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- SAG Awards: “Help” win no surprise, Dujardin is
- Available on DVD: “Detective Dee and the Mystery o...
- “The Artist” nails it
- "Mother of Mercy! Is this the end of Rico?"
- Available on DVD: “Daddy Longlegs”
- Available on DVD: “Margin Call”
- Available on DVD: “Attack the Block”
- Available on DVD: “Higher Ground”
- Quick reactions to Oscar nominations
- Available on DVD: “Point Blank”
- Memos from Pete
- Available on DVD: “The Guard”
- A shocker: Romney outpolls Hair in Texas
- Director’s destroy Spielberg’s chances for another...
- My final Top 25 college football teams for 2011
- Available on DVD: “The Future”
- Jesus responds to Guv Hair's campaign video
- Nelson to Guv: “Get Back, Loretta”
- Final Oscar Nomination predictions
- Available on DVD: “Tabloid”
- Available on DVD: “Terri”
- The 25 Best Movies Reviewed in This Journal in 2011
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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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