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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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Joe Pace
Sep 29, 2016
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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