AZ Central

All your Pee-wee Herman questions answered, sort of, in fascinating film

Considering that Paul Reubens helped deconstruct performance art and children’s TV — not your usual combo — is it any surprise that “Pee-wee as Himself” deconstructs the documentary? It is not. And we ...
Yahoo

Pee-wee Herman and the secret, complicated world of the man behind him: ‘I didn’t see him as a victim’

The American actor and performance artist Paul Reubens spent decades in the cloak of his alter ego, the strange, effervescent children’s entertainer Pee-wee Herman. Reubens liked the shadows and the ...
Yahoo

Let’s Talk About Pee-wee’s Playhouse

“Everything I did and wrote was based in love and my desire to entertain and bring glee and creativity to young people and to everyone,” Paul Reubens says in the newly released Max docuseries, Pee-wee ...
NPR

'Pee-wee as Himself' gives unprecedented access to an eccentric comedy legend

Moments into the illuminating, two-part HBO documentary Pee-wee as Himself, what emerges pretty quickly is a struggle for control. Paul Reubens, the performer who invented the Pee-wee Herman character ...
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Paul Reubens tells his story in ‘Pee-wee as Himself.’ Here’s how it came together after his death

Paul Reubens did not tell his director that he was dying. On July 31, 2023, the news of Reubens’ death came as a shock to documentary filmmaker Matt Wolf, who had spent a year trying to convince him ...
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"Pee-wee as Himself" reveals Paul Reubens’ struggle for control—on and off screen

As Pee-wee Herman, Paul Reubens was a performance artist hiding in plain sight in mainstream popular culture. His fictional character, a hyperactive, bow-tied man-child, provided subversive messages ...
AOL

Pee-wee and Me: Why a Gay Man Felt at Home Watching “Pee-wee's Playhouse”

To love Pee-Herman was a wonderful thing, a silly and liberating thing. Miss Yvonne, actually, looked like a girl who’d gotten lost on her way to the prom a few decades earlier and finally turned up, ...
New York Post

Be like Pee-wee: Healthy nonconformity can save us from the identity trap

In this Oct. 29, 2010, photo, Paul Reubens, in character as Pee-wee Herman, poses on stage after a performance of "The Pee-wee Herman Show" on Broadway in New York. AP Americans today seem to almost ...
Hartford Courant

Pee-wee’s bike is at the Alamo, but not where you think

What to Stream: ‘Wicked: For Good’ soundtrack, Ted Danson, ‘The Bad Guys 2’ and Black cowboys Rock on this week in CT arts with Black Sabbath tribute, political rock advocate and British legend Rock ...
KSAT

Paul Reubens tells his story in ‘Pee-wee as Himself.’ Here's how it came together after his death

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Paul Reubens tells his story in ‘Pee-wee as Himself.’ Here's how it came together after his death

Paul Reubens did not tell his director that he was dying. On July 31, 2023, the news of Reubens' death came as a shock to documentary filmmaker Matt Wolf, who had spent a year trying to convince him ...