Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The jagged-edged red door, the wagging-armed chair named Chairry, the beatnik jazz band’s brick wall alcove—an entire bustling ...

To love Pee-Herman was a wonderful thing, a silly and liberating thing. Miss Yvonne, actually, looked like a girl who’d gotten lost on her way to the prom a few decades earlier and finally turned up, ...

I do not observe Christmas, and do my best to avoid all its attendant hoopla. And I didn’t grow up watching “Pee-wee’s Playhouse,” a show for which I was a bit outside the target demographic when it ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s been 40 years since Pee-wee Herman lost his bike, and to be honest, we’re still not over it. Released in August 1985, ...

In 1986, one of the most unusual and iconic kids' TV shows debuted. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "PEE-WEE'S PLAYHOUSE THEME") PAUL REUBENS: (As Pee-wee Herman) Hey. CYNDI LAUPER: (Singing) Come in and pull ...

The American actor and performance artist Paul Reubens spent decades in the cloak of his alter ego, the strange, effervescent children’s entertainer Pee-wee Herman. Reubens liked the shadows and the ...

Hello! I’m Mark Olsen. Welcome to another edition of your regular field guide to a world of Only Good Movies. The film is adapted from Akira Kurosawa’s “High and Low,” in which a wealthy businessman ...

It took 40 years, but Pee-wee’s bike is now at the Alamo. Just not the basement. The Alamo announced last week it had acquired and would display the iconic bike from the 1985 Tim Burton film, “Pee-wee ...

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 ...