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Grace Jones, Pee Wee Herman, and the Melancholy Spirit of Christmas
Carpenter understands that a Christmas special works best when it leans into the sweet and goofy and strange, and the success of that production made me think of Pee Wee Herman’s 1988 Christmas ...
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‘Pee-wee Herman’ actor Paul Reubens comes out as gay in posthumous documentary
The creator of TV character Pee-wee Herman has posthumously come out ... and director Tim Burton at the premiere of ‘The Nightmare Before Christmas 3D’ in 2006 (credit: Vince Bucci/Getty ...
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‘Pee-wee as Himself’ Review: The Late Paul Reubens Opens Up — When He Doesn’t Close Up — in an Expansive Portrait
Matt Wolf's two-part documentary gives the man behind Pee-wee Herman a platform to come out of the closet, but doesn't mask the tension between the filmmaker and a subject with understandable ...
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‘Pee-wee as Himself’ Director on His Attempts to Gain Paul Reubens’ Trust: ‘There Was a Real Power Struggle Between Us’
In the opening sequence of Matt Wolf’s HBO documentary series “Pee-wee as Himself,” the late artist and performer Paul Reubens mulls over who should have control of a celebrity documentary.