Word: wee
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...were such box-office poison, the couple say they intend to keep working together. Perhaps they'll even take a leaf out of JERRY HALL and MICK JAGGER's book of marital adventures. Barely seven months after the Texan temptress called on Princess Diana's divorce lawyer for a wee spot of legal advice, she's three months pregnant with the couple's fourth child. Jagger, 53, already has two grandchildren for his newest offspring to frolic with...
...think about all these questions, but mostly I find myself thinking about Pee Wee Herman. I think about Pee Wee Herman because while the press is busy making nice to the American people for their remarkable tolerance, while a good portion of the American people for their remarkable tolerance, while a good portion of the nation's liberal establishment basks in an afterglow of acceptance and legitimacy, Paul Reubens, the man responsible for the film Pee Wee's Big Adventure and the television show "Pee Wee's Playhouse," continues to hover in a kind of pop culture purgatory...
...perhaps overdoing The Harvard Angle. "Praise and critical attention have been showered on his work from a number of unlikely sources, including The American Museum of the Moving Image. "Also, several serious papers (full of words like 'reify' and references to Lacan) have been published that connect the Pee Wee Herman phenomenon to recent trends in art. Finally, all this attention has spurred the re-release of a collection of 'Pee Wee's Playhouse' episodes on videotape...
Given Pee Wee Herman's persisting popularity and the hordes of fans he has at Harvard (a fact which is convenient if not necessarily true). I ask, "might you be able to set me up for some interview time with Reubens?" Anderson is cordial, but he isn't buying. "Paul rarely does interviews," he explains. "Actually, he doesn't do them at all." Still, he's very sympathetic and even friendly--he promises to forward my interview request and urges me to call him if he doesn't get back to me soon enough...
...give him four business days to pop the question to Pee Wee and for Reubens to mull over his response. Then, bubbling over with anticipation, I give Anderson a Call late in the afternoon. But he's not in his office, I'm told. I call back four times over three days and remarkably, each time he's in a meeting, on the other line or not at his desk. On my fifth call, after I identify myself as a reporter for The Harvard Crimson, something clicks with the women on the other end of the line...