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- Your filthy hair made you a star
- John Cazale's astounding 5 out of 5
- To be released tomorrow on DVD
- Good night, Dennis
- How weird is this?
- Best Movies: 1936
- Christopher Nolan's "Inception"
- TCEQ: "The Agency of Destruction"
- Some thoughts on local news items I stumbled acros...
- You drive? You pay
- Best Movies: 1935
- "We'll probably have a tax increase but I won't li...
- Tired of all that fighting between Democrats and R...
- Gov. Hair calls state's polluted air good for Texas
- The greening of the Apple
- The Best Movies: 1934
- Council postpones (at least) demolition of histori...
- Some thoughts on "Law & Order"
- The Best Movies
- The film that won the top honor at Cannes
- This gives this charming movie an entirely new per...
- To be released tomorrow on DVD
- An idea for selecting judges
- The sorry state of the military/academic complex
- How the city raises your taxes without calling it ...
- To be released tomorrow on DVD
- Robin Hood's prospects don't look merry
- Our U.S. senators embarrass us once again
- Could LaBron become a Maverick?
- Caraway's troubling
- Good night, my dear, dear friend
- What's the most repeated line in the history of mo...
- Good Night, Lena
- To be released tomorrow on DVD
- Texas Theater film festival
- Geographically challenged Times drives 281 where 2...
- A pretender for the baseball crown
- A Cinco de Mayo message to Arizona
- Gov. Hair blames God for BP rig explosion
- Polanski: "I can remain silent no longer"
- To be released tomorrow on DVD
- It's time to let Nowitzki go
- Why would any school want to leave the Big 12 Conf...
- Right Time, Wrong Place
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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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