Joe Pace
Favorite Fictional Characters, #89: Diana
In the days before YouTube, Netflix, or even DVR, some things on broadcast TV qualified as "specials" or "events". V definitely fell into...
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Joe Pace
Mar 28, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #88: Frank the Tank
I'm not a huge Will Ferrell fan. He's kind of the same joke, over and over again. That said, it's a pretty funny joke, and he actually...
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Joe Pace
Mar 27, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #87: Officer Judy Hopps
We brought the boys to see Zootopia yesterday, so this is fresh in my mind. Plus, a bunny for Easter! Though not, as Judy herself would...
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Joe Pace
Mar 26, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #86: Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy
So much of the dynamic of the original Star Trek focused on Kirk and Spock, on their friendship and tension, on the balance of body and...
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Joe Pace
Mar 25, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #85: Mr. Hand
Fast Times at Ridgemont High is an absolute classic, and the reasons are legion. Star-making early performances by Sean Penn, Judge...
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Joe Pace
Mar 24, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #84: Gru
The minions may be the ubiquitous canary merchandising faces of the Despicable Me franchise, but they're not the reason for its success....
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Joe Pace
Mar 23, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #83: Yoda
The wizened little green freakshow in the swamp. The syntax-scrambling zen puppet (and yes, puppet > CGI). The tiny twirling lightsaber...
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Joe Pace
Mar 22, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #82: Ash Williams
My first taste of the Evil Dead movies came at a Splendor cast party in Angus Merry's basement twenty-four years ago. The original Evil...
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Joe Pace
Mar 21, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #81: Norman Dale
With basketball season front and center, let's make one thing clear: Hoosiers is the best sports movie ever made. Oh, there are others in...
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Joe Pace
Mar 20, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #80: Mockingbird
I came to the Marvel Universe in the mid-1980s, when most of the established characters and teams had 20-25 years of back story. I poured...
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Joe Pace
Mar 19, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #79: Benjamin "Hawkeye" Pierce
It might have something to do with having an Army doctor in the house, but M*A*S*H has found its way into our Netflix rotation. It's a...
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Joe Pace
Mar 18, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #78: Don Quixote
Cervantes' masterwork is a dense, complicated book. Often regarded as the first modern novel, The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La...
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