Joe Pace
Favorite Fictional Characters, #232: Bobby Boucher
Adam Sandler is a ridiculous, infantile creature whose shtick has grown increasingly unfunny as time has worn on. And yet, early on this...
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Joe Pace
Aug 17, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #231: Paddington Bear
I loved the Paddington books when I was a little boy. Long before Harry Potter, there was the window into the just-a-little-different...
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Joe Pace
Aug 16, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #230: Clym Yeobright
Thomas Hardy's seminal 1878 novel, The Return of the Native, is a story about small towns and expectations, about roles and behaviors...
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Joe Pace
Aug 15, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #228: Waldorf and Statler
"Look at this lunatic! He's lumping both of us into a single post!" "It could be worse. He could have just picked you!" "I don't know...
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Joe Pace
Aug 15, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #229: Eowyn
Eowyn, daughter of Eomund, Shieldmaiden of Rohan, is easily Tolkien's best, most fully-realized female character. Arwen is too...
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Joe Pace
Aug 13, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #227: Jim
Nothing ever happens to Jim, at least, nothing interesting. Jim's Journal by Scott Dikkers (a co-founder of The Onion) has been running...
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Joe Pace
Aug 12, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #226: Ser Jorah Mormont
I am among those annoying souls who read the Game of Thrones books before ever seeing any of the HBO adaptations. My response to most of...
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Joe Pace
Aug 11, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #225: Momma Lift
The night was humid. Most probably recall Anne Ramsey from her performance as Mama Fratelli in The Goonies, but I prefer her as Momma...
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Joe Pace
Aug 10, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #224: Bartleby the Scrivener
Herman Melville wrote Bartleby, The Scrivener: A Short Story of Wall Street in 1853. It is the tale of a nonentity, an office clerk who...
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Joe Pace
Aug 9, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #223: Prince Akeem Joffer
Eddie Murphy was such a huge star in the 1980s. It's hard to remember sometimes these days, when he can't find his rhythm (other than his...
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Joe Pace
Aug 8, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #222: Aahzmandius
The Myth Adventures series, initially written by Robert Aspirin alone and later in collaboration with Jodi Lynn Nye, are the silliest...
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Joe Pace
Aug 7, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #221: Dewey Finn
In 2003, Jack Black was still something of a novelty act that had not yet worn thin, a careening amalgam of Belushi and Shatner that...
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