Joe Pace
Favorite Fictional Characters, #48: Khan Noonien Singh
There's no question that City on the Edge of Forever is the best episode of the original Star Trek series. The top five is open to some...
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Joe Pace
Feb 16, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #47: Inigo Montoya
The Princess Bride is terrific. Let me explain...no, it is too much. Let me sum up: Goldman's book is a brilliant romp that evokes and...
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Joe Pace
Feb 15, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #46: Londo Mollari
I always regarded Babylon 5 as the poor man's Star Trek (specifically, the poor man's Deep Space 9). A few years back, at the urging of...
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Joe Pace
Feb 14, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #45: Thumper
I was never all that impressed or affected by Bambi. His mother's death wasn't a seminal moment for me. But boy, did I dig Thumper. Here...
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Joe Pace
Feb 13, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #44: Odysseus
I always loved that in a time that valued and celebrated men of battle prowess and epic strength, there was an Odysseus (or Ulysses). A...
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Joe Pace
Feb 12, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #43: Sam "Mayday" Malone
There are plenty of reasons Cheers is in the conversation as greatest sitcom of all time. Cliff, Norm, Coach (always better than Woody),...
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Joe Pace
Feb 11, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #42: Danny Saunders
I first read Chaim Potok's The Chosen when it was assigned in early high school. I was struck then by Danny Saunders, a character so...
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Joe Pace
Feb 10, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #41: Frank Underwood
Much has been said comparing House of Cards to the West Wing. That the former is the latter without the moral compass or the naivety,...
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Joe Pace
Feb 9, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #40: Jefferson Smith
I don't think I need to recap the plot of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington here. If you haven't seen it, or if it's been so long that you...
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Joe Pace
Feb 8, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #39: William Riker
I grew up on the original Star Trek series, with endless reruns on Channel 50 in New Hampshire, and with the uneven movies with the Kirk...
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Joe Pace
Feb 7, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #38: Gavin Grey
Frank Deford has long been one of my favorite sportswriters. He brings a dignity and intellect to his work that I admire, with an...
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Joe Pace
Feb 6, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #37: Rachel Green
If you're of a certain vintage, Friends was a seminal program. It aired from when I was 19 to when I was 29, and was appointment...
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