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- My Top 25 College Football Teams
- An election letter from Michael Moore
- Who should vote Tuesday
- Currently available on DVD: "The Girl Who Played W...
- What a director adds to a movie
- A view tidbits on upcoming movie sequels
- Little Leppert
- An interesting piece of pre-World Series baseball ...
- Currently available on DVD: "Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg"
- Currently playing in theaters: "The Social Network"
- Romo's injury not to blame
- Whatever happened to Robert Hall's
- I guess it's never too late to make a sequel
- Hey Guv: What are you so proud of now
- My Top 25 College Football Teams
- Kiera as Diana?
- The Contender
- Watching the Rangers win the pennant while thinkin...
- A new low in campaign advertising
- SI and the Mavs
- Watch out for this film with the ungainly title
- Now this would be worth a trip to New York
- Ever wondered what it feels like to parachute into...
- More of that lying Stefani Carter
- Channel 5's new weatherman
- All those Bill White campaign signs
- That lying Stefani Carter
- The joke's on Jean-Jacques
- Climate change denial
- My Top 25 College Football Teams
- And we'll root, root, root for the home team
- The early Oscar buzz
- Mr. Lee
- Want to know exactly how gawd-awful this NFL seaso...
- College football season: Let's call the whole thin...
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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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