Joe Pace
Favorite Fictional Characters, #125: Charles Keating
I like Dead Poets Society. It's a nice movie, with just the right admixture of tragedy and inspiration, although it threatens at times to...
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Joe Pace
May 3, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #124: Galactus
I've been in a mood lately, fending off a minor streak of bad luck, But you know what? I'm not the sole survivor of the universe that...
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Joe Pace
May 2, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #123: Julia Sullivan
Believe it or not, there was a time in the mid-1990s when Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler appeared poised to become the Meg Ryan and Tom...
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Joe Pace
May 1, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #122: Sheila the Thief
It's been a long day, and I've been delayed in getting to posting today's favorite character. Well, to show that I retain some small...
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Joe Pace
Apr 30, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #121: Pezzo the Peddler
Esphyr Slobodkina's Caps for Sale is an absolute classic of children's literature. The illustrations are stylized and bright, the writing...
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Joe Pace
Apr 29, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #120: Daniel Miller
I've always been a big fan of the 1991 Albert Brooks comedy Defending Your Life. It's a sardonic, witty, even bittersweet take on what...
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Joe Pace
Apr 28, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #119: Beetlejuice
Beetlejuice is a strange film, but then it's a Tim Burton film, so what else would you expect? Michael Keaton is at the peak of his...
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Joe Pace
Apr 27, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #118: Holly Golightly
For our purposes here, I'm talking about the Holly from the 1961 Blake Edwards film version of Breakfast at Tiffany's, not the Holly from...
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Joe Pace
Apr 26, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #117: J.R. Ewing
There are a lot of heroes on this list, plenty of paragons of virtue and honor. There are also plenty of scoundrels, rogues, and...
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Joe Pace
Apr 25, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #116: Mr. Incredible
Bob Parr was really good at his job, and he loved doing it. He had all the attention and accolades he could want, a sense of purpose,...
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Joe Pace
Apr 24, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #115: Hannibal Lecter
Confession: I've never read any of the Harris novels. I've never seen the movies other than Silence of the Lambs. Some might hear that...
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Joe Pace
Apr 23, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #114: Pee-Wee Herman
There are some weird things in this world, make no mistake. And one of the weirdest is the frenetic, bizarre man-child Pee-Wee Herman....
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