Paul Reubens shares a final message about his controversial past in HBO's "Pee-wee as Himself" documentary, recorded just a day before his death.

PARK CITY, Utah—The world lost a genius when Paul Reubens died in 2023 at the age of 70, but he gets to tell his story—both ...

If you're besotted with this cherry-bright bicycle, you may want to pedal by Wilshire Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue one day soon, for one of the bikes seen on-screen in the film has been acquired by ...

The push-and-pull between a documentary filmmaker and their subject is always present in the resulting work, oftentimes simmering underneath the surface but still noticeable like a quiet hum. But with ...

It’s been 40 years since Pee-wee Herman lost his bike, and to be honest, we’re still not over it. Released in August 1985, “Pee-wee’s Big Adventure” not only introduced audiences at large to Paul ...

The two-part posthumous Paul Reubens documentary out of Sundance premieres one month from today on HBO and Max. By Tony Maglio The man behind Pee-wee Herman, Paul Reubens (Blow), is ready to truly ...

The two-part HBO documentary series, “Pee-wee as Himself” follows in the footsteps of “Faye,” “Sly,” and “Martha”; that is, it’s a film where the subject speaks for himself in interviews conducted by ...

Pee-wee As Himself tells the story of how a kid who grew up adoring The Little Rascals and I Love Lucy went on to revolutionize sketch comedy and children's television. In 1986, one of the most ...

To love Pee-Herman was a wonderful thing, a silly and liberating thing. Miss Yvonne, actually, looked like a girl who’d gotten lost on her way to the prom a few decades earlier and finally turned up, ...

This story is part of our Best Things in Texas package, which appeared in the December 2025 issue. For the last year or so I was busy with an unusual project: writing the interpretive panels for the ...