Pee-wee (from Peekskill) to ride again?
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I’m a child of the 80s, so Pee-wee’s Playhouse was a big part of my youth. However, it’s been 16 years (or approximately 602 very lonely Saturday mornings) since Pee-wee’s gone away. And since Mr. Herman, aka Paul Reubens, was found enjoying a movie at a South Florida theater a bit too much back in 1991, the actor has kept an extremely low profile. Now, 54, the Peekskill native has given a rare interview to The New York Times, telling Ruth La Ferla that “the public already knows about me more than I ever wanted it to know.�
And talk about a difficult interview subject:
To this day, he is skittish, deflecting questions with a stream of diversionary chatter. Mischievously, he showed off his Casio watch, set to buzz at the end of two hours o signal that time was up. He confided having dreamt about this interview, or more precisely about the tape recorder he imagined would be used. Why, he wondered was it not attached to some sort of winding umbilical cord with a microphone at one end, and at the other, the reporter, seated at a respectful distance at the far side of the room.
Hmm, good point, Pee-wee. That said, the one great nugget to come from the story:
Though the past still rankles, Mr. Reubens is not quite ready to retire Pee-wee Herman. He hopes to secure financing for a third Pee-wee movie…a cautionary tale in which Pee-wee descends on Hollywood and becomes a rock star rotten with fame.‘It’s kind of like crunch time now,’ he said of the project. ‘I feel like I can’t put this off too much longer.’ Wait too long, he fretted, and all the digital retouching in the world would not mask the effects of age.
(AP Photo/Matt Sayles)ÂÂ
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It’s easier to picture a 54-year-old Paul Reubens pulling off another sequel as Pee-Wee Herman than a 64-year-old Harrison Ford breaking out the whip for another “Indiana Jones” movie. I mean, 76-year-old Sean Connery is more likely to pull that off convincingly.
“We named the dog Indiana!”
I heard Mr. Reubens has been seen recently on the Comedy Central show Reno 911.
It’s true. Mr. Reubens played a character who was alledgedly part of a “Citizen’s Patrol” force lending a helping hand to some inept detectives. However, a few episodes later, however, it was revealed that he was, in fact a serial killer(really great episode if you’re into sketch comedy).