Paul Reubens, subject of a new HBO documentary, was in the closet — but his famous character wasn't Tom Gliatto reviews the latest TV and movie releases for PEOPLE Magazine. He also writes many ...

Paul Reubens — aka Pee-wee Herman — left a heartbreaking phone message for filmmaker Matt Wolf the day before he died. The two had been collaborating on “Pee-wee Herman as Himself,” a docu ...

(Pee-wee is always only himself, but Paul Reubens was often — and the only — Pee-wee Herman.) Identity is at the heart of this story — the unresolvable relationship between the real self ...

Saturday-morning TV is traditionally for kids, but this quasi-adult drank many a weekend coffee watching “Pee-wee’s Playhouse,” wishing I had a comfortable Chairry, a genie like Jambi ...

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 ...

By James Poniewozik The title of “Pee-wee as Himself,” the two-part documentary that airs Friday on HBO, is a bit of a ruse, or maybe a riddle. Pee-wee Herman, the manic, bow-tied man-child ...

Moments into the illuminating, two-part HBO documentary Pee-wee as Himself, what emerges pretty quickly is a struggle for control. Paul Reubens, the performer who invented the Pee-wee Herman ...

Both directors appear in the two-part HBO documentary helmed by Matt Wolf and executive produced by Benny and Josh Safdie. Paul Reubens became an icon thanks to his comedic character Pee-wee ...

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Paul Reubens is sharing "the factual story of his life" in the new two-part HBO docuseries, 'Pee-wee as Himself,' which premieres on May 23 at 8 p.m. Paul Reubens is introducing himself to the ...

Matt Wolf's two-part documentary gives the man behind Pee-wee Herman a platform to come out of the closet, but doesn't mask the tension between the filmmaker and a subject with understandable ...