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OPINION | PHILIP MARTIN: Retiring thoughts
Someone asked me the other day if I had plans to retire.
Philip Martin
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Subscriber ExclusiveONBOOKS | OPINION: Maybe I’ve been unfairly judging baseball novelist Tunis
There is a book I'm hunting -- "Buddy and the Old Pro" by John R. Tunis, originally published in 1955.
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Subscriber ExclusivePOPNOTES | OPINION: Great Movies essays return to past reviews and updates them
I'm planning on occasionally turning this space over to essays about Great Movies, for the same reasons that Ebert found time to write his biweekly series.
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | PHILIP MARTIN: Can’t stop, won’t stop
SHREVEPORT -- My mother is 87 years old.
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Subscriber ExclusivePINION | PHILIP MARTIN: So long, Joe
Back in 2020, I said newly elected President Joe Biden should do two things. First, announce he was a caretaker president who would not seek a second term.
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Subscriber ExclusiveFIVE QUESTIONS | OPINION: Five questions with impresario/front man Danny Grace
Rock performers are never merely musicians. They are to a greater or lesser extent also actors playing characters they have invented. Rock audiences do not com…
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Subscriber ExclusivePOPNOTES | OPINION: ‘Presumed Innocent’ gets second season so no cliffhanger here
"We do a little justice, rather than none at all."
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | PHILIP MARTIN: Where are you, Mrs. Robinson?
Last week I screened Mike Nichols' 1967 film "The Graduate" for my LifeQuest of Arkansas class.
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Subscriber ExclusiveOPINION | PHILIP MARTIN: Playing the margins
I am a casual tennis fan. I know the big names who win major tournaments, but don't spend much time watching matches. I haven't paid much attention to the spor…
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Subscriber ExclusiveCRITICAL MASS | OPINION: James Baldwin at 100
If love will not swing wide the gates, no other power will or can.
