Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The first time we see Paul Reubens in the documentary “Pee-wee as Himself,” he is not playing Pee-wee Herman, the antic man-child ...

Prior to his death, Paul Reubens sat down to be interviewed for what would become the new HBO documentary, Pee-wee as Himself. “I really want to set the record straight on a couple things,” the ...

Even as Reubens wanted to impact kids with TV the way it impacted him, he lost part of himself by having his alter ego pass as a real person. Director Matt Wolf shrewdly recounts Reubens’ life and his ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

WHAT IT'S ABOUT This two-part film, which premiered at this year's Sundance, was a collaboration between veteran filmmaker Matt Wolf ("Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project") and Paul Reubens — Pee-wee ...

The first time we see Paul Reubens in the documentary “Pee-wee as Himself,” he is not playing Pee-wee Herman, the antic man-child he portrayed in comedy routines, movies, a children’s TV show and most ...