TV & Video - Jan. 4, 1990

Beauty and the Buff: Two children got an eyeful of explicit sex when a videotape labeled “Cinderella” turned out to be hard-core porn, their parents say. Laura and David J. Burdick Sr. of Shelton, Conn., filed suit in Superior Court this week against New Toys R Us of Paramus, N.J., claiming the mix-up traumatized their children. The Burdicks bought a tape as a Christmas present in 1987, popped it into their VCR and left the room. When they returned later, they found their children, then 7 and 8, glued to “Hollywood Confidential: Diary of a Sex Goddess,” the lawsuit said. “They were just old enough to grasp it but not sort it out,” said Michael Moher, the Burdicks’ attorney. The lawsuit claims Toys R Us was negligent in failing to inspect the tape. A Toys R Us spokeswoman said she could not comment on the lawsuit because the company had not received a copy.