Legends & Starlets

Nica Noelle is more than halfway home after casting "Legends & Starlets", her surefire apotheosis of the popular older/younger lesbian genre. As with volume two, this initial outing gives the fans a smörgåsbord of quality team-ups to choose from.

I'm a fan of all eight principal players, so for me the video is an embarrassment of riches. Leadoff segment has Nica the director making a cameo almost as herself (same name) playing a speech-writer for star actress Nina Hartley, who's rehearsing her acceptance speech for an upcoming awards ceremony. It's a lifetime achievement award so Nina is also almost playing herself.

Vignette takes a brief "All About Eve" turn as Noelle warns her buddy to beware of her personal assistant Samantha Ryan. Sure enough, Hartley sees Ryan rehearsing the speech herself, clutching an awards' statuette, giving off a sinister vibe. Instead of punishing the girl, Hartley confronts Sam and makes love to her. The fact that they have identical streaked blonde hair styles is a wonderful touch to the hero-worship theme and when Sam indulges in breast worship Nina's erect nipples never looked more inviting.

All-time great Kelly Nichols is back in a real role for a change (good roles were hard for her to find as she grew older) paired with perhaps the most popular young lesbian star at time of filming (2008) Elexis Monroe. Nica does not glamorize Kelly, who gives what amounts to a character performance with Elexis the dom in a quality lesbian scene. Kelly is cast as a former actress now directing, but with something missing in her life - and Elexis is the right gal to provide it in a very naturalistic fashion.

Oddest sequence teams Stephanie Swift with Zoe Britton -both great talents who are currently under-appreciated, IMHO. Storyline has Zoe treating her BFF Steph to a stay at a romantic B&B, where Swift, not so Swift in this incarnation, finally figures out there's a romantic interest there. Lesbian action results in a fire & ice match-up where bosomy Zoe is the dom and Swift is coolly sexy as all get out. Swift still looks so young she belies the "legend" moniker, but certainly her career qualifies her for such casting.

Final vignette has Nica favorite Kylie Ireland paired with Black superstar of the future Misty Stone (here billed as Misty Brown) in a short story with a quite different tone. Misty is grieving for her late husband who was killed in an accident, and feels guilty because she was having a lesbian affair with friend Kylie. Though Ireland asserts: "Maybe now we can be together", Misty is reluctant to trample on hubby's memory, but as her fans know Kylie won't take no for an answer. She induces many realistic orgasms from the young girl, and the sequence is notable for Ireland talking dirty throughout.