Paul Reubens: From starring in Tim Burton’s debut movie to being canceled for masturbating in a porn theater

Paul Reubens: From starring in Tim Burton’s debut movie to being canceled for masturbating in a porn theater

There were 40 hours of interviews. But even with 1,500 pages of transcripts, the subject of this documentary didn’t open up about the most mysterious chapters of his life. In fact, he didn’t even tell the crew that he’d been battling cancer for six years. And, in 2023, before filming was even finished, Paul Reubens died. Even so, Pee-wee as Himself (HBO Max) is not an unfinished work, and manages to surprisingly explore the rise to stardom, and …