Tag: Pee-wee’s Big Adventure
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Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure Was A Big Inspiration For A Horror Classic
The late, great Paul Reubens was an artist of incredible duality, a quality embodied by his most famous character, Pee-wee Herman. With his neatly-cropped hair, snazzy red bow tie, and stylin’ grey suit and pants, Pee-wee looked like a member of The Little Rascals who had inexplicably grown up overnight. He wasn’t all childish innocence…
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A Long Time Ago, Paul Reubens Played A Beloved Star Wars Character
With the sudden passing of actor Paul Reubens after a private battle with cancer, the outpouring across the country and the world has been comforting, to say the least. Reubens will always be most associated with Pee-wee Herman, the character he created and developed when he was a part of the world-famous comedy troupe The…
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How Paul Reubens Saved Pee-Wee’s Playhouse From An Animated Fate
“Pee-wee’s Playhouse” was an anomaly. It premiered a year after the surprise box office success of Tim Burton’s “Pee-wee’s Big Adventure,” and, like “The Pee-wee Herman Show” before it, seemed to be strictly kids’ stuff. But Paul Reubens’ overgrown child act uniquely appealed to the inner brat in all of us. It wasn’t like Looney…
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How Paul Reubens Landed Laurence Fishburne For Pee-Wee’s Playhouse
The late, great Paul Reubens didn’t just bring his chipper, friendly, well-dressed character Pee-wee Herman to television with “Pee-wee’s Playhouse.” He also brought total anarchy. In a children’s television landscape dominated by poorly disguised toy commercials and wholesome live-action hosts, “Pee-wee’s Playhouse” was a loud, chaotic, unapologetically strange (and sometimes controversial) TV series where anything…
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The Best Danny Elfman Songs, from ‘Jack’s Lament’ to ‘The Simpsons’ Theme
Where were you when the best Coachella set since Beyoncé happened? When Danny Elfman took the stage of Coachella shirtless on April 2022 to perform music from his band Oingo Boingo as well as the scores of “A Nightmare Before Christmas,” “Edward Scissorhands,” and — of course — “The Simpsons,” it set Twitter afire. The…