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By CURT SCHLEIER<\/p>\n
(JTA) \u2014 Thirty-five years after his breakthrough film \u201cPee-wee\u2019s Big Adventure,\u201d and 29 years after that notorious incident in a Florida adult movie theater, Paul Reubens is back.<\/p>\n
The comedian known as Pee-wee Herman is embarking on 25-city, two-month tour that will take him across the country. Each performance on the tour will be followed by a screening of \u201cPee-wee\u2019s Big Adventure.\u201d<\/p>\n
But get ready for even more of everyone\u2019s favorite innocent man-child bedecked in a suit two sizes too small, with the signature red bow tie and Schwinn bike: Other possible Pee-wee projects are in the works.<\/p>\n
This was in The Hollywood Reporter last week:<\/p>\n
He\u2019s at work on a radio project \u2014 something akin to a Pee-wee podcast \u2014 and is in talks to develop an animated series centering on Pee-wee and the puppets from his old TV show\u2019s Puppetland. Most intriguing of all, he\u2019s been pitching studios on \u201cThe Pee-wee Herman Story,\u201d a very un-Pee-wee-sounding screenplay that takes his puckish TV persona into dark and unexpected territory (Pee-wee gets sent to a mental hospital for shock treatment for his alcoholism, no joke).<\/p>\n
The latter part of that could be inspired by Reubens\u2019 real life darkness, which includes two arrests \u2014 in 1991 for public indecency and in 2002 for owning child pornography.<\/p>\n
While he had some celeb defenders \u2014 including Bill Cosby \u2014 the arrest essentially ended his career. Reubens made occasional public appearances, but became more of a cult figure.<\/p>\n
Reubens \u2014 whose father was one of the founding members of the Israeli Air Force \u2014 reprised the Pee-wee character in a 2016 Netflix film.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople have argued I have done everything consciously or unconsciously to destroy [the character], but it\u2019s a brand that won\u2019t die,\u201d he told The Hollywood Reporter.<\/p>\n