Joe Pace
Favorite Fictional Characters, #31: Lt. Col. Frank Slade
Scent of a Woman is about an hour too long. Other than that, it's a tremendous film. Even Chris O'Donnell is tolerable in his bemused...
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Joe Pace
Jan 30, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #30: Alex P. Keaton
This won't be the last Michael J. Fox character to appear on this list, but it deserves to be the first. Family Ties was a largely...
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Joe Pace
Jan 29, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #29: The Old Man With The Ladder
One of my absolute favorite children's books, both as a boy myself and as a parent reading to my own kids, is Tikki Tikki Tembo. It's...
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Joe Pace
Jan 28, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #28: Dr. Elliot Reid
Maybe I have a thing for lady doctors. After all, I thought Sherry Stringfield's Dr. Lewis on ER was pretty hot stuff back in the day....
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Joe Pace
Jan 27, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #27: Anger
Pixar does excellent work. Last summer's entry, Inside Out, was no exception. Though not a terribly original premise (I kept thinking of...
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Joe Pace
Jan 26, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #26: Lt. Daniel Kaffee
It's become easy in recent years to dismiss Tom Cruise, to reduce him to the punchline of a Scientology joke, or a couch-jumping sketch....
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Joe Pace
Jan 25, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #25: Emmett Fitz-Hume
In need of comedy today, so we turn to Chevy Chase in his late prime. Chase was one of the heavy hitter graduates of SNL's original...
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Joe Pace
Jan 24, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #24: Matt Saracen
With a mildly important football game on later today, this seems like a good time to talk about Friday Night Lights. A few years back...
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Joe Pace
Jan 23, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #23: Rey
It's always an unexpected pleasure when Hollywood's mucking around with your nostalgia produces something worthwhile. Too often, the...
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Joe Pace
Jan 22, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #22: Phileas Fogg
Along with H.G. Wells, Jules Verne is rightfully considered one of the founding fathers of science fiction. My favorite work of his,...
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Joe Pace
Jan 21, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #21: Dor
Piers Anthony is a strange duck. He's an enormously prolific fantasy/sci-fi engine, having cranked out well over a hundred books over a...
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Joe Pace
Jan 20, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #20: Tyrion Lannister
Back in 2001 or so, Al Pace and Colin Woods insisted that I read a thick fantasy tome called A Game of Thrones. I wasn't really looking...
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