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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
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- 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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