Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Paul Reubens knew he was dying, and the director didn’t, as they were making “Pee-wee as Himself,” an extraordinary documentary ...

The world knew and loved Pee-wee Herman for more than four decades, but how much did anyone know the man behind the child-like character in the gray suit and red bow tie? Just before he died in 2023, ...

"I was born in 1938 in a little house on the edge of the Mississippi River; my father worked on a steamboat and his name was Steamboat Milton," says Paul Reubens by way of misdirection in Matt Wolf's ...

Driven by a soul-baring interview with Paul Reubens, the man behind the iconic character Pee-wee Herman, Pee-wee as Himself ...

Also on TV this week, a new season of Nine Perfect Strangers premieres on Hulu, and new episodes of Couples Therapy debut on Paramount+ with... Moments into the illuminating, two-part HBO documentary ...

Some bio documentaries are carried mostly by the reflective, archival footage that send you back to the subject’s heyday. But in Matt Wolf’s “Pee-wee as Himself” — as wonderful as much of the archival ...

For the first time, meet the man behind the character. Check out the Pee-wee as Himself trailer for the upcoming two-part documentary starring Paul Reubens. Pee-wee as Himself, directed by Matt Wolf, ...

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 ...

In Pee-Wee Herman as Himself, streaming now on HBO Max, Wolf explores the artist behind the creation. Wolf got to know Herman, who died in 2023, not only through the process of making the docuseries, ...

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 character ...