Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-05-24 (Saturday)

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Doctor Who (Disney+) "Wish World"

Pee-Wee as Himself Part One (HBO) This is an excellent documentary about
Paul Reubens.  Reubens started filming it before he died, then the
filmmakers finished it posthumously.  The movie has lots of really funny
interviews of Reubens, and it details his life from before he became
Pee-Wee Herman and had a lot of information about him that I wasn't
aware of or just never thought about.  For example, while I was
generally aware of the fact that the character of Pee-Wee Herman
predates the 1985 movie, "Pee-Wee's Big Adventure," my awareness was
pretty much limited to knowing he had the HBO special.  What I wasn't
aware of was Pee-Wee Herman was well established as a character well
before the movie.  Obviously, that's why they made the movie, but it
never really registered that the character was already famous and
predated the movie by several years.  Also interested was Paul talking
about being bitter and jealous after the success of the movie that it
was all attributed to Tim Burton, when he (and Phil Hartman and Michael
Varhol) are the ones who wrote the movie.  It said written by Paul
Reuben in the credits, but he had spent years making sure no one in the
general public knew who Paul Reubens was, so all the notoriety went to
Burton instead.  And when he said that I realized that I too for all
these years considered "Pee-Wee's Big Adventure" a Tim Burton movie, and
it never crossed my mind that Paul Reubens originated the character and
wrote the script.  And he picked Burton to direct the movie once the
script was finished.  There's at least one more part.  I'm looking
forward to finishing the rest of the documentary once I get a chance.