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‘Pee-wee as Himself’ Review: The Late Paul Reubens Opens Up — When He Doesn’t Close Up — in an Expansive Portrait

Matt Wolf's two-part documentary gives the man behind Pee-wee Herman a platform to come out of the closet, but doesn't mask the tension between the filmmaker and a subject with understandable trust ...
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‘Pee-wee as Himself’ Director on His Attempts to Gain Paul Reubens’ Trust: ‘There Was a Real Power Struggle Between Us’

In the opening sequence of Matt Wolf’s HBO documentary series “Pee-wee as Himself,” the late artist and performer Paul Reubens mulls over who should have control of a celebrity documentary. “It turns ...