He did take advantage of one chance to poke fun at his tarnished image. Reubens said he got plenty of offers to work, but told the AP that most of them wanted to take “advantage of the luridness of my situation”,” and he didn’t want to do them. “That’s something I knew from that very moment, whatever happens past that point, something’s out there in the air that is really bad.” “The moment that I realized my name was going to be said in the same sentence as children and sex, that’s really intense,” Reubens told NBC in 2004. He became the frequent butt of late-night talk show jokes and the perception of Reubens immediately changed. He was handed a small fine but the damage was incalculable. Reubens’ career was derailed when he was arrested for indecent exposure in an adult movie theater in Sarasota, Florida, the city where he grew up. One, I don’t know, and two, I don’t want to know, and three, I feel like I’ll hex myself if I know.” Much as people want me to dissect it and explain it, I can’t. “That’s all it ever is and I think always ever be. “The whole thing has been just a gut feeling from the beginning,” Reubens told the AP. I always censored myself to have it be kid-friendly. “People have tried to get me for years to go, ‘It wasn’t really for kids, right?’ Even the original show was for kids. “It’s for kids,” Reubens told The Associated Press in 2010. The act was a hit because it worked on multiple levels, even though Reubens insists that wasn’t the plan. He never forgot a birthday and shared his genuine delight for silliness with everyone he met.”īoth silly and subversive and championing nonconformity, the Pee-wee universe was a trippy place, populated by things like a talking armchair and a friendly pterodactyl.ĭirector Guillermo del Toro tweeted Monday that Reubens was “one of the patron saints of all misfitted, weird, maladjusted, wonderful, miraculous oddities.” Jimmy Kimmel posted on Instagram that “Paul Reubens was like no one else - a brilliant and original comedian who made kids and their parents laugh at the same time. His television series, “Pee-wee’s Playhouse,” ran for five seasons, earned 22 Emmys and attracted not only children but adults to Saturday-morning TV. Judd Apatow produced Pee-wee’s big-screen revival. Reubens’ character wouldn’t get another movie starring role until 2016’s Pee-wee’s Big Holiday,” for Netflix. The film, in which Pee-wee’s cherished bike is stolen, was said to be loosely based on Vittorio De Sica’s Italian neo-realist classic, “The Bicycle Thief.” Directed by Tim Burton and co-written by Hartman, the movie was a success, grossing $40 million, and continued to spawn a cult following for its oddball whimsy.Ī sequel followed three years later in the less well-received “Big Top Pee-wee,” in which Pee-wee seeks to join a circus. Reubens took Pee-wee to the big screen with 1985’s “Pee-wee’s Big Adventure,” which takes the character outside for a nationwide escapade. The staccato giggle that punctuated every sentence, catch phrases like “I know you are but what am I” and a tabletop dance to the Champs’ song “Tequila” in a biker bar in “Pee-wee’s Big Adventure” were often imitated by fans, to the joy of some and the annoyance of others. I have loved you all so much and enjoyed making art for you.”Ĭreated for the stage, Pee-wee with his white chunky loafers and red bow tie would become a cultural constant in both adult and children’s entertainment for much of the 1980s, though an indecent exposure arrest in 1991 would send the character into entertainment exile for years. “I have always felt a huge amount of love and respect from my friends, fans and supporters. “Please accept my apology for not going public with what I’ve been facing the last six years,” Reubens said in a statement released Monday with the announcement of his death. Reubens, who’s character delighted fans in the film “Pee-wee’s Big Adventure” and on the TV series “Pee-wee’s Playhouse,” died Sunday night after a six-year struggle with cancer that he kept private, his publicist said in a statement. LOS ANGELES (AP) - Paul Reubens, the actor and comedian whose Pee-wee Herman character - an overgrown child with a tight gray suit and an unforgettable laugh - became a 1980s pop cultural phenomenon, has died at 70. By ANDREW DALTON (AP Entertainment Writer)
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