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Paul Reubens

Reubens as Pee-wee Herman at the 1988 Academy Awards
Born Paul Rubenfeld
August 27, 1952 (1952-08-27) (age 56)
Peekskill, New York, U.S.
Other name(s) Pee-wee Herman
Official website

Paul Reubens (born August 27, 1952) is an American actor, writer, and comedian, known professionally for his character Pee-wee Herman. Reubens starred in the television series Pee-wee's Playhouse from 1986 until 1990. He also starred in an HBO special called The Pee-wee Herman Show, the 1985 movie Pee-wee's Big Adventure, and the 1988 movie Big Top Pee-wee. He has since gone on to take roles in other films, music videos, video games, and also, to make brief appearances on assorted talk shows.

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Early life and education

Reubens was born Paul Rubenfeld in Peekskill, New York, and grew up in Sarasota, Florida, where his parents, Judy and Milton, owned a lamp store. His mother was a teacher and his father also worked as an automobile salesperson[1] and had flown for the British in World War II, later becoming one of the founding pilots of the Israeli Air Force during the 1948 war of independence.[2] Paul has two younger siblings, Luke (b. 1958), who is a dog trainer, and Abby (b. 1953),[3] who has been described by The Tennessean as "an attorney, mother, lesbian and board member of the American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee,"[4] she is also an adjunct professor at Vanderbilt University Law School and former chair of the Individual Rights and Responsibilities section of the American Bar Association and of the National Lesbian and Gay Law Association.[5][6][7]

During winters, the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus called Sarasota home, and young Paul counted such big-top families as the Wallendas and the Acchinis among his neighbors. The circus sparked his interest in entertainment.[citation needed]

Reubens attended Sarasota High School, where he was named president of the National Thespian Society. He also joined the local Asolo Theater and Players of Sarasota Theater, appearing in a variety of plays..[8] After graduating he attended Boston University for one year before deciding to seek his fortune as Paul Reubens in Hollywood. There, he enrolled as an acting major at the California Institute of the Arts and accepted a string of pay-the-rent jobs ranging from pizza chef to Fuller Brush salesman.

In the 1970s, Reubens performed at local comedy clubs and made four guest appearances on The Gong Show as part of a boy-girl act.[8] He soon joined the Los Angeles-based improvisational comedy team The Groundlings and remained a member for six years, working with Bob McClurg, John Paragon, Susan Barnes, and Phil Hartman. Hartman and Reubens became friends, often writing and working on material together.

Pee-Wee Herman

Main article: Pee-Wee Herman
Reubens giving an interview in character at the 1988 Academy Awards
Reubens giving an interview in character at the 1988 Academy Awards

The character of "Pee-Wee Herman" first originated during a 1978 improvisation exercise with The Groundlings where Reubens came up with the idea of a man who wanted to be a comic, but was so inept at telling jokes that it was obvious for the audience that he would never make it.[9] Fellow Groundling Phil Hartman would afterwards help Reubens develop the character while another Groundling, John Paragon, would help write the show.[10][11] Despite having been compared to other famous characters, such as Hergé's Tintin and Collodi's Pinocchio,[12][13] Reubens says that there is no specific source for "Pee-Wee" but rather a collection of ideas. Pee-Wee's voice originated in 1970 when Reubens appeared in a production of Life With Father, where he was cast as one of the most obnoxious characters in the play, for which Reubens adopted a cartoon-like way of speaking that would become Pee-Wee's.[14][15] Pee-Wee's name is a mixture of a 1-inch Pee Wee brand harmonica Reubens had as a child while Herman was the surname of an energetic boy Reubens knew from his youth.[15][16] The first small grey suit Pee-Wee ever wore had been handmade for director and founder of the Groundlings Gary Austin, who passed it on to Reubens, while "someone" handed him the "little-kid bow tie" before a show.[17][18]

The Pee-wee Herman Show: 1981–1984

Main article: The Pee-wee Herman Show

Reubens auditioned for Saturday Night Live for the 1980-1981 season, but Gilbert Gottfried got the place. Reubens was so angry and bitter that he decided he would borrow money and start his own show in Los Angeles using the character he had been developing during the last few years, "Pee-Wee Herman".[19]

With the help of Phil Hartman and Lynne Marie Stewart, Pee-Wee acquired a small group of followers and Reubens took his show to The Roxy Theatre where "The Pee-Wee Herman Show" runned for five sellout months, going into the mainstream with the successful 1981 HBO special The Pee-wee Herman Show.[20] Reubens act had mainly positive reactions and quickly acquired a group of fans, despite being described as "bizarre",[21] and Reubens being described as "the weirdest comedian around".[22] Pee-Wee was both "corny" and "hip", "retrograde" and "avant-garde".[23]

When "Pee-Wee"'s fame started growing, Reubens started to move away from the spotlight, keeping his name under wraps and making all his public appearance and interviews in character while billing Pee-Wee as playing himself; Reubens was trying to "get the public to think that that was a real person".[20][9] In the early and mid 1980s Reubens made several guest appearances on Late Night with David Letterman as Pee-wee Herman which gave Pee-wee an even bigger following.[21] During the mid 1980s Reubens traveled the United States with a whole new The Pee-wee Herman Show, playing notably at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Caroline's in New York City and, in 1984, in front of a full Carnegie Hall.

Pee-wee's Big Adventure

Main article: Pee-wee's Big Adventure

While on a Warner Bros. set, Reubens noticed that most of the people rode around on bicycles, and asked when he would get his. Warner Bros. presented him with a refurbished 1940s Schwinn; Reubens then abandoned the Pee-wee Herman script he was writing in favor of one about Herman's love for his bike and his efforts to locate it once it was stolen. Hartman, Reubens, and Michael Varhol co-wrote the script for Pee-wee's Big Adventure, and in 1985 the film, directed by Tim Burton and scored by Danny Elfman, was released. Reubens was the originator of the "Pee-wee dance" in the movie, and he had performed it publicly many times prior to the making of the film.

Pee-wee's Playhouse: 1986–1990

Main article: Pee-wee's Playhouse

After seeing the success that Pee-Wee's Adventure had had CBS approached Reubens with an ill-received cartoon series proposal.[13] In 1986 CBS agreed to sign Reubens to act, produce, and direct his live-action children's program with a budget of $325,000 per episode, the same price as a prime-time sitcom.[20] Pee-wee's Playhouse after casting actors like Laurence Fishburne and S. Epatha Merkerson, production began in New York City in the summer of 1986 in a converted loft on Broadway which one of the show's writers, George McGrath, described as a "sweatshop". Reubens moved the production to Los Angeles for season 2 in 1987, resulting in a new set and a more relaxed work atmosphere[18]

Playhouse was designed as an educational yet entertaining show for children, being greatly influenced by 1950s shows Reubens watched as a child like The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, The Mickey Mouse Club, Captain Kangaroo and Howdy Doody, Playhouse quickly acquired a dual audience of kids and grownups.[17][12][15] Reubens was also after making a significantly moral show, one that would teach children the ethics of reciprocity. He was always conscious of the importance of having an ethnically diverse cast.[17] Reubens believed that children liked the Playhouse because it was fast-paced, colorful and "never talked them down"; while parents liked the Playhouse because it reminded them of the past.[17]

Playhouses premise was host Pee-wee Herman living in a wild and wacky house, known as the Playhouse, full of talking furniture, animals, robots, and other puppet and human characters. Each episode usually contained a running gag particular to that episode, and/or a specific occasion that would send Pee-wee into an emotional frenzy. The show had many recurring gags, themes, and devices, for example at the beginning of each show, viewers were told the day's "secret word" and were instructed to "scream real loud" every time a character on the show said the word. Despite being a live action show there were lots of puppet and clay animation sequences, some of them made by Peter Lord and Nick Park, creators of Wallace & Gromit. Occasionally brief clips from the 1930s, the Golden Age, would appear, usually presented by the "King of Cartoons".[13]

The show aired from September 13, 1986 until November 10, 1990. Reubens had originally agreed to do two more seasons after the third, and when CBS asked Reubens about the possibility of a sixth season he declined, wanting to take a couple of sabbatical years.[18] Both parties mutually agreed to end the show after five season, which included 45 episodes and a Christmas Special.[24] Playhouse garnered 22 Emmy Awards, most of them in the Creative Arts Emmy Award category.

In 1987, he provided the voice of REX, the bumbling pilot droid in the Disneyland attraction, Star Tours, and reprised the role of Pee-wee Herman in a cameo appearances in the film Back to the Beach and TV show Sesame Street. In 1988, Reubens reprised the role of Pee-wee Herman in a sequel to Pee-wee's Big Adventure, entitled Big Top Pee-wee. Reubens attended 1988 Academy Awards with Top co-star Valeria Golino, which stirred rumours that the two were dating.[25][26] Also that year, "Pee-wee" was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Pee-Wee's legacy

Pee-Wee's small suits seemed hilarious during the 1980s, but since the late 1990s they have made him a "style icon",[27] with fashion houses and designers like Christopher Bailey, Ennio Capasa, Miuccia Prada,[28] Viktor & Rolf,[29] and Thom Browne creating cut tight suits with high armholes and short trousers that have been compared to Pee-Wee's.[30] In early 2007 Nike released a collection of Nike SB sneakers called "Fallen Heroes". The collection was loosely inspired by Milli Vanilli, MC Hammer, Vanilla Ice and Pee-Wee Herman. Pee-Wee's sneakers use a grey and white color scheme with red detail, and an illustration on the insole of a man in suit sitting alone in a theatre with his hand on his lap, suggesting Reubens' 1991 theatre arrest.[31][32]

Fox Family Channel briefly aired reruns of the Playhouse in 1998.[18] In early July 2006, Cartoon Network began running a promo during its Adult Swim lineup. The promo consisted of a black screen with the text, "Remember This?" displayed, while the beginning of the Pee-wee's Playhouse theme song played in the background. The commercial then faded to the text "Coming July 10, 2006." A later press release and many other promos confirmed that the show's 45 original episodes would air on the block Monday to Thursday at 11 P.M. ET starting on that date.[33] However, later on in August 2006, Adult Swim started airing Pee-wee's Playhouse at 12:00 A.M. ET. Playhouse attracted 1.5 million viewers nightly. DVDs and video releases have also been successful.[18]

On Saturday, August 5, 2007 at a showing of Pee-wee's Big Adventure in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, CA, Reubens made an appearance on stage before the show, bringing with him almost the entire cast of the film to the uproarious applause and standing ovation. E.G. Daily (Dotty), Judd Omen (Mickey), Diane Salinger (Simone), Daryl Keith Roach (Chuck the bike shop owner), and Mark Holton (Francis) were all present.

In October 2006, Reubens made a rare public appearance at an east-coast fan convention, "Chiller Theater," with "Pee-wee's Playhouse" co-star, Lynne Marie Stewart. There he donned a gray suit with a bold red necktie, and signed autographed pictures and other memorabilia-- along with posing for photographs with fans.[34]

Arrests and retreat from public eye: 1991–2004

Indecent exposure arrest: 1991

On July 26, 1991, while in town visiting relatives, Reubens was arrested in Sarasota, Florida for masturbating publicly in an adult theater during a screening of Nurse Nancy and Turn up the Heat. This was not Reubens first arrest in the county, being his first time in 1971, for loitering and prowling near and adult theater, charges that were later dropped, and his second time being in 1983 when Reubens was placed on two years' probation for possession of marijuana, although adjudication was withheld.[35] The news media went into a frenzy with this new arrest and the scandal turned both Pee-Wee and Reubens into a punchline. Reubens had not been in character for a year and a half but because CBS was still running reruns of Pee-Wee's Playhouse, Reubens infamous mugshot, which didn't depict the clean-cut look Reubens had shown for the last decade,[36] but a "greasy, bearded freak" with a "scary goatee", shocked the public, many assuming the show had been cancelled because of the arrest.[35][9]

Reubens' attorneys agreed to the offered plea with Reubens pleading no contest, while maintaining his innocence, so as to avoid what would have been a highly publicized trial. The plea kept the charge off Reubens record, and had his pledge to spend at least 75 hours doing community service, making an anti-drug public service announcement that he would write, produce and finance. He also agreed to pay a $50 fine and $85.75 in court costs.[37] The state attorney claimed to be ready to go to trial as they had a video tape incriminating Reubens, but Sarasota County Judge Judy Goldman said she was willing to accept the plea agreement because it spared the county the cost, effort and publicity of a trial.[37] In fact the county had already spent $2,000 in overtime pay for ten deputies who protected Reubens at the courthouse.[35]

Despite the negative publicity and backlash from CBS, many actors that knew Reubens like Annette Funicello, Zsa Zsa Gabor and Valeria Golino spoke out in support of Reubens.[38] Bill Cosby defended Reubens, saying "Whatever (Reubens has) done, this is being blown all out of proportion." Other people that knew Reubens like Playhouse's production designer Gary Panter, S. Epatha Merkerson and Big Top Pee-Wee director Randal Kleiser also spoke out against the way Reubens was being treated by the media.[18][38] Reubens' fans also organized rallies of support. According to Entertainment Weekly, "several dozen vocal Pee-weeites picketed in L.A. and New York [a week later], and 250 demonstrated in San Francisco the following day."[39][40] It was much implied at the time that he had gotten arrested on purpose to "get out from under the Pee-Wee character", allegations Reubens has dismissed many times as ridiculous: "That’s like saying Lana Clarkson shot herself in the face.” (Which is what Phil Spector, the record producer, on trial for her murder, says she did in 2003.)[12]

Reubens made his last appearance as Pee-Wee at the MTV's 1991 Video Music Awards, where he asked the audience, "Heard any good jokes lately?", after the audience gave him a standing ovation Reubens said, "Ha, that's so funny I forgot to laugh!". He appeared as Pee-Wee once more in 1992, when he participated in a Grand Ole Opry tribute to Minnie Pearl.[18][13]

1990s and Blow

During the 1990s Reubens kept a low profile, dedicating himself to write and collect a variety of things, "everything from fake food, to lamps".[20], although he did do some dubbing and took small parts in films such as 1992's Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Tim Burton's Batman Returns, 1996's Matilda and Dunston Checks In and 2000 South of Heaven, West of Hell. In 1993 he dubbed for Lock in another one of Burton's productions, The Nightmare Before Christmas. Reubens also dubbed Lock for the video game The Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie's Revenge. During the mid-1990s Reubens landed a recurring role on the hit TV series Murphy Brown. The role earned him positive reviews and his first and only non-Pee-wee Emmy nomination in the Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series. He appeared six times on the show between 1995–1997.

In 1999 Reubens was in his way to making a comeback, he even started making public appearances and started giving interviews as himself while promoting Mystery Men, the first being at The Tonight Show in 1999.[41] In 2001, Reubens had his first extended television role since the Playhouse as the host of the short-lived ABC TV show You Don't Know Jack, based on the game of the same name. Reubens had doubts about the show, which was considered a risk, but eventually agreed to do it. The show was cancelled after six episodes for low-ratings.[42]

Reubens comeback seemed definitive when he played a flamboyant hairdresser turned drug dealer in Ted Demme's drama Blow, which starred Penelope Cruz and Johnny Depp, his performance was praised and he started getting more scripts than ever before.[43][44]

Child pornography arrest: 2001

In November 2001, while he was filming David La Chapelle's video for Elton John's This Train Don' Stop There Anymore Reubens learned that policeman were at his house with a search warrant, acting on a tip from a witness in the pornography case against Jeffrey Jones.[45] founding among kitsch memorabilia two videotapes and dozens of what the city attorney's office characterized as a collection of child pornography. Kelly Bush, Reubens's PR at the time, said the description of the items was inaccurate claiming the objects were "Rob Lowe's videotape and a few isolated 30- to 100-year-old kitsch collectible images".[46]

Reubens turned himself to the Hollywood Division of the LAPD on Novemeber 15, 2002 and was charged with misdemeanor possession of obscene material improperly depicting a child under the age of 18 in sexual conduct.[47] He was released on $20,000 bail and could at the time face a maximum sentence of one year in prison and a $2,500 fine.[48]

Reubens was represented by Hollywood criminal defender lawyer Blair Berk, who has also represented geneticist and convicted felon William French Anderson, actor Mel Gibson, actress Lindsay Lohan and other celebrities.[49] On December 13, 2002 Reubens pleaded innocent through Berk, who from the beginning seeked to have the charges thrown out. She also complained to court Commissioner that the city attorney's office hadn't turned over its evidence to the defense, which City Attorney Richard Katz countered that prosecutors were not required to do so until after the arraignment, after which they did, although neither side disclosed the contents of the documents.[50]

On March 19, 2004, child pornography charges against him were dropped by Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo after Reubens pleaded guilty to possessing obscene images of minors so as to avoid going to court and risking jail. For the next three years Reubens had to register his address with the sheriff's office and could not be in the company of minors without their parents' permission.[20]

Reubens later stated that he was a collector of "erotic artwork", a collection that includes films, muscle magazines and a sizeable collection of vintage erotica, such as photographic studies of teen nudes.[20] Reubens claimed that what the city attorney's office viewed as pornography, he considered innocent art and that what they described as people underage engaged in masturbation or oral copulation was in fact a judgemental point of view of the nudes which Reubens described as people "one hundred percent not" performing sexual acts.[20]

Said Reubens:

“ Personally, I think we're living in a very scary time. Do we let the legal system decide in a courtroom what's obscene and what's not obscene?(...) One thing I want to make very, very clear, I don't want anyone for one second to think that I am titillated by images of children. It's not me. You can say lots of things about me. And you might. The public may think I'm weird. They may think I'm crazy or anything that anyone wants to think about me. That's all fine. As long as one of the things you're not thinking about me is that I'm a pedophile. Because that's not true. ”

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Prior to his arrest, Reubens had made a guest appearance on the hit TV series Everybody Loves Raymond, playing the role of Amy McDougall's comic-book-obsessed brother (Russel McDougall). His arrest prompted the show's star, Ray Romano, to object to Reubens being a part of the show's cast and actor Chris Elliott was cast as the character of Peter McDougall, apparently a second brother of Amy's, to replace Reubens' role.

Recent activity

In November 2000, Reubens was chairman of the 30th Anniversary Alumni Reunion at his alma mater, CalArts.

He also appeared in the second music video version of The Raconteurs song "Steady, As She Goes". It showed the band in a comical soapbox car race. Reubens played the bad guy who sabotages the race.

On July 30, 2006, Reubens played Rick of the citizen's patrol on the popular Comedy Central show Reno 911!. The character, Rick, wore a red beret with numerous pins on it, a pair of white gloves, and a small cape. Rick always found clues and evidence that the officers would have otherwise never found, usually making them look very novice. He spoke with a scratchy whisper throughout the entire episode until near the end when officer Dangle plays a voice recorder where Rick is making chicken noises and laughs like Pee-wee Herman.

Reubens played a prince on the 30 Rock episode "Black Tie", which aired on February 1, 2007. Paul Reubens played a veteran journalist on the FX series "Dirt". The episodes were titled "The Secret Lives of Altar Girls" (aired Feb. 6, 2007) and "Come Together" (aired Feb. 13, 2007). On February 25th, 2007, Reubens made an appearance on the Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! as the moon in the closing segment of the episode "Cats". Reubens makes a cameo in Reno 911!: Miami as Terry's dad. Reubens appears in The Tripper with David Arquette and Courteney Cox. It was released April 20, 2007. Starting May 2, 2007, Paul Reubens reprised his role as Golly Gopher in the television series based on Re-Animated. He has a recurring role on Chowder as the voice of the character Reuben. Paul has made an appearance on The Andy Milonakis Show in season 3, as "Weird Beard the Weirdly Bearded Weirdsman." He also provided the voice for the character Paul, in the episode "Puddins" of "Tom Goes to the Mayor".[51]

Reubens appeared as the Pee-wee Herman character for the first time since 1992 at Spike TV's 2007 Guys' Choice Awards in June 2007. [52]

Reubens was slated to appear as homeopathic antidepressant salesman Alfredo Aldarisio in the third episode of Pushing Daisies. [53] The role was recast with Raúl Esparza.[54] Reubens instead appeared in the role of Oscar Vibenius in the series' 7th and 9th episodes.

Pee-wee's Playhouse: The Movie

Pee-wee's Playhouse: The Movie is a proposed 2009 film by Paul Reubens, allegedly greenlit by Paramount Pictures.[55]

Reubens' third scripted movie, written at the same time as his adult-oriented Pee-wee script, was announced in late summer 2006. He first announced he had finished the script on the Late Show with David Letterman, and later revealed further details to Time reporter Dennis Van Tine.[56] Filming was expected to start in early 2007. According to IMDb, it is expected for a release in 2009 because of delays with the writer's strike. It is also known that Paul Reubens currently made three scripts relating to this latest film. In a 2004 interview with Entertainment Weekly, Reubens said that he was working on a few television and movie ideas, and that Hollywood, he hoped, had not seen the last of Reubens or his alter ego, Pee-wee. Reubens has also stated a strong possibility of a Pee-wee's Playhouse movie on an NPR interview with Terry Gross on December 27, 2004. A third Pee-wee movie was also suggested. Both, said Reubens, are actively being worked on, but no dates or official announcements were made as of this date. On July 11, 2006, Reubens made a rare talk show appearance to promote Pee-wee's Playhouse on the Late Show with David Letterman, and made mention that a script was completed for a Pee-wee's Playhouse Movie which would take the characters from the 1980s television show out of the playhouse for the first time and into the real world. In a Time interview, Reubens said production would start early next year for the film.[57]

Plot

According to Reubens, the story will focus on the characters from the television show finally leaving the playhouse and venturing off into Puppetland and beyond (the playhouse characters had rarely left the playhouse in the TV series). The characters from the playhouse will be on an epic adventure to look for a missing character from the playhouse. Reubens stated this will be a "road" movie similar to Pee-wee's Big Adventure. It is unknown if the characters will be puppets or Computer Animated.

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NAME Reubens, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pee-wee Herman
SHORT DESCRIPTION American actor, writer and comedian
DATE OF BIRTH Aug 27, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Peekskill, New York
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Reubens"

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