The Latest on DVD: Desperate Living

This week's new DVD releases:

Featured Titles:

• Desperate Housewives: The Complete Third Season- Highlights include a gun-toting Laurie Metcalf and Dixie Carter as a murderous mommie dearest. Also available in a Spanish version.
• A Special Day- While Mussolini meets Hitler, Sophia Loren bonds with her gay neighbor Marcello Mastroianni (in an Oscar nominated performance).
• Bosom Buddies - The Second Season- Tom Hanks and Peter Scolari are Kip and Henry, a.ka. Buffy and Hildegard, in this cross-dressing sitcom favorite. Also available, along with the first season, in a complete series box set.
• Stranger Than Paradise- Jim Jarmusch’s influential indie gets the Criterion treatment in this two-discer.

What Else is New:

• Georgia Rule- Jane Fonda, Felicity Huffman and the infamous Lindsay Lohan star in this inter-generational dramedy.
• The Wind That Shakes the Barley- Cillian Murphy stars as an Irish freedom fighter.
• Night on Earth- Another Jim Jarmusch classic on the Criterion label, starring Gena Rowlands, Winona Ryder and Rosie Perez.

From the Vaults:

• Alibi- This early Best Picture nominee stars Chester Morris as a prohibition-era gangster accused of killing a policeman.
• Be Yourself!- Fanny Brice stars as a nightclub singer who helps her boxer beau.
• The Lottery Bride- Jeanette MacDonald is caught between two brothers, each vying for her love, in this musical romance.
• Movie Songs Live- TCM's Robert Osbourne hosts a look at your favorite movie music memories, including songs from Grease, Saturday Night Fever and Dirty Dancing.

TV on DVD:

• 30 Rock: Season 1- Tina Fey, Alec Baldwin and Jane Krakowski star in this Emmy-nominated comedic look behind the scenes of a TV show. Also available in two separate volumes.
• The Office: Season 3- Steve Carell stars in another Emmy-nominated, workplace-set comedy.
• Prison Break: Season 2- Hotties Wentworth Miller and Dominic Purcell are cons on the run in this dramatic thriller.
• Nip/Tuck - The Complete Fourth Season- More hotties: Julian McMahon and Dylan Walsh get down and dirty as Miami's best plastic surgeons. Also available in HD-DVD and Blu-ray.
• Dirty Jobs: Collection 1- And the hotness never stops: hunky Mike Rowe hosts this always entertaining look at the worst jobs in the world.
• I Dream of Jeannie - The Fourth Season- Sorry, Larry Hagman and Bill Daily (ew), but the hotness stops there.
• Original Television Christmas Classics Sing-A-Long - And finally, get your Christmas spirit started early with this collection of holiday TV tunes such as my personal faves, "Holly Jolly Christmas" and "Put One Foot in Front of the Other".

Click on the individual links to purchase the DVDs at Amazon.com.