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Joe Pace
Jun 21, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #173: Freakazoid
In the mid-1990s, animation was undergoing a renaissance, led by Disney's renewed feature-length greatness but also by heightened...
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Joe Pace
Jun 20, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #172: Sinbad the Sailor
Sinbad comes late to the Arabic fable-cycle we know as the 1001 Arabian Nights, appearing first in recognizable form in the 17th century,...
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Joe Pace
Jun 19, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #171: Homer Simpson
There are dozens of denizens of Springfield who could make this list. Lugubrious, spineless newscaster Kent Brockman and unabashed...
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Joe Pace
Jun 18, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #170: Cliffjumper
The Autobots' resident hothead, Bumblebee's fiercer, more aggressive, less milquetoast brother, Cliffjumper was always my favorite...
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Joe Pace
Jun 17, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #169: Vincent Benedict
You would be hard-pressed to find a more quintessentially 1988 film than Twins. It's a silly exercise based on a silly premise, rife with...
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Joe Pace
Jun 16, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #168: Jessica Rabbit
So, yeah, it was 1988. We were thirteen, and pretty much the target audience for an animated voluptuous sequined redhead cabaret singer....
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Joe Pace
Jun 15, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #167: Q
Star Trek: The Next Generation was a worthy, if somewhat lesser, heir to the Original Series. It stumbled a bit out of the blocks, as...
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Joe Pace
Jun 14, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #166: Rabbit
During our UNH days, Becky Turner once compared me to Rabbit from Winnie the Pooh. I have to admit there's some merit to the claim. The...
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Joe Pace
Jun 13, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #165: Dr. Benjamin Stone
In 1991, Michael J. Fox's career was at a turning point. He had wrapped his seven-year star-making run on Family Ties in 1989, completed...
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Joe Pace
Jun 12, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #164: Edith Bunker
There was a peculiar beauty and brilliance to All in the Family. Like most good art, it was a mirror in which we could see parts of...
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Joe Pace
Jun 11, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #163: Che
Eva Peron, of course, was a real person, and one whose story might feel eerily familiar to some. Webber's tragic treatment of the former...
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Joe Pace
Jun 10, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #162: George Costanza
Seinfeld is rightly considered one of the best sitcoms of all time. The writing is razor-sharp, topical, unforgiving and hilarious. The...
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