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EW The infamous Florida movie theater case...

PR My criminal attorney [Blair Berk] said to me last night, ''There's probably nobody in history who has had the infamy you've had over two misdemeanors.''

EW Have you worked at all since this last scandal broke?

PR There were definitely some projects that came along in the last two and a half years that I should have been in. But people in the industry wanted to know how this was going to be resolved. And the way I was feeling certainly was not conducive to writing.

EW But now you have projects in development -- like the series you're writing and starring in for Showtime.

PR I pitched it as Jose Eber in the 1860s Wild West. It's going to be a half-hour comedy series starring me as a cowboy with beautiful long hair. And I have two Pee-wee scripts. There's a company that still wants to make Pee-wee movies. I have one script that's a bit darker -- my Valley of the Dolls Pee-wee -- that could end up getting made.

EW So you're starting on another comeback.

PR For a long time, I was almost purely motivated by ''There's got to be a better ending to my story.'' I thought if they're preparing my E! True Hollywood Story, Part 2, I want it to have a better ending. During the first month after it happened, I just kept saying over and over again, how do you come back from this? Does anyone come back from this? I don't know the answer to that. But I'll be damned if I'm going to let this destroy me.

Originally posted Apr 09, 2004 Published in issue #759 Apr 09, 2004 Order article reprints
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