Nicole Bass is to a short leather dress what Vince McMahon is to an evening gown. If you've been weaned on common femme-fodder like the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, you might not get what Bass has to offer on first viewing. You might not even get it on the second or even the third, for Bass is a taste that's acquired over a length of indoctrination.

Gina Rome moves into the neighborhood and Bass proves to be a nightmare worse than property taxes. With a welcome wagon chokehold, Bass slaps Gina around, ties her to the stairway and paddles her butt bloodshot, after which Gina's set free - only to endure more wrestling holds, including the vaunted cross-face chicken wing.

Kyle Phillips should be so lucky. He does, however, rate a Best Actor pre-nomination for this performance.

"Are you as stupid as you fucking look?!" Bass asks him, and begins to prove her point with logic only a sadist could appreciate, and humor only those with a true sense of it could possibly embrace.

After dragging the Amazonian Donita around the house with a white garbage bag covering her head, Bass exhorts Donita to worship her feet, an act that solicits extra combat pay and generous dollops of sympathy on Donita's behalf.