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- Available on DVD: “Pom Wonderful Presents: The Gre...
- I really hate it when the trailer appears to give ...
- Another piece in the “Les Miz” puzzle
- Obama to go up against GOP presidential debate
- Republicans don’t want to raise taxes on the rich,...
- Ramshaw in The Times
- Gov. Hair signs pledge to make sure government int...
- From the folks about to bring you "Drive" ....
- ... now comes "Drive Wars"
- Disney plans on ruining “The Lion King”
- The future is in the past
- Proposed redistricing map: 5 white districts, 5 Hi...
- Gurus of Gold’s first Oscar predictions
- Mayor Mike’s Committee Appointments
- Let’s play: “Guess Who’s Talking”
- Available on DVD: “Queen to Play”
- Before They Were Famous
- Texas Killing Fields
- A preview of Polanski's latest
- Paying college athletes
- Nancy Pelosi/Newt Gingrich Commercial on Climate C...
- Redistricting success
- This one looks interesting
- Available on DVD “Stake Land”
- Schutze hijacked by trucking interests
- OMG: Austin is back from the dead
- Run, Bourne, run
- Available on DVD: “Cold Weather”
- Line of the week
- Good EVEning
- Leppert: Demand Hair resign
- Ever been attacked by an owl ... in slow motion?
- Available on DVD: “The Music Never Stopped”
- Available on DVD: “My Dog Tulip”
- Available on DVD: “Even the Rain”
- Even the brat is losing in this economy
- I hope Mary Suhm is right and I’m wrong, but …
- Advice to the health conscious: skip the movie pop...
- Available on DVD: “Heartbeats”
- Parsnips: A new weapon to restore our post-industr...
- What do all these quotes have in common?
- What’s wrong with Texas, Part 873,143
- That monkey movie
- I don't know why, but I've always loved this bit
- Available on DVD: “Winter in Wartime”
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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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