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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sure enough, after my last final that spring, I sprinted from last final as fast as I could, giddier than Pee-Wee Herman at an all-day peep show...

Author: By Jay K. Varma, | Title: That Problem Set Doesn't Really Matter Much | 7/3/1992 | See Source »

...Burton felt these burdens -- or the onus of topping himself after four films (Pee-wee's Big Adventure, Beetlejuice, Batman, Edward Scissorhands), all of them critical and popular hits -- he didn't show it. No screaming, no broken crockery. "He's the most un-Hollywood person I've ever met," says his co-producer, Denise Di Novi, who believes Burton's breakthrough came with Scissorhands, another Christmas phantasmagoria about lonely creatures making sad magic in the snow. "He connected with himself," she says, "and his art became much more intimate." Now, without Batman producers Peter Guber and Jon Peters hovering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battier and Better | 6/22/1992 | See Source »

Burton's gift is to make movies about beguiling outsiders -- the dead couple reclaiming their home in Beetlejuice, the deformed snow sculptor Edward Scissorhands, even the childlike Pee-wee Herman (Paul Reubens plays the Penguin's father here). Burton inverts pictures and fictions, and makes it seem as if he has just turned them right side up. In Batman Returns, everything is familiarly topsy-turvy. Black is good -- Batman, of course -- and white or bright is bad. Max, the rapacious industrialist, has a Stokowskian white mane that helps Gothamites think of him as Santa Claus, though Selina derisively calls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battier and Better | 6/22/1992 | See Source »

...adventures visits the men's room of the White House, where the President has a painful encounter with his fly zipper; in the same episode, the Pope (voiced by Zappa) gets lost in Antarctica. In another show, Ren and Stimpy play their favorite board game, Don't Pee on the Electric Fence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Loonier Toon Tales | 4/13/1992 | See Source »

...Pee-wee Herman's as he resurfaced at the televised MTV Music Video Awards show for the first time since his arrest: "Heard any good jokes lately?" Fans suggested that next time he stay home and amuse himself with some of Clarence Thomas' video favorites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best of 1991 | 1/6/1992 | See Source »

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