Glory fades, or so Max Fischer once said, but we'd wager Rushmore feels as fresh and as funny as it did more than a decade ago. It was the last picture show Wes Anderson shot in Texas before he abandoned – yes, abandoned! – us for New York, but at least we'll always have it as a lasting monument. And now the Texas Film Hall of Fame is making it official, by inducting Rushmore into its hallowed (entirely metaphorical) Hall at this year's awards ceremony on March 12. Luke "These are O.R. scrubs" Wilson will be on hand to accept. For more info about the Texas Film Hall of Fame Awards, go here.

KLRU’s Docubloggers had a short but comprehensive primer on the film incentives issue on tonight’s show, in a segment titled "Is There a Future for the Texas Film Industry?" (We're going with a cautious – but hopeful – yes.) The segment's a good gear up for the upcoming Lobby Day on March 4 – that's when concerned citizens can lobby the legislature to pass the Moving Image Incentive bills. Get more information at the Texas Motion Picture Alliance’s website here and watch the Docubloggers piece embedded below. Or you can check out the Docubloggers site for the show as well as a web extra interview with Austin Film Casting’s Dan Eggleston here.

Filmmaker Magazine has a Q&A up on their site with filmmaker and former Austinite Tommy Pallotta, who, among other things, produced A Scanner Darkly and Waking Life. Pallotta is world-premiering a new doc, American Prince, at SXSW 09, but the bulk of the interview, interestingly, is actually about his decision to jump ship from social networking sites. "Recently I got rid of my Myspace, Facebook, and Linked In accounts because I think that being able to control information about yourself will be the new commodity of the future." Read the whole interview here.

There's a skittering fear amongst charity campaigns and non-profits: Between the recession and post-election burn-out, will contributions and volunteers dry up? For a while, it looked like this year's Burlesque for Peace might be a victim of that exhaustion after founder Audrey Maker found herself otherwise indisposed. Fortunately, former Gamecock Media CEO Mike Wilson and his wife Melissa high-kicked into the breach to organize the Valentine's Day pacifist tease-a-thon (raising funds this year for Peace One Day.) The event drew its roster from the deep ranks of the Austin burlesque scene, including the scandalous Jigglewatts, Austin's own real-life comic book pin-up girl Ruby Rocket, and Best of Austin winner Cardinal Cyn, amongst a plethora of others. So how did Wilson go from game publisher to the world of tease? "Audrey put out the word that it wasn't going to happen because life had got in the way," Wilson explained. Maker was involved with Texans for Obama, ran last October's Burlesque the Vote registration drive, and then organized the All Y'all's Inaugural Ball in January, "She had started such a wonderful tradition. I've been to all the shows and sponsored some of them, so I went no, no, no, we can't not have it just because Audrey is tired."

What happens when two Austin festival juggernauts collide? It might look something like the Fantastic Fest at Midnight slate playing at SXSW 2009. The six films will screen at the Alamo South Lamar (you know what time), kicking off with the world premiere of the rabidly anticipated Ong Bak 2 (don’t be fooled: it’s actually a prequel). The whole slate and descriptions after the jump:

The title of the Lincoln Center's New Directors/New Films prestigious annual series is perhaps misleading. New to them, maybe: We've already known about Bob Byington for years. His new film, Harmony and Me, which was shot locally and stars Bishop Allen frontman Justin Rice, was announced yesterday as part of this year's slate (an honor, we presume, which runs a very close second to winning the Austin Chronicle Short Story Contest, which Bob did back in 2005.) The Museum of Modern Art Film Society's New Directors/New Films 2009 series runs March 25 through April 5.

A writer certainly flexes different muscles when working on a novel versus script, so it makes sense that he'd have to tap different social skills to navigate the shark-infested waters of NY's publishing houses and L.A.'s movie biz. Three Austin writers will have something to say about that on Tuesday, Feb. 17, at a panel titled "Hollywood vs. New York: Three Writers' Perspectives," which is jointly presented by the LBJ Future Forum and the Texas Book Festival. Dishing on the panel will be screenwriter/novelists Stephen Harrigan (The Gates of the Alamo), Owen Egerton (Marshall Hollenzer Is Driving), and Shauna Cross (who adapted her own YA novel, Derby Girl into the film script Whip It! for Drew Barrymore). Sarah Bird moderates. The panel is open and free to the public, but registration is required. For more info on how to RSVP, go here.

Local art collective Austin Video Bee will celebrate the release of its second collection of thematically linked shorts, titled "2," on Feb. 19 at the Carousel Lounge (1110 E. 52nd St.) from 7:30pm to midnight. For this go-round, Bee members were asked to team up with a guest artist to make a video "loosely dealing with the theme of binaries, pairs, duplicates, twins or any other understanding of the number 2." The 12 videos kick off at 8:30pm; musical guest Cari Music goes on at 10:30pm. Check out AVB's blog here for more info. Stumped over what the heck AVB is? Check out this Chronicle profile from March '08.

How many Coraline's can one book spawn? At least one more than Henry Selick's stop-motion version currently dazzling critics and audiences alike. Word is out that a musical, off-Broadway version of Neil Gaiman's button-eyed book, created by, among others, snarky heartacher Stephin Merritt of The Magnetic Fields, is well underway. From the site Film in Focus: "The Coraline musical has its roots in the relationship between Gaiman and Merritt, who first met over a decade ago. Merritt, the brilliant and prolific pop musician who is the mastermind behind the Magnetic Fields as well as a number of other cult bands, was introduced to Gaiman by mutual friend Chris Ewen, Merritt’s bandmate in the Future Bible Heroes, and from there a friendship grew. They shared a mutual admiration of each other's work, and Gaiman and Merritt began to look for opportunities to collaborate in the future." Color us intrigued and purchasing plane fare to NYC.