Joe Pace
Favorite Fictional Characters, #53: Professor X
The X-Men were unusual in the early 1960s for several reasons. They were young, students really, but more importantly they were...
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Joe Pace
Feb 21, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #52: Flora-717
Be warned: The Bees by Laline Paull is a weird book, an odd, foreign feminine manifesto. It follows the experiences of Flora-717, a...
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Joe Pace
Feb 20, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #51: OWEN MEANY
It is likely that some portion of my affection for A Prayer for Owen Meany stems from the setting. Irving's Gravesend is a...
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Joe Pace
Feb 19, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #50: Darth Vader
The Empire Strikes Back is the first movie I can remember seeing in the theater. I was five years old, and it's hard to parse my actual...
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Joe Pace
Feb 18, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #49: Amy Gardner
I could probably do a whole week or more just on West Wing characters. Among them would be, without question, Amy Gardner. There's so...
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Joe Pace
Feb 17, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #48: Khan Noonien Singh
There's no question that City on the Edge of Forever is the best episode of the original Star Trek series. The top five is open to some...
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Joe Pace
Feb 16, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #47: Inigo Montoya
The Princess Bride is terrific. Let me explain...no, it is too much. Let me sum up: Goldman's book is a brilliant romp that evokes and...
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Joe Pace
Feb 15, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #46: Londo Mollari
I always regarded Babylon 5 as the poor man's Star Trek (specifically, the poor man's Deep Space 9). A few years back, at the urging of...
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Joe Pace
Feb 14, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #45: Thumper
I was never all that impressed or affected by Bambi. His mother's death wasn't a seminal moment for me. But boy, did I dig Thumper. Here...
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Joe Pace
Feb 13, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #44: Odysseus
I always loved that in a time that valued and celebrated men of battle prowess and epic strength, there was an Odysseus (or Ulysses). A...
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Joe Pace
Feb 12, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #43: Sam "Mayday" Malone
There are plenty of reasons Cheers is in the conversation as greatest sitcom of all time. Cliff, Norm, Coach (always better than Woody),...
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Joe Pace
Feb 11, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #42: Danny Saunders
I first read Chaim Potok's The Chosen when it was assigned in early high school. I was struck then by Danny Saunders, a character so...
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