Joe Pace
Favorite Fictional Characters, #274: Boss Hogg
The gluttonous and grasping commissioner of Hazzard County and antagonist of the Duke family, Boss Hogg had his pudgy fingers in...
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Joe Pace
Sep 28, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #273: Snowball
George Orwell's Animal Farm is a sophisticated allegorical treatment of the failure of the Soviet experiment, an examination of how noble...
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Joe Pace
Sep 27, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #272: Nick Naylor
Nick Naylor is a lobbyist. For a big corporation. That makes cigarettes. Scum of the earth, right? Sleazy paid influence-peddler. It's a...
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Joe Pace
Sep 26, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #271: Patches O'Houlihan
DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story is a bundle of satire. It announces right in its title that it parodies the predictable sports movie...
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Joe Pace
Sep 25, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #270: Gaston
I've always considered Beauty and the Beast to be the weakest of the Disney Renaissance films, behind Aladdin, The Little Mermaid, and...
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Joe Pace
Sep 24, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #269: Mr. Limpet
As one might expect of a film made in 1964 and starring Don Knotts, The Incredible Mr. Limpet is one of those nostalgic childhood...
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Joe Pace
Sep 23, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #268: Al Bundy
Has there ever been a more pathetic, pitiable creature on television than Al Bundy? The sad-sack, shoe-selling paterfamilias of the...
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Joe Pace
Sep 22, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #267: The Enchantress
Amora, beguiling Asgardian witch, made her debut in 1964 when Thor's adventures were still in their Journey into Mystery infancy. She...
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Joe Pace
Sep 21, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #266: Tod
In 1981, Disney was undergoing some changes that would, less than a decade later, lead to the "Disney Renaissance" as the mouse empire...
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Joe Pace
Sep 20, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #265: Doug Ireland
For Love or Money is a little-known, formulaic rom-com vehicle for Michael J. Fox. Released in 1993, it resides in a career trough...
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Joe Pace
Sep 19, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #264: The Doctor
Star Trek: Voyager premiered while I was in college, and I was very ready to give it a try. Deep Space Nine had arrived during my...
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Joe Pace
Sep 18, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #263: Hester Prynne
As I discussed earlier in this list with Hamlet, Hawthorne's classic protagonist from The Scarlet Letter remains important today because...
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