Joe Pace
Favorite Fictional Characters, #77: Joseph Donnelly
I make no argument that Far and Away is a great movie. It is a fun movie, a sumptuously-shot fairy tale/period piece, with a masterful...
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Joe Pace
Mar 16, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #76: Rufus T. Firefly
When we were roommates at UNH, Joel Mellin introduced me to a variety of cultural influences. Some I've managed, with a lot of hard work,...
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Joe Pace
Mar 15, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #75: Wolverine
This is when I get to play my comic hipster card. Wolverine was my favorite long before he became the overexposed Batman of the Marvel...
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Joe Pace
Mar 14, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #74: Paul Bunyan
As Americans, we like to think of ourselves as the biggest and the strongest, honest and tough. As an invented ethnicity, lacking the...
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Joe Pace
Mar 13, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #73: Mr. Furious
Mystery Men is a fun, quirky sendup of the superhero genre that swiftly came and went in 1999 leaving a very small dent in the box...
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Joe Pace
Mar 12, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #72: Peter Venkman
Some might argue for Caddyshack, or Groundhog Day, or Stripes or Scrooged or Kingpin. Maybe one of his later, more quirky efforts, like...
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Joe Pace
Mar 11, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #71: Ulysses Everett McGill
O Brother, Where Art Thou? is a fun film. Loosely based on Homer's Odyssey, it's a journey narrative set in Depression-era Mississippi...
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Joe Pace
Mar 10, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #70: Dougal McDonegal
Last night I finished reading aloud to my boys the book Junket: The Dog Who Liked Everything Just So, written in 1955 by Anne H. White...
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Joe Pace
Mar 9, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #69: Haviland Tuf
I am as much a fan of George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire as anyone, especially the early volumes before he became hopelessly...
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Joe Pace
Mar 8, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #68: Conan the Cimmerian
I pretend to no great intimacy with the original Conan stories of Robert E. Howard or the subsequent de Camp/Carter versions, or even the...
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Joe Pace
Mar 7, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #67: Tony Stark/Iron Man
With other comic characters, I usually simply refer to the costumed name, but so much of what makes Iron Man compelling is the man behind...
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Joe Pace
Mar 6, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #66: Diane Court
Say Anything is a seminal movie for folks of my vintage. For the most part, it's a formulaic teen love story, a Cameron Crowe...
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