Joe Pace
Favorite Fictional Characters, #305: Count Dracula
Imagine, if you will, a time when a vampire was a dark creature of gothic horror, a mysterious, monstrous apparition of dread, and not...
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Joe Pace
Oct 29, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #304: Thomas "Tug" Benson
Lloyd Bridges was a national treasure. A serious action star in his youth (Sea Hunt!), Bridges passed on the roles of Captain Pike and...
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Joe Pace
Oct 28, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #303: Dr. Henry Jekyll
Robert Louis Stevenson wrote the Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in 1886, at the height of British Victorian cultural repression....
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Joe Pace
Oct 27, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #302: Olenna Tyrell
There's something wonderful about fierce old women. Ancient broads who have put up with all the bullshit in their lives and now, in their...
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Joe Pace
Oct 26, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #301: Damon Killian
The 1987 Arnold Schwarzenegger vehicle The Running Man is pretty cheesy stuff, adapted from the much-better Stephen King source material....
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Joe Pace
Oct 25, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #300: Josh Lyman
Man, what I wouldn't give to be Jed Bartlet. The intellect, the gravitas, the sheer untrammeled competence. Or Leo McGarry with his...
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Joe Pace
Oct 24, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #299: Mitchell McDeere
There are a lot of Tom Cruise roles from his Hall-of-Fame stretch from 1983-1996 that I cherish, many of which I even identify with....
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Joe Pace
Oct 23, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #298: Unicron
I'll reiterate what I've said more than once on this list - the 1986 Transformers animated movie is one of my favorite things ever. If...
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Joe Pace
Oct 22, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #297: Asterix
A short, smart, heroic Gaul from the first century AD, Asterix leads the resistance to the conquering Romans in his village and elsewhere...
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Joe Pace
Oct 21, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #296: Rip Van Winkle
I love Rip Van Winkle. Here's a dude who didn't really have any interest in working for a living, interested mainly in loafing around his...
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Joe Pace
Oct 20, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #295: HAL 9000
Sir Arthur C. Clarke was a titan in the history of science fiction, one of the 20th century's Big Three along with Asimov and Heinlein....
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Joe Pace
Oct 19, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #294: Perseus
Perseus was, in many ways, the original questing hero. His story contains many of the elements that have become essential tropes of...
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