Joe Pace
Favorite Fictional Characters, #281: Nathaniel Mayweather
When the 1994 movie Cabin Boy opens, Nathaniel Mayweather is wrapping up his stint at a posh finishing school for wealthy young men, a...
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Joe Pace
Oct 5, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #280: Fred the Baker
As I don suit and tie and head back to work after a year of domesticity, I'm forcibly reminded of another tireless New England icon of...
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Joe Pace
Oct 4, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #279: The Cheshire Cat
The Cheshire Cat of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is famous for his grin, and there's a reason he's smiling. In a...
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Joe Pace
Oct 3, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #278: Lucky Day
From 1986 to 1992, Steve Martin enjoyed his greatest sustained cinematic success (The Jerk, in 1979, a bit of an outlier). Little Shop of...
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Joe Pace
Oct 2, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #277: Susan Pevensie
I hesitate to tackle the Chronicles of Narnia here, because I have such mixed feelings about the series. In some ways, I find them...
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Joe Pace
Oct 1, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #276: John "Hannibal" Smith
The A-Team was, in keeping with the endemic foolishness of the mid-1980s, a ludicrous premise. To quote: "A crack commando unit sent to...
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Joe Pace
Sep 30, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #275: Destro
I was the Transformers guy back in the day; my friend Jeff DiBartolomeo was the guy with the G.I. Joe toys at his house. I was always...
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