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- Released this week on DVD: "The Informant!"
- Released this week on DVD: "Dead Snow"
- Released this week on DVD: "The Damned United"
- Released this week on DVD: "Cirque du Freak: The V...
- Released this week on DVD: 'Sorority Row"
- Released this week on DVD: "Everybody's Fine"
- Released this week on DVD: "Flame & Citron"
- Released this week on DVD: "Bliss"
- Released this week on DVD: "The September Issue"
- Released this week on DVD: "Shall We Kiss?"
- SI on Tiger's apology
- Released this week on DVD: "Breakfast with Scot"
- Released this week on DVD: "Motherhood"
- Council members acting foolishly
- Released this week on DVD: "$9.99"
- Released this week on DVD: "Examined Life"
- Released this week on DVD: "Crude"
- Released this week on DVD: "The Box"
- Released this week on DVD: "The End of the Line"
- Dallas to get wet?
- What if the City of Dallas threw a committee meeti...
- One more 1-1
- Released this week on DVD: "Splinterheads"
- The real hero of Tiger's tail
- Released this week on DVD: "Women in Trouble"
- It takes one to know one
- Another one of the good guys leaves the City of Da...
- Released this week on DVD: "Good Hair"
- Tiger flexes his muscles on TV just because he can...
- Released this week on DVD: "Revanche"
- Underrated singers of a bygone era and a bygone joint
- Cameron's campaign
- Grapevine's Toy Story
- Oscars' new get tough policy -- the proof is in th...
- Global warming vs. global weirding
- Released this week on DVD: "Black Dynamite"
- The NBA free agent class of 2010 may be just "The ...
- Rethinking Peyton Manning's legacy
- Released this week on DVD: "Coco Before Chanel"
- Gov. Hair plays politics with our health
- Released this week on DVD: "Hunger"
- Released this week on DVD: 'Law Abiding Citizen"
- Revenge of Medina
- Valentine's Day
- Park It
- Rebranding Pleasant Grove
- Trade makes Mavs slightly better
- Rick and Kay and Bill and Debra
- Small ideas won't fix our health care crisis or re...
- Released this week on DVD: "Peter and Vandy"
- Released this week on DVD: "Dare"
- Released this week on DVD: "Serious Moonlight"
- Released this week on DVD: "I Hate Valentine's Day"
- Medina's Meltdown
- Meryl the Best
- Released this week on DVD: "The Stepfather"
- Released this week on DVD: "Bronson"
- Released this week on DVD: "Couples Retreat"
- Connelly nails it again
- Tuesday Observations
- Another reason to love Austin
- Released this week on DVD: "The Time Traveler's Wife"
- Released this week on DVD: "A Serious Man"
- Brief notes on the Super Bowl
- Recently released on DVD: "Whiteout"
- Sunday Observations
- This Bruce Jenkins fellow really calls him as he s...
- Temporary rail line to Arlington to be installed f...
- What's Going On With the Hall-of-Fame Voters
- Recently released on DVD: "Ong-Bak 2: The Beginning"
- Recently released on DVD: "Zombieland"
- How the movie with the most first place votes may ...
- World's most boring board game to get even worse
- Recently released on DVD: "I Hope They Serve Beer ...
- Recently released on DVD: "Cold Souls"
- Recently released on DVD: "The House of the Devil"
- Sen. Hutch's problems mount
- No trespassing ... and this time I mean it
- Campbell Brown deja vu
- Recently released on DVD: "St. Trinian's"
- Recently released on DVD: "Saw VI"
- No shocks this year from the Academy
- Recently released on DVD: "Tennessee*
- The village within the village
- Recently released on DVD: "Little Ashes"
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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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