Tag: The Pee-wee Herman Show
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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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The Dark Pee-Wee Herman Movie That Never Made It To The Big Screen
Paul Reubens’ Pee-wee Herman wasn’t always kid friendly.My introduction to the most lovable dweeb in the history of dweebs came via “The Pee-wee Herman Show,” the stage show that, in 1981, announced Reubens as the most inventively bizarre comedic talent since Ernie Kovacs. The production caught fire at Los Angeles’ Groundlings theater, and eventually moved…