The post Paul Reubens Fights to Control His Story in Pee-wee as Himself: Review appeared first on Consequence. When the new HBO documentary Pee-wee as Himself premiered at Sundance earlier this year, ...

For a documentary so packed with Pee-wee Herman lore that it required two 90-minute segments, Pee-wee As Himself glosses over some critical parts of the character’s history. While the majority of Paul ...

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"I was born in 1938 in a little house on the edge of the Mississippi River; my father worked on a steamboat and his name was Steamboat Milton," says Paul Reubens by way of misdirection in Matt Wolf's ...

The new two-part documentary “Pee-wee as Himself” premiered on HBO and Max on May 23, a complex portrait of a complicated man, Paul Reubens, who found fame as his alter ego, Pee-wee Herman, and ...

When Matt Wolf took on the daunting task of creating a documentary about the enigmatic Paul Reubens, the man behind the flamboyant and charming Pee-wee Herman, the filmmaker never could have imagined ...

The two-part HBO documentary series, “Pee-wee as Himself” follows in the footsteps of “Faye,” “Sly,” and “Martha”; that is, it’s a film where the subject speaks for himself in interviews conducted by ...

Of the very many famous people who admired the late comic actor Paul Reubens’ singular creation named Pee-wee Herman — among them Conan O’Brien, Jimmy Kimmel, film director John Waters, Lily Tomlin, ...

What's it like to work with Pee-wee Herman? You probably know what it's like to watch Pee-wee – whether it's Pee-wee's Playhouse, Pee-wee's Big Adventure or his 2016 Netflix movie. It's a unique, kind ...

As someone who grew up enjoying Pee-wee Herman, I was very interested to learn about the man behind the man-child, Paul Reubens, in Pee-wee as Himself. Director Matt Wolf’s two-part documentary, now ...