A better box
August 18, 2006

Leather and grass, anyone?

Paramount’s delivering a new DVD edition of Grease on Sept. 19 (prebook Aug. 8) wrapped in—what else?—a black leather jacket. The Grease Rockin’ Rydell Edition, priced at $19.99, is adorned in what the studio billed as a T-Bird leather jacket. The original greasers’ insignia is even on the back of the jacket, and the Grease logo is stitched into the front. Of course, the DVD also offers plenty of new special features, but who needs them when you have a T-Birds leather jacket?

Speaking of dead

Meanwhile, HBO is going, well, six feet under for a new box set of its acclaimed funeral series. On Oct. 31 (prebook Sept. 26), all five seasons of the Emmy Award-winning Six Feet Under will be issued in a 24-disc collection packaged within a burial plot, complete with a faux earth box and a grass lid. Along with the originally released single-season supplements, this new set, priced at $279.99, also boasts “obituaries” of the cast members and two soundtracks.

HBO also has announced the four-disc The Sopranos: Season Six, Part 1, which will arrive on Nov. 7 (prebook Oct. 3; $99.98) with four commentary tracks, including the first ever by Mrs. Soprano herself, Edie Falco. But there’s no special packaging. What, they couldn’t fit four discs in a pan of baked ziti?

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