One of the pivotal turns in Paul Robbins had happened years before Pee-Wee Herman, years before “Playhouse”, years before arrest. This was the mid -seventies, and Robins was in his early twenties, and he is a fry of bohemian arts outside Calret, with long hair, greasy and incomplete beard. It can be appropriate in between John WatersThe eccentric band – in fact, was not taken unlike the man who has sex with direct chicken in “Flamingos Pink”. At the Arts School, he was the fiercest wilderness, behaving in a student in the nymph of the sea inspired by Sher and embraces his colleagues in kissing Valentine’s Day. He had plans to join the angels of light, a branch of the killing radical band in the Cocate, and began to lead the country through his parents ’home, in Sarasota, Florida, to San Francisco. Robins recalls in the movie “Pee-WEe himself”, a documentary HBO documentary of two parts in “Pee-Wee himself”, a documentary HBO documentary of two parts of two parts: “I was on a road to be underground.”
He did not reach San Francisco. In Los Angeles, he went to a party and spotted a wonderful black young man, a painter called the man, and was immediately fascinated. They became a couple and moved together in the Echo Park. Jay usually had a tasting and saying, “I i, chocolate!” Or “mmm, butte!”-The little adopted later as Pee-Wee-IM. Robbins was so immersed in the relationship, to the extent that he had followed his personality and ambition, both of whom were huge. “I made a conscious decision and went, I am not doing this again,” said Matt Wolf, who directed the documentary. “I’m not just Not I will be gay publicly, but I will not be in a relationship. I would have strengthened my career, because I could control it. “He returned to the cabinet and stayed there, more or less, until his death, In 2023.
What if Robbins did not fall in love? What if he had arrived in San Francisco? He may have read it like that Rumi MissaboThe Avant-Garde Drag Exhibitionist from The Cockkettes, known as experimental films such as “Girls in Bondage”. Perhaps his anti -culture tribe was found in Castro, and he may have become a victim AIDS A epidemic (as the man did, after he and Robbins separated). Instead, he directed his chaotic instincts to a package equivalent to Hollywood. Join the La Comedy The Groudlings collection, where one of his characters was Pee-Wee Herman, a clean man with a red tie, a very narrow suit, and the combustible energy of a young, over active boy. After a failed test of “Saturday Night Live” (when Gilbert Gottfrid saw, he knew that there was no room for both), he organized “The Pee-Wee Herman Show” as late at night at Grounings Theater. The character became a sense, moving to Roxy, then to HBO, then to the large screen (“Pee-Wee Big Adventure,” directed by Tim Burton), then to the TV that follows on Saturday, where his work-which is a symptom show of fifty TV shows such as “Howdy DOODY”-is an actual display of children. “I was a performance artist in the prevailing pop culture.”
to pee He was Performance art, to a large extent because Reubens made another pivotal decision: Paul Robbins disappears from public life and urinate as a real person. “I decided that I no longer follow the profession of Paul Robbins,” said Wolf. “I was following the Pee-Wee Herman profession.” Early, he saw an advertisement for the contestants in “The Dating Game” and joined Pee-Wee (such as Bachelor’s degree No. 3, he really won). Pee-WEe began to appear in the Lee Leonard’s CNN, and eventually became fixtures at the “late night with David Letterman”, where the Deadpan hosts are completely matched.
But there was a price to divide himself into two parts. One day, given that the Roxy show was big, Robbins stood across the street and stared at the name of Pee-WEe on the pavilion, and they are fulfilled in his dreams of stardom-then he was attacked by anxiety. “I realized that there is a lot that you can hide behind the changing ego,” said Wolf. By the time when “Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure”, in 1985-emerged one-time re-defamation and anonymous-began to feel jealous about the character he launched. Few knew that Paul Robbins was credited as a co -writer, the man behind Paul Wei. (After three years, Pee-Wee-not Paul-Star on a celebrity walked, a fact that he seemed to be tempted.)
Referring to faust, but Reubens’s relationship with the changing ego reminded me of another legend: the Creator’s relationship that loses control of his creation. Rabbi and Julim, Dr. Frankstein and his monster, the world and Siburg. Often, these creations embody the harmful identifier that we suppress in another way, making them more named. This is true in the dolls, as well; Think of the generous Edgar Bergen and his doll, Charlie McCarthyOr from Jim Hinson, soft and anti -antibiotics. It is not a coincidence that “Pee-Wee Playhouse” was inhabited by the dolls (Chairry, Pterri, Globey) who lived equally with their human host. Pee-WEe was a kind of meat and blood doll, which Reuben was manipulated as if it were in invisible strings.
The relevant cup is Doppelgängr, whose history dates back to Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s.DualAnd Robert Luis StevensonThe strange issue of Dr. Gakel and Mr. HydeAs my colleagues Note Recently, critics in the large podcast, it seems that Doppelgängers is everywhere in the pop culture these days, from “Innies” rebel “from”to cutDimi Moore the young alternative in “in” “”Article“In Oscar Wilde”Dorian Gray photo– Now on Broadway, in a wonderful theater starring starring Sarah Snock– The character of the Callow title maintains his youth and beauty while playing his ugliness in a magic image hidden in the attic. Doppelgängers embody what we fear or want ourselves, and the verb of Pee-WEE alike: it was heinous, was reckless, and was strange in multiple senses, and most importantly, he was famous.
When I am He was met Reubens for the Talk of the Town a decade and a half ago, where he was planning to return Pee-Wee, I am surprised how it was, unlike Doppelgängr Jose. We met almost empty dinner off Hollywood Street, and was wearing a calculator. And he said in his proximity: “What place I went to, people were calling me a Bo.” “I went out of my way to add that, because I thought it was betterly conceptual if people were not walking,” this is a representative. “
After “Pee-Wee Playhouse” has finished five seasons, Robins took a break in his parents ’house, in Florida. There was, in 1991, he was arrested for inappropriate exposure at the adult films theater. (In fairness, how are you supposed to kill the time when your parents visit Sarasota?) Which competition, to avoid advertising for trial, but the damage happened. The snapshot of the mug-with a long and threaded hair, was sprayed, such as the leaf of artistic schools that were one day-through newspapers. It was especially because the audience has not yet met Paul Robbins. “I kept a secret for a very long time, and this has served me well, as I wanted it,” Robbins told Wolf. “After that, it didn’t happen. I really fired when I was arrested and never saw a picture of me, unlike Pee-Wee Herman-and then, suddenly, I received a snapshot at Charlie Manson. I lost control of the lack of disclosure of my identity, and it was destroyed.”
“Control” is the logical word, which comes again and again in “Pee-WEe himself”. Reubens was controlling his films and TV shows, all the way to the smallest interruption details in “Playhouse” Opening topic. This can occupy his collaborators. “Paul was inconsistent with most of everyone who worked with them,” said one of the artists who worked on “Pee-Wee Playhouse” for WOLF. “This was just his nature. It was such a perfection and is very driven to make something important.” Reubens need to control the documentary itself, which is interspersed with the definition moments of retreat against the director. “It turns out that you are not really supposed to direct your documentary.”
