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

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 ...

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 ... film, “Big Top Pee-wee ...

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).

Of course that wasn’t his real name, but the man-child ... s” show, “Pee-wee’s Playhouse,” and in riotous films like “Pee-wee’s Big Adventure” and “Big Top Pee-wee,” the ...

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 ...

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 ...