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).

As Reubens points out (and which got Reubens in trouble in the second half of his life), he spent ... ditto some of the choices made on Big Top Pee-wee. It’s in the frequently troubled later ...