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- Available for home viewing: “Rough Night” ★½
- My Top 25 College Football Teams (Week 4)
- Available for home viewing: “Snatched” ★★
- Available for home viewing "My Cousin Rachel" ½★
- My Top 25 College Football Teams (Week 3)
- Available for home viewing: "Going in Style"
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- My three favorite Harry Dean Stanton movie scenes
- Available for home viewing: "King Arthur: Legend o...
- My top 25 college football teams
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- Available for home viewing: "Raw"
- This has nothing to do with a hard rock band
- The most recent Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or wi...
- Available for home viewing: "Baywatch"
- Lady Bird
- My Top 15 College Football Teams
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- Available for home viewing: "Ghost in the Shell"
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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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