Reread Rolling Stone 1987 cover starring Paul Reubens. 'Who is Pee-wee Herman and why does everyone in America have something to say about him?'
Pee-wee Herman is the creation of an actor named Paul Reubens, who is the creation of a man named Paul Rubenfeld. They’re all thirty-four years old, but Pee-wee doesn’t act it. Paul Rubenfeld’s parents are Judy and Milton Rubenfeld. Pee-wee Herman’s parents are Honey and Herman Herman. Judy Rubenfeld finds her mythical counterpart “real weird. When you’re a Mrs. Reubens or Mrs. Rubenfeld and Mrs. Herman, it gets very confusing.
“My only fear about this subject is that it becomes more of a subject because I’m unwilling to discuss it. The problem, to me, is that I have two names, and beyond that, there’s not much of a story. This feels more right. I’m able to do all the things I want to do with this arrangement much better. There are so many things I would like to do, so many people I probably am, that it becomes a lot less complicated for me.
Today Mr. and Mrs. Rubenfeld are retired. Paul’s sister, Abby, 33, is an attorney and the legal director of the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, a national gay and lesbian civil-rights organization active in fighting discrimination against AIDS victims. His brother, Luke, 28, trains Doberman pinschers, preparing them for what Milton Rubenfeld terms “a black belt in karate for dogs.”. “His father didn’t want him to try out,” Judy Rubenfeld says.
Somewhere along the way, Paul Rubenfeld became Paul Reubens. Living in California, he juggled the aspiring performer’s usual assortment of “between engagements” jobs — as a busboy, a Fuller Brush man, a submarine-sandwich maker, a setup person in the kitchen of a pizza shop.
Pee-wee has similarities to Jerry Lewis and Pinky Lee and Soupy Sales, but he doesn’t seem to come out of any comic tradition. He’s like Beaver Cleaver as raised by Mommie Dearest.Jerry Lewis I saw when I was little. Soupy Sales I probably saw when I was younger. I never knew who Eddie Cantor was until years later, when a lot of older people used to go [an old Russian-Jewish furrier’s accent], “You’re like a young Eddie Cantor.
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