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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...PEE-WEE'S PLAYHOUSE CHRISTMAS SPECIAL (CBS, Dec. 21, 8 p.m. EST). With Chairry, Globey and gobs of guest stars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Dec. 19, 1988 | 12/19/1988 | See Source »

...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 »

...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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