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- Is the Justice Department Sirius about this monopo...
- 'Struck' highlights strong AFI opening weekend
- "That'll do, Pres. That'll do."
- Widmark too often taken for granted
- Runway traffic signals
- Dallas ISD bond program
- Worst movie of all time
- Pacman Jones and the Dallas Cowboys
- The new News
- Guns don't kill people? Sure. Fine, Whatever.
- When are you coming home, John Hughes
- "Married Life" works, 'Miss Pettigrew' doesn't
- Don't drink or call while driving
- Better slow down, pudnah!
- "Atonement" and other recent DVD releases
- A speech for the ages
- "No Country for Old Men" and other recent DVD rele...
- Shake Russell channels John Vandiver
- The wild, the innocent, the Brisbane shuffle
- A startling statistic
- Highway 61 Revisited
- This place is really going to the dogs (or maybe not)
- Quote of the Day
- Chalk it up to the traditionalist in me
- Some news for the fans of the Harry Potter films
- What a long, strange trip it's been
- Where have all the flowers gone
- "My Kid Could Paint That" and other recent DVD rel...
- Still the idealist after all these years
- The Mavs are better, but ...
- Texas politics is to real politics as Texas Hold '...
- Boleyn, Bonneville and big, big mammals
- Random thoughts while watching the Mavs Sunday aft...
- "Michael Clayton" and other recent DVD releases
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About Me
- Pete Oppel
- I have scratched together a living, in one way or another, as a writer for more than 60 years now. I was a free-lance writer during the early stages of the Vietnam War. I was the Southwest Division Overnight News Editor for United Press International back when UPI was a legitimate news gathering organization. Following that, I went to the Dallas Morning News where I became the first person to write about rock 'n' roll on a daily basis for a Texas metropolitan newspaper. I later became the News' entertainment editor. Following some stints with a couple of prominent PR firms, I had the extraordinary good fortune to team with two communications legends, Ken Fairchild and Lisa LeMaster, as part of one kick-ass media consulting/crisis communications team. That was followed by stints as a department head with the City of Dallas (and its public information officer); the Dallas Northeast Chamber of Commerce where I had the good fortune to meet and work alongside some of this city's business and political titans; and editorial director for QuestCorp Media until that company went out of business. Now officially retired, concentrating on this blog.
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