Movies“Towelhead” is a film that needed to be dusted off before it was unspooled, as it languished on a studio shelf for months. That happened because the studio in question decided to bet most of its chips on blockbusters and put thoughtful indies in the storage vault. But “Towelhead” — a hit at the 2007 Toronto Film Festival — was too interesting to keep there for long. Directed by first-timer Alan Ball, who wrote the screenplay for “American Beauty” and was the brain behind “Six Feet Under,” it tells the story of a young Arab-American girl in the early 1990s coming to grips with her emerging sexuality while under the thumb of her strict Lebanese dad. It makes you wonder what else is in storage. (Warner Independent, opens Friday) TelevisionAre you ready for some football? More specifically, are you ready for some non-Brett Favre Green Bay Packers football? That will be the question hovering over the sofas of sports fans this week when “Monday Night Football” opens the regular NFL season with a match between NFC North division rivals the Minnesota Vikings and the Green Bay Packers. Subplot: Aaron Rodgers, waiting in the wings the past three years, gets his chance on the hot seat as Packers QB, replacing Favre, the Wisconsin object of cheesehead worship. Subplot: The Packers play the Vikings, the team Favre tried unsuccessfully to get traded to after he and the Pack agreed to the divorce. Subplot: You can be reasonably sure that Favre will be watching. Wonder who he’ll root for? (ESPN, Monday, 7 p.m. ET) MusicThere’s an old saying: Those who know, know. Roughly translated, it means those who get it, get it. When it comes to rock/pop music, Little Feat is an insider’s favorite. The band wasn’t the same after its heart and soul, Lowell George, passed away in 1979. But it re-formed a couple of times, and its influence is still felt today. “Join The Band: Little Feat and Friends” is a tribute album dedicated to this seminal assemblage. It features group members plus some very special guests. Some of the highlights include “Something in the Water” with Bob Seger and Brad Paisley; “Fat Man in the Bathtub” with Dave Matthews and Sonny Landreth; and Little Feat’s signature track, “Dixie Chicken” with guitar virtuosos Vince Gill and Sonny Landreth. Great music never gets old. That’s something everybody knows. (429 Records) DVD“What we’ve got here is failure to communicate.” It’s one of those clips you’ll see whenever Hollywood shows a compilation of its most illustrious movie moments.It was spoken in “Cool Hand Luke,” and not by the star, Paul Newman, but rather by character actor extraordinaire, Strother Martin, who as a prison guard whips Newman’s character Luke, a stubborn inmate, and knocks him into a gully. But that’s just one of many great scenes in this 1967 American classic, out this week on DVD in a deluxe edition that includes a new digital transfer of the film from restored audio and visual elements, plus a new making-of documentary and more. There’s another scene in which Luke tries to eat 50 eggs. I don’t think there’s a great line associated with it. Just a burp. (Warner Home Video) BooksRemember the “CBS Evening News” before Katie Couric? There was a fellow, oh … what’s his name? Accomplished, likeable, experienced, straightforward, trustworthy? Oh well. I guess because he isn’t a highly paid household name celebrity journalist, the memory takes longer to operate. While I’m thinking, check out a book I discovered called “Bob Schieffer’s America,” by a network anchor and reporter named Bob Schieffer. He apparently had done a lot of commentaries over the years, and he decided to collect them in a book. The essays are not heavy handed designed to steer you to a point of view, but rather intented to provoke thought on a variety of important topics. It seems this guy Schieffer has been a working journalist for over 45 years and has won six Emmys. Wow. He should be an anchor. (Putnam Adult)