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- Walter Cunningham, what are you doing ...
- Complete details at 10 p.m.
- Released yesterday on DVD: "The Trouble With Romance"
- Released yesterday on DVD: "Afghan Star"
- Gov. Arnold on immigration
- Released today on DVD: "The Yes Men Fix the World"
- To be released tomorrow on DVD: "Sherlock Holmes"
- To be released Tuesday on DVD: "I Sell the Dead"
- To be released Tuesday on DVD: "An Education"
- To be released Tuesday on DVD: "The Baader Meinhof...
- To be released Tuesday on DVD: "Alvin and the Chip...
- Movie Notes
- Random Thoughts
- Another Oscar for Nicholson
- Released yesterday on DVD: "Seraphine"
- Released yesterday on DVD: "The Black Balloon"
- Released yesterday on DVD: "Red Cliff"
- Released yesterday on DVD: "Brothers"
- Released yesterday on DVD: "Fantastic Mr. Fox"
- Released yesterday on DVD: "The Men Who Stare at G...
- Tea Party shows its true colors: Part 2
- Once again, Texas Republicans prove they hate thei...
- Released today on DVD: "The Blind Side"
- Good night, Liz
- Michael Moore's letter to Republicans
- Tea Party shows its true colors
- America finally catches up to the rest of the civi...
- Good Night, Fess
- The rest of this trashy story
- Rep. Jeb Hensarling is a liar
- I find this more frightening than funny
- To be released tomorrow on DVD: "The Twilight Saga...
- Released this week on DVD: "Gogol Bordello Non-Stop"
- Released this week on DVD: "Wonderful World"
- Released Tuesday on DVD: "Brief Interviews With Hi...
- Released Tuesday on DVD: "Bandslam"
- SI likes Kansas
- Released Tuesday on DVD: "Astro Boy"
- Released Tuesday on DVD: "Did You Hear About the M...
- Released Tuesday on DVD: "Armored"
- Released Tuesday on DVD: "Broken Embraces"
- Poking Pauken
- Utah leads the way in Web sites
- Released today on DVD: "The Princess and the Frog"
- One way to celebrate Earth Day -- buy "Avatar"
- Pity the poor Texas public school student
- Released today on DVD: "Ninja Assassin"
- Released Tuesday on DVD: "The Wedding Song"
- Someone needs to muzzle Glenn Beck
- Released Tuesday on DVD: "Fix"
- Released Tuesday on DVD: "Gigante"
- My choices to co-host next year's Oscar telecast
- Released Tuesday on DVD: "The Stoning of Soraya M."
- Released Tuesday on DVD: "Paris"
- Right Message, Wrong Messenger
- Texas Monthly nominated for 4 ASME awards
- Why we need the keen insight of the basketball ana...
- Released yesterday on DVD: "Old Dogs"
- Released yesterday on DVD: "Planet 51"
- Quiznos' signature a forgery
- Released yesterday on DVD: "Capitalism: A Love Story"
- Released yesterday on DVD: "Boondock Saints II: Al...
- The Shamefully Neglected Angel
- Released today on DVD: "Precious: Based on the Nov...
- Released today on DVD: "Up in the Air"
- Adios, toll road
- Day after Oscar thoughts
- Released Tuesday on DVD: "We Live in Public"
- Oscar predictions
- This has nothing to do with garbage or alleys, but...
- Released Tuesday on DVD: "The Beaches of Agnes"
- Released Tuesday on DVD: "Gentlemen Broncos"
- Released Tuesday on DVD: "The Private Lives of Pip...
- Released Tuesday on DVD: "Ponyo"
- Released today on DVD: "Where the Wild Things Are"
- To be released tomorrow on DVD: "2012"
- Skeet shooting -- the Army Way
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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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