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...wasn't even funny. It was like Mike Tyson fighting Pee Wee Herman...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Racquetmen Nix Trinity, 9-0 | 12/1/1988 | See Source »

...Just the facts, ma'am.' " Dan Quayle defined himself through the silver screen: "I identify with that movie Hoosiers." New Jersey Governor Thomas Kean sometimes sounded like a disgruntled movie critic: "They ((the Democrats)) may try to talk like Dirty Harry. But they will still act like Pee-wee Herman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Republicans: A Big Time in the Big Easy | 8/29/1988 | See Source »

...Pee- wee is a bright, peppy circus comedy in which America' s child of all ages loses his virginity. Pretty cool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 8/1/1988 | See Source »

...Pee-wee is more of the smart same. Young MacPee-wee has a farm that is a sort of summer camp -- high camp -- for animals. In the barn, the sheep and cow sleep in beds. For breakfast the horse flaps pancakes, and Pee-wee's talking-pig pal devours them. At the hint of a hurricane, Pee-wee leads his brood into the storm cellar ("Women and chickens first!") and dresses them in party hats. Because there are no other humans on the farm and few children nearby, Pee-wee is his own role model, his only playmate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Prince of Prepuberty Grows Up BIG TOP PEE-WEE | 8/1/1988 | See Source »

...news here, and potentially the big problem, is that Big Top simultaneously defines Pee-wee as a child and an adult. He has a fiancee, the sweet, prissy Winnie (Penelope Ann Miller). And when a traveling circus parks on his farm, he falls in lust with an aerialist named Gina (Valeria Golino). Pee-wee's first sexy screen kiss, with the voracious-mouthed Gina, will surely raise temperatures -- though, as Winnie notes sadly, it was inevitable. "You're a man. She's Italian." But what are we to make of Pee-wee's deflowering, symbolized by shots of fireworks, trains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Prince of Prepuberty Grows Up BIG TOP PEE-WEE | 8/1/1988 | See Source »

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