Joe Pace
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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Joe Pace
- Apr 22, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #113: Kingpin
If you haven't watched the first two seasons of Daredevil on Netflix, do yourself a favor, block off 24 hours in the near future and get...
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Joe Pace
- Apr 21, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #112: Jamie Buchman
I'll admit it: I enjoyed Mad About You. Sure, it's fairly standard sitcom fare, and its depiction of complex affection between a young...
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Joe Pace
- Apr 20, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #111: Jules Winnfield
I'm honestly not sure which came first, Samuel L. Jackson or Jules Winnfield. The actor and character are so virtually indistinguishable...
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Joe Pace
- Apr 19, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #110: Starscream
Yeah, I was a big Transformers guy back in the mid-1980s. The original toy line and the cartoon culminating in the groundbreaking 1986...
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