But in Matt Wolf’s Pee-wee as Himself — as wonderful as much of the archival stuff is — is more compelling than when Paul Reubens is simply himself. Before his death from cancer in 2023, Reubens sat ...

The new two-part documentary “Pee-wee as Himself” premiered on HBO and Max on May 23, a complex portrait of a complicated man, Paul Reubens, who found fame as his alter ego, Pee-wee Herman ...

Director Matt Wolf spent two years interviewing Paul Reubens for his new HBO documentary “Pee-Wee as Himself,” not realizing that the actor was dying of cancer. As he told TheWrap at Sundance earlier ...

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 ...

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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 ...

This question is at the core of the excellent new Max two-part documentary “Pee-wee as Himself,” which seeks to tell the story of Paul Reubens and Pee-Wee Herman through lengthy interviews with its ...

The two-part documentary 'Pee-wee as Himself', premieres May 23 on HBO Lizzie Hyman is a Writer-Reporter for PEOPLE, where she contributes in-depth features and covers entertainment and news ...

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 ...

When filmmaker Matt Wolf begin conversations with Paul Reubens about a documentary – one that included his alter ego Pee-wee Herman – “it was clear there could be a power struggle.” ...

HBO’s new two-part docu-series “Pee-wee as Himself,” streaming Friday, prompts an eye-opening reconsideration of the phenomenon that was Pee-wee Herman, the celebrated children’s host ...

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