As Pee-wee Herman, Paul Reubens was a performance artist hiding in plain sight in mainstream popular culture. His fictional character, a hyperactive, bow-tied man-child, provided subversive messages ...

But fame was way more complicated.” In 1986, CBS offered Reubens a Saturday morning kids show — “Pee-wee’s Playhouse.” “I never really thought about being a children’s show host ...

It's difficult to stand out with a DVD or Blu-ray collection these days, but there were several examples this year (some of them notably long-awaited) that left TV fans grinning and reminding us ...

So says Paul Reubens — better remembered by many viewers as offbeat children’s entertainer Pee-wee Herman ... landmark kids’ series “Pee-wee’s Playhouse” — that are already ...

The show that followed, “Pee-wee’s Playhouse,” is among the best all-ages series from that period, with a punk-rock spirit and slyly subversive undercurrents. He was on talk shows (including ...

Prior to his recent death, Reubens, beloved for his nostalgic, avant garde programs like Pee-wee’s Playhouse, spoke in-depth about his creative influences, and the personal struggles he faced to ...

The man staring into the camera is not Pee-wee Herman. He may look a little like him, kinda sorta sound like him, have that same sly, agent-of-chaos-reporting-for-duty-sir smirk. But he is not the ...