APEngine » Playhouse http://www.apengine.org Moving image transmission: driving debate and ideas around the moving image, film, art, animation and everything else. Mon, 05 Sep 2011 12:24:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Pee-wee’s Playhouse http://www.apengine.org/2009/12/pee-wees-playhouse/ http://www.apengine.org/2009/12/pee-wees-playhouse/#comments Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:30:24 +0000 abigail http://www.apengine.org/?p=3408 peewee.com

peewee.com

It’s Christmas in the Playhouse. And our hearts are all aglow.

26 July 1991. We thought it was the day the magic died. Paul Reubens, looking like Ted Kazcynski’s madder brother, was “arrested in Sarasota, Florida for masturbating publicly in an adult theater” (source Wikipedia).  No more Pee-wee?!

But he’s back! With a live show in LA (where else…), and doing the rounds of US chat shows. It is a little disconcerting seeing Reubens at 56 doing the Pee-wee routine, but queasiness was always part of the fun.

And fun though Tim Burton’s movie certainly is, it’s the unrestrained joy and insanity of the TV show, with lots of clips on the site… and YouTube… that we really cherish.

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