Joe Pace
Favorite Fictional Characters, #349: The First Day of Christmas: Karen
Kicking off my version of the Twelve Days of Christmas here at Favorite Fictional Characters with a character I really like from a...
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Joe Pace
Dec 13, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #348: Harrison Bergeron
Kurt Vonnegut, among his other superpowers, is a master of the short story. His 1968 collection Welcome to the Monkey House might be...
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Joe Pace
Dec 12, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #347: Roy Batty
True Confessions: I don't love Blade Runner. Oh, I respect Ridley Scott and adore Harrison Ford and I totally acknowledge how important...
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Joe Pace
Dec 11, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #346: Grandma Tala
Yesterday we took the boys to see Disney's newest offering, the Polynesian girl-power romp Moana. It's a lush visual experience, rich in...
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Joe Pace
Dec 10, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #345: Marvin the Martian
Bugs Bunny has had numerous antagonists over his long career. Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam, the Tasmanian Devil, among others. None have...
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Joe Pace
Dec 9, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #344: Lando Calrissian
There are scoundrels like Han Solo, swashbuckling smugglers who never grow up, never settle down, never trade in the buccaneer life for...
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Joe Pace
Dec 8, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #343: Oscar Madison
I know The Odd Couple originated on Broadway with Walter Mathau as the lovable sportswriting slob Oscar Madison, and that old friend...
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Joe Pace
Dec 7, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #342: Lowly Worm
Richard Scarry's Busytown can be a bewildering place, full of vaguely continental anthropomorphic beasties doing all sorts of things -...
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Joe Pace
Dec 6, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #341: Colossus
When I was a kid, I found Colossus to be the most boring of the X-Men. He was a big guy who could turn into steel, giving the team some...
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Joe Pace
Dec 5, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #340: Jeremy Gray
Vince Vaughn, like so many other modern comedic actors (Will Ferrell, for instance), plays one character. When the material is good and...
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Joe Pace
Dec 4, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #339: Pygmalion
Ovid first tells us of Pygmalion a classical sculptor so disgusted by the Propoetidian whores that he swears off women. He then crafts an...
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Joe Pace
Dec 3, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #338: Invisible Woman
The Fantastic Four are a unique bunch in comic history. The first collaboration of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, the team's debut is generally...
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