Actually, make that the other screen. It's not the cable news network, but its online cousin that is teaming with Facebook, the popular social networking site, to glean FB users' reactions to the event (via status reports) and offer them in real time on CNN.com during the actual inauguration ceremony on Jan. 20, according to a MediaWeek.com report. Since the inauguration is happening during the workweek, the enormous interest in the event is likely to keep a lot of workers distracted from their normal activities as they try to follow the historic event online and through other media sources. CNN.com wants to capitalize on this activity by luring Facebook users and driving viewers to their site in the process. CNN.com will stream the event live, including a "mini-Facebook" window in the corner of their site. Facebook users can update their status, remark on what they're seeing, and have their status reports show up on CNN.com. It would be even cooler if CNN would show the Facebook status updates on their cable network. But who knows? Speaking it is the first step in making something come to life.

The HBO folks have pumped up the name of their inaugural special. It's now called: WE ARE ONE: THE OBAMA: INAUGURAL CELEBRATION AT THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL It airs Sunday, Jan. 18 at 6pm on HBO. Unlike years past, several other cable networks are bringing their cameras to the inauguration: Nickelodean is bringing cub reporters to the scene as is MTV and other typically entertainment-centric sights. Online, CBS will steam the actual inauguration live with Katie Couric and the CBS team on hand to offer comments and whatnot during the event. Let's hope they keep the chatter down to a minimum. There's nothing worse than someone telling you everything you're seeing, when you're looking right at it.

Okay, yeah, I know it's been a week since part one of my Top Ten Redux, but I've been gnawing on a mouthful of new DVD releases and wondering if they merit inclusion here. They don't, although one not-so-new DVD box set does: Sony's Ray Harryhausen Collection. It Came From Beneath the Sea, Earth Vs. the Flying Saucers, and 20 Million Miles to Earth, all three in glorious black and white or – ick – inglorious colorized versions. Plus, 20 million extras, the best of which are new commentaries from Harryhausen, effects artists/filmmakers Dennis Muren, Phil Tippett, and others (including, wouldn't you know it, Tim Burton. Nice piece on Earth Vs. the Flying Saucers' blacklisted screenwriter Bernard Gordon. Saucers = commies, see? Very scary, in a Red Menace kinda way. For my money, it's altogether the best box set of late '08. And the marketing genii at Sony even saw fit to make this nifty/cheesy flash animation game to promote it. Gee whiz, guys, that's just swell. Back on-screen (if not yet in Austin) and without further ado, here's the part two of my Top Ten Redux.

As the big day draws near, more information about programming on or around the big day comes forth. Here are some more updates: FoxNews and MSNBC will stream the Obama Inauguration live on their websites, while CNN.com will use three streams to accommodate their tag teaming with FaceBook to gather and share viewer impressions, in real time, during the inauguration. Some where in the flurry, I read that ABC.com is supposed to post Inaugural speeches from years past (yawn), but a quick tour around their site didn’t find any promises of that happening anytime soon. But who knows—that could change by the time you read this.

I haven't had a television set for two years, so I haven't been able to keep up with all the primetime whositwhatsit. However, a week ago, I got a hand-me-down set for free. Since then I have become a fan of House, the sarcastic doctor show that is refreshingly more cynical and (perhaps) realistic than its other scrub-wearing predecessors.

But, last night, House got really real for me, spicing up the episode with a little lesbian action. And I met Thirteen, a doctor on House's team who, after a (Huntington's) diagnosis with less than 10 years to live, has taken on a lifestyle of club drug use and random one-nighters with hot lesbian lovers.

When you've helmed one of the biggest movies of the year, everything after is probably a comedown. But at least Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke has something new to look forward to – induction into the Texas Film Hall of Fame! The UT graduate and McAllen native will be joined by film and TV legends Powers Boothe (Red Dawn) and Larry Hagman (Dallas) in the TFHoF's class of 2009. The ceremony typically takes place on the Friday night the SXSW Film Festival kicks off, but the Austin Film Society announced that this year's shindig will take place on Thursday, March 12 – which means no more painful choosing between the Hall of Fame's stars and open bars and SXSW's opening night films. Best of every world, I tell ya.

Local filmmaker Marcy Garriott sends word that her film Inside the Circle will begin airing on MTV this weekend. The locally produced film about the grassroots hip-hop movement in Texas was a fan favorite at SXSW and other film festivals. Screenings begin Sunday, Jan. 11 at 8am and 6pm, with additional screenings on Jan. 12, 14, and 15. Check local listings for more dates and times.

To begin with, Marley is dead, and top ten lists are insane, or, at the very least, they can drive you insane. It's a sweet kind of madness, however, blood kin to that of Bram Stoker's insectivorous Renfield. Locked away in a small, dark room, sustaining himself on madhouse flies and in thrall to the black-light flickerings of his master, Renfield is the very model of a modern minor film critic at year's end. "He's coming," this pasty-faced fanatic gibbers to anyone within earshot. "The Master is coming!" Which, frankly, sounds way too close to what I and my fellow critical counterparts have been writing lately: "It's coming! The best movie of ... ever! For god's sake, man, you've simply got to see it!" Or, in the case of, say, Baz Luhrman's Australia, "Unclean! Unclean! Beware! Steer clear!" Frankly, I much prefer Brian Trenchard-Smith's Australia: Still, we are similar in our derangements, Renfield and I. We inhabit the dark and we worship the shadows that play across the walls. True, he devours bugs while I prefer to snack on edamame, and my dreams-to-nightmares ratio benefits from a superior audio/video system and precious few rats to speak of, but the metaphor remains apt. Mad about the cinema is still mad. Call me crazy. Like all art and most worthwhile experiences, writing about film is an innately subjective endeavor: one person's Death Race 2000 is another, lesser person's Death Race. And no critic's top ten list is ever truly complete. Ten is a fine figure with which to tally digits, dimes, and dames, but movies? Not so good. Even the worst year has twice that many overlooked, under-marketed, or unreleased gems that simply beg to be seen, and believed. Hence this addendum list. Ten extremely worthy films (in one case a book) that didn't make it onto my official Austin Chronicle year end canon. Why not? Various reasons: some only screened at Fantastic Fest, a couple didn't play at all and went straight to DVD, or they simply haven't been released. Nevertheless, each and every one blew my eyes out the back of my head, or made me cheer, or had somebody cheering at the fact my eyes were exploding out the back of my head (David Cronenberg, I suspect). They're all cinematic triumphs in their own unique ways, and they deserve to be seen. Preferably in the dark, and nowhere near Carfax Abbey, unless, you know, you're mad too...

It's only the second day of the year and 2009 is already looking better than '08. On January 1, 2009, the MLB Network began airing on Time Warner Cable Ch. 423 and DirecTV Ch. 213 – available at no extra charge to TWC digital-cable subscribers, unlike the NFL Network which is only available by subscription through DirecTV. I tuned in a couple hours ago and haven't changed the channel since. Lou Gehrig's courageous speech (baseball's Gettysburg Address), Roberto Clemente's tragic flight, Jackie Robinson's heroic debut as the first African-American player in the league, and Cal Ripken's epic consecutive-games-played streak are just a few of the stories I've seen today on the MLB Network. Happy New Year, baseball fans!