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Viola Davis has only about eight minutes of screen time in the movie "Doubt," but her performance in that eight minutes might be dynamic enough to win her an Oscar for best supporting actress.
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- Let the spinning wheel spin, or another reason to ...
- There's no such thing as clean coal
- Another two-newspaper city bites the dust
- First he takes Manhattan, then Grand Prairie
- It's simply great mate waiting on the levee
- The high cost of killing
- The shot heard round the NBA world
- Plastic shopping bags revisited
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- Indy's Joaquin is funnier than Stiller's
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- I yam what I yam
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- Advocate blows it big time
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- Perry the hypocrite
- DVDs downward spiral
- Austen meets Arnold
- Oscar Predictions: Foreign Language Film
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- Pelham 123 to be taken again
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- A DVD release to anticipate
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- The Mavericks at the break
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- A trashy campaign in District 13
- Oscar Predictions: Actress
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- See all five best picture nominees in one sitting
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- The anti-"Reader" argument
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- Oscar Predictions: Film Editing
- The Oscar for the best performance by an actor eve...
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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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