Paul Reubens — 1952-2023
I… was not a Pee-Wee Herman fan. I simply wasn’t young enough, nor whimsical enough… Big Adventure is still one of the few Tim Burton movies I’ve never seen.
To me, the high point of his career was being the funniest vampire in the film version of Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
And I thought he handled it well, when he became the world’s most famous public masturbator.
He didn’t have an easy run on Planet Earth, but I hope he had a good time now and then.