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- Now available on DVD: "Babies"
- My Top 25 College Football, Basketball teams
- Wassup, Robocop
- The Cowboys' future: Garrett and Mallett
- Stay safe, enjoy the day and remember to give thanks
- ESPN covers Heat like Woods
- My Top 10 NBA, NFL Teams
- Currently available on DVD: "Ondine"
- Why I think "Speech" will beat "Network" for best ...
- The poor state of the News' movie blog
- My Top 25 College Football, Basketball teams
- The billionaires are now in charge
- Here's why Texas must not opt out of Medicaid
- Darkness on the edge of a Saturday morning
- The worst of the Beatles
- A British Lincoln
- "Baby wants technicolor cinemascope, baby gets tec...
- Currently available on DVD: "The Secret in Their E...
- Currently available on DVD: "Afterschool"
- Currently available on DVD: "Looking for Eric"
- Oh-no: A "Wizard of Oz" remake
- What I want for Christmas ....
- What if "The Social Network" had different directors
- Gatsby returns
- My Top 10 NBA, NFL Teams
- GOP presidential hopefuls missing Hair
- My Top 25 College Football Teams
- Currently available on DVD: "Casino Jack and the U...
- Currently available in theaters: "Unstoppable"
- The need for deficit reduction
- Currently available on DVD: "The Exploding Girl"
- My Top 10 NBA, NFL Teams
- Now available on DVD: "Solitary Man"
- Now available on DVD: "That Evening Sun"
- My Top 25 College Football Teams
- My November Oscar Predictions
- Whatever you say, Jerry
- Same song, new verse
- Another Baptist hoax
- Good night, Jill
- Currently available on DVD: "Harry Brown"
- Good Night Ed
- California's green pledge
- Tuesday's Election: Looking ahead
- Currently available on DVD: "Red Riding" trilogy
- The Election: What it means and what's next
- My Top 10 NFL Teams
- A short epitaph on the Texas Rangers season
- A message for those planning on voting tomorrow
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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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