Joe Pace
Favorite Fictional Characters, #262: Curly Washburn
Billy Crystal has been involved in some of the funniest, most durably iconic movies of the last few decades - think When Harry Met Sally...
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Joe Pace
Sep 16, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #261: Dr. Jonathan Chase
In the fall of 1983 I was eight and a half years old, and a TV show featuring a guy who could turn into any animal was just about the...
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Joe Pace
Sep 15, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #260: Wayne Campbell
Some movies are perfect time capsules for the moment in which they came into the world, none more so than Mike Myers' debut and...
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Joe Pace
Sep 14, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #259: Beowulf
I love Beowulf for two reasons. First, it is the story of a truly bad-ass hero, a take-no-prisoners slayer of monsters (and their...
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Joe Pace
Sep 13, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #258: Foghorn Leghorn
I've got a soft spot - I say, I've got a soft spot for ol' Foghorn. He is, at least in his own estimation, a bottomless font of homespun...
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Joe Pace
Sep 12, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #257: Toby Ziegler
If Josiah Bartlet was the West Wing's Lear/Macbeth/Richard, then Tobias Zachary Ziegler was the conscience of the king. Brilliant,...
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Joe Pace
Sep 11, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #256: Fern Arable
Everybody loves Charlotte's Web. Naive, kindhearted Wilbur. Erudite, selfless Charlotte. Templeton, that fat, useful bastard. There's...
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Joe Pace
Sep 10, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #255: Captain America
It took me a long time to warm up to Captain America. As a boy, I considered him a bland, boring relic from a bygone era of pulp comics,...
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Joe Pace
Sep 9, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #254: Stile
I've listed characters from two of Piers Anthony's fantasy/sci-fi series earlier on this list, Xanth and the Incarnations of Immortality....
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Joe Pace
Sep 8, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #253: Stanley Spadowski
Sure, Cosmo Kramer is a comedic icon. But the same year Seinfeld hit the small screen, actor Michael Richards appeared on the big screen...
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Joe Pace
Sep 7, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #252: Montgomery "Scotty" Scott
Today I honor the fiftieth anniversary of the debut episode of the original (and still the best) Star Trek with a tip of the cap to the...
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Joe Pace
Sep 6, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #251: Lisa
So, what would you little maniacs like to discuss first? Weird Science is perhaps the quirkiest entry in the catalogue of 80's-teen film...
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