Joe Pace
Favorite Fictional Characters, #361: Lt. Col. Henry Blake
M*A*S*H featured earlier on this list with the profile of Alan Alda's Hawkeye Pierce. And while Pierce may be my favorite, he's not the...
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Joe Pace
Dec 25, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #360: The Twelfth Day of Christmas: Santa Claus
It doesn't get any better than an avatar of giving and love, a jolly old soul who cherishes children and encourages goodness. Hey, maybe...
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Joe Pace
Dec 24, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #359: The Eleventh Day of Christmas: The Good Little Christmas Tree
In December of 2003, Sarah and I had been dating for about a year. She was midway through a six-month volunteer stint in New Zealand, and...
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Joe Pace
Dec 23, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #358: The Tenth Day of Christmas: Yukon Cornelius
We all know that Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is the most savage and hellish of the classic holiday specials, depicting a Hobbesian...
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Joe Pace
Dec 22, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #357: The Ninth Day of Christmas: The Grinch
I do enjoy a good supervillain, and The Grinch has to come in among the first rank for Christmas antagonists. He's cunning, twisted,...
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Joe Pace
Dec 21, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #356: The Eighth Day of Christmas: Herr Drosselmeyer
I've worn a lot of different hats during my four decades, but one of the more unusual among them was my stint as Executive Director of...
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Joe Pace
Dec 20, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #355: The Seventh Day of Christmas: Buddy Elf
Among the modern Christmas classics, it's hard not to include Elf in the first rank. It's engagingly and unapologetically silly, and...
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Joe Pace
Dec 19, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #354: The Sixth Day of Christmas: David
I get it. There are people who despise Love Actually. There are those who find it treacly or shallow or trite. There are those who take...
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Joe Pace
Dec 18, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #353: The Fifth Day of Christmas: Winter Warlock
Of all the classic Rankin-Bass stop-motion holiday specials, my undisputed favorite is 1970's Santa Claus is Comin' to Town. I'm a sucker...
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Joe Pace
Dec 17, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #352: The Fourth Day of Christmas: Linus Van Pelt
Yeah, he sucks his thumb. Yeah, he carries around a security blanket and lets his big sister push him around. His head is lumpy and his...
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Joe Pace
Dec 16, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #351: The Third Day of Christmas: Frank Cross
I'm cheating a bit here: this entry is really about two characters, though a single archetype. First, I love Ebenezer Scrooge. I love...
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Joe Pace
Dec 15, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #350: The Second Day of Christmas: George Bailey
I think we've all got a bit of George Bailey in us. Life rarely pans out the way we thought it might when we were young. We plan to lasso...
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