In this Oct. 29, 2010, photo, Paul Reubens, in character as Pee-wee Herman, poses on stage after a performance of "The Pee-wee Herman Show" on Broadway in New York. AP Americans today seem to almost ...

For a documentary so packed with Pee-wee Herman lore that it required two 90-minute segments, Pee-wee As Himself glosses over some critical parts of the character’s history. While the majority of Paul ...

“Pee-Wee As Himself” is Matt Wolf’s two-part documentary that recently began streaming on Max, which you probably still call HBO Max. (It will again officially be known as HBO Max soon, in an example ...

Those who tune into the new HBO original documentary Pee-wee as Himselfmight be surprised to see that a number of now-notable stars appeared on Paul Reubens’ popular Saturday morning TV show Pee-Wee’s ...

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 of the ...

Paul Reubens transforms himself in the mirror into his character Pee-wee Herman in May 1980 in Los Angeles, California. (CREDIT: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) Director Matt Wolf spent two years ...

Paul Reubens’s performance as Pee-wee Herman gave fans “license to be weird.” At an underground cabaret, he cheered on his community of renegades. Paul Reubens, as seen in the documentary “Pee-wee as ...

One of the pivotal turns in Paul Reubens’s life happened years before Pee-wee Herman, years before the “Playhouse,” years before the arrests. It was the mid-seventies, and Reubens was in his early ...

The new documentary premiering May 23 on Max, Pee-wee as Himself, sets out to show the man behind the iconic TV character. But the line between person and persona is blurry. Case in point: Pee-wee ...

While HBO plans to celebrate the life of Paul Reubens in their original documentary Pee-wee as Himself, Shout! TV will run a marathon of his signature TV series Pee-wee's Playhouse on the same day, on ...