The actor, then 35, had already rocketed to fame as Pee-wee Herman, the bicycle-obsessed man-child from 1985's ... For his ...

As Pee-wee Herman, Paul Reubens was a performance artist hiding in plain sight in mainstream popular culture. His fictional character, a hyperactive, bow-tied man-child, provided subversive messages ...

Director Matt Wolf sat with the funny actor for 40 hours over the course of a year to reflect on his life as a closeted gay man ... his film follow-up, “Big Top Pee-wee,” was a maligned ...

Fitting words from a man whose most famous catchphrase ended ... ditto some of the choices made on Big Top Pee-wee. It’s in the frequently troubled later segments of Reubens’ life that Pee ...

Reubens also co-wrote the script with Phil Hartman and Michael Varhol. It spawned two sequels, Big Top Pee-wee (1988) and Pee-wee's Big Holiday (2016).

The man staring into the camera is not ... Not the last, either. Pee-wee as Himself, the two-part, three-and-a-half-hour doc on both Reubens and the Frankenstein-monster manchild who eclipsed ...

Reubens also co-wrote the script with Phil Hartman and Michael Varhol. It spawned two sequels, Big Top Pee-wee (1988) and Pee-wee's Big Holiday (2016).

Reubens also co-wrote the script with Phil Hartman and Michael Varhol. It spawned two sequels, Big Top Pee-wee (1988) and Pee-wee's Big Holiday (2016).

Matt Wolf's two-part documentary gives the man behind Pee-wee Herman a platform ... projects — notably the Tim Burton-directed “Pee-wee’s Big Adventure” and the five-year run of his ...