Thighs Wide Shut

Pee-wee’s Big Adventure is the best.  STILL the best.  Saw it the other night and it is STILL a fcuking amazing adventure.  ‘Big’ as an adjective doesn’t even begin to cover its giantness of how truly massive it truly is.  Truly.  Seriously.  TRULY SERIOUSLY!!!

Anywho, I dug up some odds and ends, after digging thru the Big Adventure IMDb page…

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this is what Large Marge (aka Alice Nunn) looked like as a younger lady.  she actually died 3 years after Big Adventure‘s release

when I saw the movie in theaters as a 7 year old, the part where she went all bugged-eyed caused my penis to invert, right into my body – and I coined the term ‘reverse boner‘.  I swear, this happened!  And I swear I invited this term!  although probably not at age 7

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remember Pee-wee’s gadgety house with Rube Goldbergian machinery?

it was apparently heavily influenced by the ‘Snub’ Pollard short film from 1923 called It’s a Gift

woah!!!!

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Amazing Larry (Lou Cutell) and Mario (Monte Landis) are both still alive!

Larry is 86 and Mario is 83!  Madam Ruby is still alive too and played David Silver’s granny on 90210!

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the giant Dinosaurs still stand

but the Wheel Inn Restaurant next to them has closed

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Elvira is in the movie!

credited with her lesser-known real name - Cassandra Peterson, although a picture of her as Elvira is also in the movie

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Dottie aka E.G. (Elizabeth) Daily

was so super sexy cute adorable in the 80s. she went topless two years earlier in Valley Girl [NSFW]

and also was the sultry singer at the big dance in Better Off Dead

later in life, she kept her inner-child going by providing the voice of the pig Babe, Tommy Pickles on ‘Rugrats‘ and Buttercup on ‘The Powerpuff Girls‘, and piped her pipes on ‘The Voice’!

she and Morgan Fairchild (who played the big screen version of Dottie) finally met on the set of the 2011 film Boy Toy

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the Santa Monica Mall/Third Street Promenade was not only home to Chuck’s Bike-O-Rama and Mario’s Magic shop, but also to Pretty In Pink‘s record store Trax, and numerous other filmed entertainments 

sadly, it doesn’t look like the 80s or Tim Burtony or Pee-wee-y anymore

btw – these ‘then & now’ Big Adventure filming location photos are beyond BLAMMMAZIN!!!  YOU HAVE TO LOOK AT EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM.  I COMMAND YOU!!!

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Francis Buxton‘s father - Ed Herlihy was famous for his voice - the voice of newsreels, and Kraft!

he played an announcer/newscaster in Zelig, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, The King of Comedy, and Malcolm X

and he was also in Police Academy 2!

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the director of the orphan-nun movie - Zack Hoffman

was also the voice of GI Joe‘s Zartan!

FCUKING ZARTAN!!! Zartan was so rock n roll!!!

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ten 1953 Schwinn DX bikes were built for the film – and this one was sold (in pieces) for $36,600 back in March of 2014

no word on its current owner or status, but lets hope it has a good home

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the guy who played Warner Bros studio chief Terry Hawthorne - Tony Bill

is an actor (Shampoo), director (Untamed Heart) and producer, who won an Oscar for producing 1973’s The Sting!!!!!

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one the BMX biker kids - David Glasser 

is an up and coming movie producer

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two wrestlers wrestled with Pee-wee…

Big John Harris/Silo Sam

and Professor Tanaka (a tag team partner of Mr Fuji)

no word on if the two ever wrestled each other!

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Playhouse pals, and players in the original Pee-wee Herman Show stage production - Jambi (John Paragon), Miss Yvonne (Lynne Marie Stewart) and Mailman Mike (John Moody) all had bit parts in the movie

along with OG member and the film’s co-writer Phil Hartman + the film’s other co-writer Michael Varhol.  Edie McClurg was in the original stage show, and her brother Bob played a security guard in the movie

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two dudes must have made some impression on Tim Burton that they appeared in his next film – Beetlejuice

Carmen Filpi

and Simmy Bow

both are in the afterlife now, along with these cast members

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Simone (Diane Salinger) and Pee-wee didn’t say ‘au revoir‘ for long, as they reunited to play the Penguin’s parents – the Cobblepots in Burton’s Batman Returns!!!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dkoi4z_dQso

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Francis (Mark Holton) hasn’t had a credited role since 2008, which is a shame cause the guy is simply incredible

but he’s still around… and as of 2015, he’s never visited the Alamo (which apparently now has 2 basements!!!)

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Pee-wee’s Big Adventure is one of my dad’s all time favorite movies.  same here.  we have good taste.  if you made it this far, you probably do too!

The Pee-Wee Herman Show
The Stephen Sondheim Theatre
now thru January 2nd
websight

Do call it a comeback, a long overdue one, interrupted by some personal downfalls, but that’s all now juss a bunch of jizz on a porno theater floor water under the bridge!!!!  If you believe in magic, well magic is very much alive at The Stephen Sondheim Theatre this fall thanks to the manchild in the gray suit, red bowtie and white shoes.  Pee-Wee (bless you Paul Reubens) may have left us for awhile, but he never really left us.  And how could he?  Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure and Pee-Wee’s Playhouse are timeless classics worth revisiting for generations to come, and so was his original stage production from 1981, which has now been updated with much modern flair (& rightfully includes the Playhouse TV gang) almost 30 years after the fact!!!  Even the original Miss Yvonne (Lynne Marie Stewart), Jambi (John Paragon) and Mailman Mike (John Moody) are along for the ride and they shine on like the crazy diamonds they once were.  Larry Fishburne wasn’t able to re-saddle-up as Cowboy Curtis, but don’t worry, he rides on, and so do Chairry, Pterri, Globey, Conky, The King of Cartoons, Penny and everything else you know and love from the wonderland of Puppetland (we forgot about those Coronet Educational Films)!!!

Our father is one of the biggest Pee-Wee fans we know, and after he saw the show in LA, he said it might not have been the most funny thing he’s ever seen, but it was a dream come true to see him do his thing under the proscenium.  Well, he was wrong about one thing, the show is uproarious (in terms of awful puns, sexual innuendo, and childlike glee)!!!  If Pee-Wee ever brought joy into your life at some point in time, do yerself a flavor and let him do it for you again.  We love him so much, we may juss have to marry him!!!

And if not him, how bout Naomi from Lost?!?!

+ if you see the show, he unintentionally gives a Thigh Master shout out!!!