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 ...

Rucker Park has been a cornerstone of Black basketball history, a legendary proving ground ... flossing before the word was even in our lexicon. Young hustlers like Pee Wee Kirkland would step out of ...

Paul Reubens, known for his iconic character Pee-wee Herman, died on July 30, 2023 Keith Langston is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. He has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. His work has ...

Paul Reubens knew he was dying, and the director didn’t, as they were making “Pee-wee as Himself,” an extraordinary documentary that pulls back the curtain on the man known to the world as ...

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 ...

But do you have any recollection of the man who brought Pee-wee Herman to life, save for a fuzzy memory of a few incriminatory headlines? In “Pee-wee as Himself,” Paul Reubens makes it clear ...

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 ...

(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 ...

TONYA MOSLEY, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. Paul Reubens, the actor best known for his alter ego of Pee-wee Herman, died in 2023 after a private six-year battle with cancer. Near the end of his life ...

You know him as "Pee-wee Herman," but in a new documentary, he wants you to know him simply as Paul Reubens. "Pee-wee as Himself," a two-part HBO series, shows a side of the beloved children's ...