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- My Top 25 College Football Teams
- Available on DVD: “Goodbye First Love”
- Oscar Forecast: The Technical Awards
- Available on DVD: “Damsels in Distress”
- My Top 25 College Football Teams
- Oscar Forecast: The Acting Categories
- Samuel L. Jackson Rules
- Oscar Forecast: The Features
- An historic low for the Big Ten?
- My Top 25 College Football Teams
- Available on DVD: “We Have a Pope”
- Available on DVD: “Where Do We Go Now?”
- "Hitchcock" trailer
- Romney vs. Big Bird
- My Top 25 College Football Teams
- Observer's landfill coverage is nothing but garbage
- Available on DVD: “Ballplayer: Pelotero”
- Available on DVD “Headhunters”
- Lone Ranger trailer
- Off-the-wall baseball playoff predictions
- Moneyball wins
- The Oscar Forecast: Directing, Writing
- My Top 25 College Football 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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