Joe Pace
Favorite Fictional Characters, #289: Octavian Nothing
The 2006 young adult historical novel The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing: Traitor to the Nation is a fascinating, ambitious,...
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Joe Pace
Oct 13, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #288: Wilma Flintstone
If you'd asked me when I was a teenager to name my favorite prehistoric protagonist from the anachronistic cartoon The Flintstones, I...
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Joe Pace
Oct 12, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #287: Remus Lupin
There are a lot of things to celebrate about the Harry Potter books, many of which I've touched on earlier in this list. One of the...
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Joe Pace
Oct 11, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #286: Lester Burnham
The time had to come eventually, I suppose. Next May I'll turn 42, the age at which Lester Burnham experiences his...
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Joe Pace
Oct 10, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #285: Shallow Hal
We all know a guy (and have, at times in our own lives, been a guy or even - gasp - a girl) like shallow Hal Larson. Superficial, caught...
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Joe Pace
Oct 9, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #284: Casca Rufio Longinus
The premise of the Casca series is a phenomenal and basic one. A Roman soldier, Casca stabs Jesus Christ with his spear while the Son of...
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Joe Pace
Oct 8, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #283: Dazzler
The origins of Dazzler are so wonderfully representative of late-70s corporate bumbling and creative bankruptcy that it's amazing such a...
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Joe Pace
Oct 7, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #282: Buzz Lightyear
The Toy Story films are perhaps Pixar's greatest, most enduring achievement. All of us as children imagined that our toys were more than...
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Joe Pace
Oct 6, 2016
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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