Fort Worth Star-Telegram: Movies

By ROBERT PHILPOT Of all the major entertainment awards shows — Grammys, Oscars, Tonys and Emmys — the Emmy Awards may be the most byzantine. A CD, movie or play can often stand by itself and be judged in one sitting, but a TV series takes time to grow.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

By ROBERT PHILPOT Warehouse 13, a new show that launches Tuesday, should appeal to fans of Eureka, a summer fixture on the Sci-Fi Channel. Both shows are lighthearted comedy-dramas involving law-enforcement officials reluctantly taking an assignment at remote outposts where weird things happen.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

By ROBERT PHILPOT Warehouse 13, a new show that launches Tuesday, should appeal to fans of Eureka, a summer fixture on the Sci-Fi Channel. Both shows are lighthearted comedy-dramas involving law-enforcement officials reluctantly taking an assignment at remote outposts where weird things happen.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

By MARIO TARRADELL Farrah Fawcett defined celebrity. She easily embodied the old-school definition of that multifaceted word. She was a pop-culture icon who time and again proved that beauty and talent weren’t strange bedfellows.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

By DAVID GERMAIN BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.

CDRegina Spektor: Unswervingly quirky ingenue Spektor delivers what’s sure to be one of 2009’s finest albums with her fifth studio effort, Far, a remarkably cohesive disc that finds the singer/songwriter hitting her stride.Also new: The Mars Volta, Octahedron; Pete Yorn, Back and Fourth; Bjork, Voltaic.DVDWaltz with Bashir: The controversial, Oscar-nominated, animated film about the 1982 war in Lebanon is available on DVD and Blu-ray.Also new:Confessi

By ROBERT PHILPOT To paraphrase an old country song, they’re singing, but not with each other.Abby Fender, who was born in Tyler but moved away as a child, and Matt Boggs, who lives in Richardson, are competing in Can You Duet, a singing competition that has its second-season premiere Saturday night on CMT.They may have Texas connections — Fender’s parents are former Fort Worth residents whose Texas roots run deep — but on the show, they’ll be connected to people from Indiana and California, respectively.

By CHRISTOPHER KELLY On an ordinary morning in New York City, a quartet of mysterious-looking men in sunglasses step onto the downtown-bound No. 6 subway train. The motorman is immediately relieved of his duties.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

BySCOTT VON DOVIAK The original 1974 version of The Taking of Pelham One Two Three is the kind of movie they don’t make anymore — which may seem like a strange thing to say, considering that Tony Scott’s remake, starring Denzel Washington and John Travolta, opens in theaters today.Only in the pre-blockbuster era (which ended with the release of Jaws the following year) could a hangdog character actor like Walter Matthau headline a mainstream thriller populated almost exclusively by lumpy middle-age men.

This week’s question: Ed Asner, the voice of the lead character in Up, has a politician for a nephew (on his wife’s side). Who is his nephew, and what office does he hold?E-mail go@star-telegram.com by noon Monday.Correct entries become eligible for a drawing for Cinemark movie passes and concession coupons.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share