Man WTF I idolized him as a kid growing up watching PeeWee’s Playhouse and the PeeWee movies. Even though he was as old as my parents, it feels like a childhood friend died. I did not expect to be so upset by this.
So is he a child molestor? I never have been able to figure out the news about him.
What? He was caught wanking off at a wanking off theater.
From the article
Then in 2004, Reubens was sentenced to three years probation after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor obscenity charge involving photographs of minors engaged in sexual conduct were seized from him
Apparently they were rob lowes sex video tapes and antique collectables. https://web.archive.org/web/20100830071650/http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/gossip/2003/01/10/2003-01-10_pee-wee_says_his_porn_was_le.html
I actually didn’t either, I only knew of the original theatre incident, only learned the part about the pictures today.
I think there was some vendetta things happening to him for some reason. Is he gay or something? I don’t even know but it really sounds like a set up if you look at the sources from his wikipedia page during that time.
There was apparently some homoerotic subtext in the Netflix special? Not sure.
Those charges were later dropped.
He has had 1 or 2 incidents involving child pornography of some sort (which I’m not underplaying lol), but as far as molesting, not that we know.
Edit: https://ew.com/article/2002/11/18/paul-pee-wee-reubens-charged-kid-porn-probe/
You can read about those charges here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Reubens#2002_pornography_arrest
They were eventually dropped.
i heard BonesOfTheMoon sucks off armadillos… i don’t know anything about that… just what i heard, man…
armadillos, man… under a viaduct in the Florida panhandle… but that’s just what i heard…
He whacked off in a porn theater afaik. So no. Weird though but I don’t know what else there is to do in a porn theater.
It was the 90’s, before the internet and he had a thing for pornography. The pussycat theatre was specifically an adult theatre that showed pornography, three other men were arrested with him, presumably because that what people went to the theatre for.
No, he was caught jerking off in a porn theater and charged with public indecency. In my opinion the whole thing was blown out of proportion and a stain on his legacy that doesn’t deserve to be there. People just hear “sex crimes” and “children’s performer” and come to that assumption. (No shade to you, its a fair assumption. I more have a problem with how the media handled it at the time)
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You should probably continue on with the quotes a bit longer.
“That mischaracterizes the art collection seized,” Reubens’ lawyer, Blair Berk said Friday. “If that means a black-and-white tintype from 1901 with a young man of indeterminate, 17- to 19-year-old age, laying on the beach after having gone skinny-dipping … then they got it.”
“It was clear from the start that we, along with the many distinguished art experts supporting Paul’s art photography collection, vehemently disagreed with the city prosecutor’s view of what constitutes art,” Berk said.
From the same article you linked.
I don’t care about the wanking, but the CP possession charge is hard to ignore.
It’s easy to ignore when it was dropped. Charges are not convictions.
IIRC he never claimed to not own CP; He was charged and there was legitimate evidence of dozens of CP materials. His legal defense was that he buys bulk lots of kisch art and wasn’t aware the offending material was in there. He would later in 2004 (after charges were dropped in exchange for a obscenity charge) claim that he was aware of the CP; but he only owned it for as he also collected vintage Erotica; and he further claimed the CP was “innocent nudes” and in no way pornographic in nature. Not being charged doesn’t mean he didn’t actually own the offending materials.
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I’ll always remember Zyzzybalubah…
I’m 40 now. I freaking loved PeeWee when I was a kid. This hurts. I’m hoping when I get to the pearly gates I hear “Ha ha! Ahhh!”. Probably want to see my grandma first now that I think about it.
Large Marge has her passenger back.
They can roam the highways together for all eternity.
Pee Wee’s Big Adventure has gotten even more absurd and hilarious to me as I’ve gotten older; it both aged well and has grown funnier with time (nearly 40 years!)
Jambi, I know exactly what to wish for. :( Really sad seeing your childhood pop culture figures dying.
Anyone remember this movie?
Midnight Madness!
Yes! Finally! No one remembers that movie anymore, but I love it.
One of my favorites. And we’re not alone…
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That kind of thing happens quite often when a celebrity no longer has an agent.
The family don’t think to inform the press.
Jerking off in heaven?
Reubens also helped start the careers of Phil Hartman and Laurence Fishburne, which is pretty neat.
Wild man. I remember watching Pee-wee’s Playhouse as a kid on those Saturday mornings oh so long ago. https://youtu.be/UsmFg7CD1Pg
Watching the PeeWee Herman Show special on HBO blew my mind as a young adult. What a talent, and stunted career in the end. We loved you Paul.
This is awesome.
he was art school college roommates with Hasselhoff… wait what?
I’m surprised the hoff went to art school actually
some hot chicks in art school in Cali, bro
Lol they are in all the art schools. Art school is awesome
Holy shit!
“He died on April 3rd.”
DOUBLE holy shit!Where does it say that? Article is dated for today and the quote says his team shared the news on Monday, which I presume they mean today.
That’s what RodneyCK was saying.
