Thanks to Pee-Wee Herman, Gen X got a stranger and his new documentary is a reminder of that

There are a million memes about how Gen X is a difficult generation, often forgotten, and another million about how we are also an indifferent generation (say what you want, don’t care). Everything “we drank from Khartoum and trained it alone to the dark” formed many children who grew up significantly independently and flexible in the 1980s. But we were also one of the first generations to really be Babis on TV, which also played a big role in the lives of millions of children Latchkey Kids.

This was not until I watched Pee-WE himself, which is the new documentary of Max about the life and profession of Paul Reubens, (also known as Pee-Wee Herman), that he had been fortunate to have grown at a time when a person like Peee-Wee was present in the main current and the idea that something might be strange-and adopted.

Pee-Wee’s strangeness was clear and clear in his films and on TV in Pee-Wee Playhouse. Here was this man who was not repeated in the gray case that lived alone, and whose precious possession was his bike, which shouted every time a secret word was speaking. My house routinely ran out of the Scotch bar as a result of its use to extend my face to a hideous skin mask with an inverted nose, thanks to urination. The character seemed to be someone who was living outside the imaginary life of every child, and this was the initial lot. He was ambitious in his magic.

But what the documentary shows is how the PEE-WEE options were deliberate, especially in creating the CBS Saturday Morning TV Playhouse Pee-Wee. This was an offer that came out of his way to throwing colored actors in prominent roles (including the star of law and system S. Epatha Merkerson and Laurence Fishburne, which appear in DOC), creating an unusual and strange adopted environment. Nothing about any of this was by chance. “I felt as if it were myself,” said Natasha Leon, who appeared in the exhibition as a child. I would like to think that this permission to adopt what others may not consider “naturally” is one of the reasons that make our generation specify a lot with the types whose names speak volumes: substitute music, Inde film, underground comedy. These things were already exist but our generation was the generation he described.

How many other children’s TV shows did Grace Jones star in private Christmas? (The manifestations were also demonstrated by the demonstrations of Charo, Joan Rivers, Kd Lang, Cher, OPRAH WINFRY and Little Richard, an attempt to create multiple levels of entertainment for several generations.

“I put a lot of things in the PEE-Wee play that I thought,” why not? This includes things such as dance in high heels and holding a wedding ceremony between him and a container of fruit salad. (What is more amazing is that although these things were considered thorny at that time, they were not subject to censorship and did not provoke a violent reaction in the way they could be today.)

Pee-Wee Herman was the creation of a performance by an actor who chose not to appear at all in public places until later in his career. This is because Paul Reubens has never allowed anyone to identify him and his creative operation (a fact that he regretted it in the movie), and we did not know at that time about the extent of his mayors and sabotage in his work.

Robbins died in 2023 while he was still in the process of completing the film, and he struggled to abandon the creative control of the document – that it was sweet and he saw him expressing his victories and regretting it in these interviews and not seeing the complete product. I was an urination lover, but after watching the documentary, I am grateful because it ended even in the aftermath of Robbins. It is essential for the Reubens profession; Without it, I do not even know whether I would realize the effect that had many of us the strange little.