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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
- Oscar complaints
- Next year's Oscars and last night's show
- Indy's Joaquin is funnier than Stiller's
- Memo to Viet vets: Get over it
- I yam what I yam
- New movies to be released tomorrow on DVD
- Oscar Picks
- Turn it on, wind it up, blow it out GTO
- Oscar Prediction: Live Action Short Film
- Gov. Perry's Saran Wrap
- Oscar Predictions: Makeup
- Advocate blows it big time
- Oscar Predictions: Animated Short
- Perry the hypocrite
- DVDs downward spiral
- Austen meets Arnold
- Oscar Predictions: Foreign Language Film
- New movies to be released tomorrow on DVD
- Pelham 123 to be taken again
- Oscar Predictions: Art Direction
- A DVD release to anticipate
- Oscar Predictions: Visual Effects
- The Mavericks at the break
- Another sign that the end of the world is at hand
- A trashy campaign in District 13
- Oscar Predictions: Actress
- Oscar Predictions: Original Score
- See all five best picture nominees in one sitting
- Why are our utility rates increasing faster than a...
- The anti-"Reader" argument
- Drought in Texas
- Oscar Predictions: Documentary Feature
- Who would play Judy?
- I don't care what he says, my money's still on Win...
- Oscar Predictions: Film Editing
- The Oscar for the best performance by an actor eve...
- A future of healing
- Oscar smackdown: Penn vs. Rourke
- Whatever happened to Leo Chaney?
- Oscar Predictions: Director
- New movies to be released this week on DVD
- Oscar Predictions: Adapted Screenplay
- Oscar Predictions: Animated Feature
- Oscar Prediction: Best Picture
- Oscar Prediction: Best Supporting Actor
- Eight Minutes to Gold
- Doing the right thing
- New movies to be released this week on DVD
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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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