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- Available on DVD “The Tillman Story”
- “The Tillman Story” trailer
- Available on DVD: “Never Let Me Go”
- "Never Let Me Go" Trailer
- Available on DVD: "Night Catches Us"
- "Night Catches Us" Trailer
- Forget about that 100-year flood nonsense
- Another go for 'Les Miz'
- Available on DVD: "Monsters"
- "Monsters" trailer
- Want to know the picture that will win the Oscar n...
- The Carriedaway Tapes
- One more look back, beauty that can't be denied
- Why Mike Rawlings lost my vote for mayor
- Good night Liz
- Allen goes Gogh
- Available on DVD: "Conviction"
- "Conviction" trailer
- Bruce Springsteen with the Dropkick Murphys
- My Top 10 NBA teams
- NCAA tourney is geographically challenged
- Radical idea for an Oscar host
- Currently available on DVD: "Dogtooth"
- "Dogtooth" trailer
- The Dallas City Budget: Why there will be a tax in...
- Currently available on DVD: "Kings of Pastry"
- "Kings of Pastry" trailer
- Looking at the Dallas City Council races
- "127 Hours" starring Wile E. Coyote
- Currently available on DVD: "The Yellow Handkerchief"
- "The Yellow Handkerchief" Trailer
- My Top 25 College Basketball Teams
- My Top 10 NBA teams
- Criteria for reviewing films on this journal
- Currently available on DVD: "Hideaway"
- "Hideaway" Trailer
- What's wrong with today's comedies (Part 2)
- What's wrong with today's comedies
- Currently available on DVD: "Howl"
- "Howl" trailer
- Now available on DVD: "Catfish"
- "Catfish" trailer
- "Red Hill' trailer
- Currently available on DVD: "Red Hill"
- Putting pizzazz back in the Oscars
- My Top 25 College Basketball Teams
- My Top 10 NBA Teams
- 'Jack Goes Boating' Trailer (Review follows)
- Currently available on DVD: "Jack Goes Boating"
- Currently available on DVD: "Buried"
- The President's Speech
- Teas Legislature's latest invasion on women's rights
- Southwest Airlines, hear my plea!
- The Natinsky endorsements: Who's missing
- The kiss you never saw
- Levinson wants to out-stone Oliver
- Currently available on DVD: "Down Terrace"
- Currently available on DVD: "Nowhere Boy"
- My Top 25 College Basketball Teams
- My Top 10 NBA teams
- I was always there for her love
- Here it is in all it's glory
- Chalk one up for the working man
- Good Night Sweet Lady Jane
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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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