Paul Reubens DEAD

[Art Decade]

Paul Reubens, actor best known as Pee-wee Herman, dies at 70

He rose to fame in the 1980s playing the whimsical, child-like character on TV and in movies.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[ButterTart]

No! I was reading about him a few days back; he was BRILLIANT in 30 Rock.

 

[Hard Rock Ag-elujah]

I hope there's a good dirty cinema wherever he goes.

 

[Hard Rock Ag-elujah]

He wasn't especially famous in the UK. At a guess the stories that surround are probably more well known during the Internet era.

 

[Pipo]

RIP. One of my first childhood-era icons.

I always found it very telling how Pee Wee Herman was a property that nobody else would touch to either relaunch or remake it, *that* scandal really did end him.

 

[COB]

RIP The Pee Wee's Playhouse Christmas sync watch was one of my favourite Moopy lockdown memories.

 

[Indie]

I really liked him in Blow. Rip etc.

 

[C’est la VoR]

Yeah I only really knew him from the scandal. For years I assumed he'd been caught with child porn or something. I felt sorry for him when I twigged that all he'd done was have a wank in a cinema. WHO HASN'T?

 

[dzjermlaw]

Yeah I only really knew him from the scandal. For years I assumed he'd been caught with child porn or something. I felt sorry for him when I twigged that all he'd done was have a wank in a cinema. WHO HASN'T?

I don’t know. There was a lot of whining when I did it during the first ten minutes of ‘Up’.

 

[Hard Rock Ag-elujah]

There was a dodgy porn thing years after the cinema thing, but that was debatable.

 

[COB]

This was quite iconic to me as a child who went through a phase of repeatedly renting this film from Blockbuster:

 

[ManicKangaroo]

Very sad. Didn't realise he was 70

 

[KNT]

That cinema 'scandal' was ludicrous. It was a PORN THEATRE, what were the police EXPECTING people to be doing there? He wasn't jacking off at a screening of 'The Bodyguard'.

 

[lolly]

Very sad. Didn't realise he was 70

Surprised me, but then I remember working in a video shop in the late 80s, and Pee Wee's Big Adventure being a few years old at the time so it figures.

I hated it and had no interest in anything he did since.

 

[TiShh]

Thinking of Chairy at this sad time

 

[C’est la VoR]