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- The 10 Best New Films Released on DVD in 2007
- DVD REVIEW: "Eastern Promises"
- Number 1 with a needle
- DVD REVIEW: "The Kingdom"
- DVD REVIEW: "The Heartbreak Kid"
- DVD REVIEW: "The Last Legion"
- DVD REVIEW: "Once"
- DVD REVIEW: "Balls of Fury"
- DVD Review: "Stardust"
- DVD REVIEW: "The Simpsons Movie"
- Actors shave 'Sweeney Todd'
- DVD REVIEW: "Interview"
- Been a long, long, long, long time
- DVD Review: "December Boys"
- Oscar Nomination Scorecard II
- Memo to Mayor Leppert: Give credit when and where ...
- A few thoughts on Nicole Kidman and Diane Keaton
- Wanna get away for a while?
- DVD REVIEW: "Harry Potter and the Order of the Pho...
- Volunteers needed for Cotton Bowl Parade
- Chinese Food On Christmas
- DVD REVIEW: "The Bourne Ultimatum"
- A special musical Project
- Women critics give out awards
- What if Hollywood threw a big party and no one came?
- DVD REVIEW: "The Nanny Diaries"
- There goes the neighborhood
- Golden Globes: It's what they left out that counts
- DVD REVIEW: "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
- The State of Movie Music
- This is almost as much fun as watching the ponies ...
- Why can't we all just get along?
- DVD REVIEW: Arctic Tale
- A menu idea for salmon chanted evening
- "Masterpiece Theater" and other hits
- FILM REVIEW: "Atonement"
- DVD REVIEW: "Superbad"
- DVD REVIEW: "Lady Chatterley"
- Romney's Surrender, Part Deux
- These Time-Management Issues Will Be Easily Resolv...
- Baby Boomers Unite!
- Romney's Surrender
- DVD REVIEW: "The Namesake"
- Why I'm full of beans
- Where has that slow moving outlaw gone
- Don't take this personally, JC
- From the Department of Monumental Cluelessness
- Huckabee on the defensive
- Why we won't see a college football playoff anytim...
- DVD REVIEW: "Waitress"
- Kay Bailey takes on this lady
- Kay Bailey takes on Edna: two out of three falls
- One More Chance to Call the Whole (College Footbal...
- National political news: Could it be the Perry fac...
- News News
- Let's Call the Whole (College Football) Thing Off
- DVD REVIEW: "Mr. Bean's Holiday"
- The Last of the Big Spenders
- Industrial Boulevard Name Change
- Is "American Intelligence" an oxymoron
- Something to wine about
- It's not whether you win or lose, it's if you grad...
- "Juno" could gun down "Gangster"
- I Left My Biodiesel in San Francisco
- Interesting Choice of Words
- Proving Anything Is Possible
- Nobody Asked Me, But ...
- Oscar Nomination Scorecard
- Another Silly Love Song
- Maybe It's Me, But ...
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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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