures, and pedagogical barb(erism)s. Numerous modes of presentation are given their due flogging by the tape's creators (Brooke and Jane Cottis) as they conduct "Lesbian on the Street" interviews, indulge in a bloodthirsty exchange as lusty vampires, and stoop to a parody of a gossip columnist. Most compelling is the intrusion of a counter-narrative in All About Eve, by which our Ms. Brooke replaces Eve's story with that of a lesbian who lost her lover during WWII. Cheeky, Dry Kisses Only never stops wagging its tongue at the dominant narrative. Jane Cottis' This is not not a very Blank Tape, Dear...is a serio-comic work about the social taboos surrounding lesbianism and how they muddle the strained relationship between a mother and daughter. --Steve Seid