See Pee-Wee Herman now at 70
Paul Reubens plays the character he has created for over 40 years.
You may not immediately recognize the namePaul Reubens, but you undoubtedly know his alter-ego,Pee-Wee Herman. Created by Rubens during his days as an improvisation actor in theEarly 1980s, the Eternal Manchild, whose infectious innocence and exaggerated behavior seduced children and adults with an appreciation for the camp, finally took place in a stage show, a special HBO program, a children's program at 15 Resumption at the Emmy Emmy ,,,, three films on the big screen and immortality of pop culture.
Outside the screen and off the emblematic gray suit, Rubens' life has not always been so sunny - but that his career as an artist has almost derailed by two sex scandals, his heritage continues. Continue to read to learn what happened to him afterPlay-Wee's Playhouse ended in 1990 and see him now, at 70 years old.
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His career was derailed by controversy.
At the height of his fame as a pee, Rubens' career was almost canceled by an incident in July 1991. The interpreter was arrested in an adult cinema in Sarasota, Florida, by a police officer on the cover and accused of indecent behavior.
Almost overnight, reruns ofPlay-Wee's Playhouse have been withdrawn from television - although the program has already ended the production, the arrest led CBS to withdraw it from the syndication - and the toy stores have removed the pee -off dolls. After pleading any competitions in the accusations, Rubens was sentenced to community service, but damage to his reputation was caused. He has become a punchline on end-of-evening talk shows, and despiteCelebrity support AsCyndi Lauper (which interpreted the song theme playhouse) andthe public, the actor and the actor withdrew from the public's eyes, refusing totalk about his arrest in interviews.AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
He organized a return as a character actor.
Throughout the 90s, Rubens kept a low profile while continuing to play in small roles in films, especiallyBuffy against vampires,,Batman returns,,Matilda, andThe nightmare before Christmas. He obtained critical praise for a recurring role in the successful sitcomMurphy Brown, in which he played the secretary toCandice Bergen Holder journalist. Reubens appeared in six episodes and was nominated for an Emmy for the exceptional guest actor in 1995.
Towards the end of the decade, he seemed to emerge under the cloud of scandal, winning a role in the parody of superheroes of 1999Mysteries And carry onThe Tonight Show with Jay Leno To promote the film. In 2001, he hosted the short -term games gameYou don't know Jack and gained praise for playing a flamboyant drug dealer in the crime dramaBlow, withJohnny Depp.
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He was arrested a second time.
Just as his career seemed to be recovering, Rubens was again arrested in 2002 and accused of offensepossession of obscene material, what the actor insisted was only a few poorly characterized images drawn from his large collection of vintage erotic and weight training magazines. He pleaded guilty but argued that the equipment was harmless.
"I didn't really think of myself, Wow it's my frightening and strange things that I shouldn't collect. It's not titillations," he told NBC News in 2004. "You can say a lot about me. And you could. The audience may think I'm weird. They may think I'm crazy or everything that anyone wants to think of me. That's good. As long as one of the things That you do not think of me, is that I 'a pedophile. Because it is not true. "
He continued to work regularly on television.
Despite his problems with the law, Rubens continued to work, appearing throughout the 2000s in guest roles in shows, especiallyReno 911!,,30 rock,,Marguerite,,The blacklist, andDirt.
He has also become a regular voice -up artist, expressing charactersThe Smurfs films and, on television, inBatman: the brave and the fat,,Adventure time,,Kung Fu Panda,,Star Wars Rebels,,American father,,Voltron, and others. He also contributed to his voice to video games likeMinecraft andCall of Duty.
Its most recent television appearances include roles onGotham,,Connecs, andWhat we do in the shade More relays onFoundation of the celebrity family andCelebrity fortune wheel.
He returned to play Pee-Wee on the stage and the screen.
Although Pee-Wee was an icon from the 80s, Rubens never left it behind. After his legal problems were in the rear view mirror in the middle of the 00 years, he began to discuss the plans to relaunch the character in a third feature film, while the original series startedbroadcasting in reruns on the cartoon network And found a new audience on DVD.
Before a film can occur, however, Pee-Wee returned at the beginning of his start: the scene. In 2009, Rubens relaunchedThe show Herman Pee-Wee In Los Angeles, and the following year, production moved to Broadway for a limited race. One of the performances was recorded for posterity and broadcast on HBO, just as the original stage show had three decades earlier.
In 2015, Netflix finally released this new film,The Great Pee-Wee Holidays, To Road Movie Adventure co-written by Reubens and produced byJudd Apatow. Despite the long absence of the character from the screen, the film was warmly received by the critics, winning a score of80% on rotten tomatoes. "I tried to ... be evocative of [Pee-Wee's great adventure], to be influenced in one way or another, "said Reubens at Screencrush." But Paul Rust, the co-scriptwriter, and I really tried not to copy anything and not do itlooks like a recutation. ""
