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- Julianne Moore as Sarah Palin in “Game Change”: No...
- Available on DVD: “Mesrine: Public Enemy #1"
- The 10 most useless college degrees
- They’re from across the ocean so what could they k...
- Want to know how to grow the local economy? First,...
- Oscars not moving up, at least not next year
- Available on DVD: “Made in Dagenham”
- Life’s simple pleasures
- Republican who said Demos cater to pot-smoking gay...
- Todd Phillips way overrates his “Hangover”
- Republicans fiddle while Texas burns
- 10 worst Irish accents in movie history
- Let’s put this “Where was Obama born?” crap behind...
- Ayn shrugged
- And I thought things were bad with the Texas Legis...
- One Love
- What would Jesus cut?
- Available on DVD: “Fair Game”
- Gun rights group compares itself to Holocaust victims
- MLB considering diluting its regular season even more
- Dumb doc becomes East Texas hero
- Available on DVD: “Cool It”
- Nice job, D-Wayne
- Which Chicago baseball team was the first to "thro...
- Available on DVD: “Waste Land”
- Available on DVD: “Kites”
- Remembering a gypsy songman
- Film to claim Onassis financed RFK assassination
- Is this the end of Batman?
- Cuban getting out of the movie biz?
- Rumblings from Roger
- Available on DVD: “Four Lions”
- I now have something in common with Nicolas Cage
- Who is Ricardo Sanchez and why are all those Democ...
- DART may tie rates to where riders live’
- Bachman: “God is homophobic”
- Memo to ESPN: Bring ‘em back alive!
- Available on DVD: “A Film Unfinished”
- Southwest Airlines Exposed!
- Another damning report on fracking
- What do you mean “we,” white man?
- Available on DVD: “The Father of My Children”
- Proof that those Tea Party jerks don't know what t...
- End of the soaps
- Obama's budget speech: Not perfect, but better tha...
- Now for some good news about guns on college campuses
- Shale oil drilling steals from school children
- Proof that Texas’ priorities way out of whack
- Available on DVD: “Waiting for ‘Superman’”
- Bridge over troubled financing
- Available on DVD: “Mesrine: Killer Instinct”
- My Top 10 NBA Teams
- Available on DVD: “Genius Within: The Inner Life o...
- Available on DVD: “It’s Kind of a Funny Story”
- Roger Ebert on Sidney Lumet
- Goodnight Sidney
- Available on DVD: “Get Low”
- Grampires
- Available on DVD: “Fish Tank”
- For your listening and viewing pleasure
- The resurrection of Ann-Margaret
- The 101 Best Screenplays
- Dear candidate Kunkle: We are not overtaxed and un...
- The election bombshell
- The Best of Woody Allen
- Little things that have been on my mind of late
- Available on DVD: “Tamara Drewe”
- “Tamara Drewe” trailer
- Available on DVD: “Still Walking”
- “Still Walking” trailer
- Available on DVD: “Middle Men”
- “Middle Men” trailer
- My Top 10 NBA teams
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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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