Word: wee
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...wiry little man-child with a voice that sounded like his novocaine hadn't worn off yet. But children adored Pee-wee Herman (aka Paul Reubens), critics praised him and adults delighted in discovering double-entendres and inside jokes on his Saturday morning kids? TV show Pee-wee?s Playhouse, which ran from 1986 to 1991 on CBS. Pee-wee is back - this time for grown-ups - in all 45 original episodes, airing on Cartoon Network?s Adult Swim Monday thru Thursday nights at 11 p.m. TIME's Jeanne McDowell talked to Reubens about the return of the Playhouse...
...wee?s Playhouse on Adult Swim...
...What was the appeal of Pee-wee?s Playhouse to children...
...Rocky and Bullwinkle and other shows in that vein that I had watched and appreciated as a kid. When I got older I saw all of these things I had never seen before or understood in [those shows]. I think one might see a subtext to Pee-wee?s Playhouse, but I don?t remember thinking about it much. There wasn?t anything in it designed to be hidden or that I didn?t want people...
...Only Human is about as wee as a movie can get. Just 85 minutes long, it is a first feature by a Spanish husband-wife team, Dominic Harari and Teresa De Pelegri, and with the exception of Aleandro it features no one any American has ever heard of. This may be to its advantage - you bring no particular expectations of hilarity to it. The fact that it is Spanish somehow helps, too. Different cultures do things differently than we do, and so we're marginally more acceptant of strange behavior in exotic climes than we are when, say, Owen Wilson...