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 ...

“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 trailer for the documentary Pee-wee as Himself never uses the word “gay,” but queerness is imbued in every frame. In the first trailer released today for the upcoming HBO documentary, Pee-wee ...

This fascinating though incomplete documentary tells Paul Reubens’s story despite the subject’s doubts about the project. By James Poniewozik The title of “Pee-wee as Himself,” the two-part ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pee-wee Herman and the secret, complicated world of the man behind him: ‘I didn’t see him as a victim’ The American actor and ...