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- Oh, dem prehistoric women
- Beautiful Texas land up for sale - a steal at $54 ...
- Allen's new football stadium
- "King's Speech" moves to favorite role
- My Top 25 College Basketball teams
- My Top 10 NBA Teams
- Currently available on DVD: "Mademoiselle Chambon"
- Currently Available on DVD: "Valhalla Rising"
- The 25 Best Films of 2010: No. 1
- The 25 Best Films of 2010: No. 2
- The 25 Best Films of 2010: No. 3
- The 25 Best Films of 2010: No. 4
- The 25 Best Films of 2010: No. 5
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- The Best Films of 2010: No. 8
- The 25 Best Films of 2010: No. 9
- The 25 Best Films of 2010: No. 10
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- The 25 Best Films of 2010: No.24
- The 25 Best Films of 2010: No. 25
- Slap Happy
- The Great Films: 2008, 2009
- Currently available on DVD: "Cairo Time"
- The Great Films: 2006, 2007
- Currently available on DVD: "Waking Sleeping Beauty"
- The reunion of Shake Russell and Poor David
- Kunkle for Mayor?
- The Cutler Affair
- The Great Films: 2004, 2005
- Texas Tribune: Da Mayor not likely to win Senate n...
- Oscar nominations reaction
- The Great Films: 2002, 2003
- Currently available on DVD: "Everyone Else"
- The Great Films: 2000, 2001
- "The King's Speech" stutters back into the race
- Roll over Beethoven, Bach is No. 1
- My Top 25 College Basketball teams
- My Top 10 NBA teams
- If I could name the Best Picture nominees
- Currently available on DVD: "Exit Through the Gift...
- Why did it take so long for this star to be born?
- The Great Films: 1998, 1999
- Predicting the major Oscar nominations
- The Great Films: 1996, 1997
- Currently available on DVD: "Countdown to Zero"
- Currently available of DVD: "The Disappearance of ...
- Siegel wrongly says Hunt shouldn't run for mayor b...
- The Great Films: 1994, 1995
- Currently available on DVD: "The Boys, The Sherman...
- The Great Films: 1992, 1993
- You could add this one to death and taxes
- The Great Films: 1990, 1991
- Lessons learned from the Golden Globes
- Good night, Susannah
- Republicans are correct about health insurance pre...
- My Top 25 College Basketball teams
- My Top 10 NBA teams
- Super Bowl No. 1
- Here we go again -- another budget gap
- The Great Films: 1988, 1989
- The Great Films: 1986, 1987
- Currently available on DVD: "Jean-Michel Basquiat,...
- The Great Films: 1984, 1985
- Best picture race narrowed to five
- My Top 25 College Football Teams of 2010
- The Great Films: 1982, 1983
- Allison says KBH will run and lose
- The Great Films: 1980, 1981
- Someone whose name really isn't Allen Christy sing...
- Currently available on DVD: "Who is Harry Nilsson ...
- A civilized world weeps
- My Top 25 College Basketball teams
- My Top 10 NBA teams
- Currently available on DVD: "Winnebago Man"
- Whose D-Wayne kidding with this Arthur and Archie ...
- Currently available on DVD: Centurion
- We gotta get out of this place
- The Great Films; 1978, 1979
- Another reason why Plano schools are not all they'...
- The Great Films: 1976, 1977
- Currently available on DVD: "A Mother's Courage: T...
- The motion picture academy is still anti-woman
- The Great Films: 1974, 1975
- GPS got me green again
- The Great Films: 1972, 1973
- Actually, Goodell doesn't get it
- The Great Films: 1970, 1971
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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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An honorable and insightful list, Pete. The Inception fanatics are going to be pissed off at its low ranking. Did you see where the Directors Guild Award went to Tom Hooper for The King's Speech?
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