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Although he’ll forever be a child at heart,Paul Reubensis celebrating a major milestone birthday.
ThePee-wee Hermanstar rang in his 70th birthday on Saturday with a flood of social media tributes from fans and some iconically famous friends, includingElvirastarCassandra Peterson, Cyndi Lauper and more.
“Happy Birthday @peeweeherman!” Peterson, 70, wrote with a black-and-white throwbackphotoof the two of them in costume as their respective characters. She famously appeared in his 1985 moviePee-wee’s Big Adventure.
Lauper, 69, shared a clip from a 1980s news segment, featuring herself and the birthday boy playing miniature golf. “Happy Birthday Paul!” she captioned thepost. Lauper sang the theme song for Reubens' hit 1986 showPee-wee’s Playhouseas Biker Mama.
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Ricki Laketook to Instagram with a throwback of herself and Reubens in ’70s garb. “Happy 70th Birthday to my friend @peeweeherman!!! #paulreubens The world is a much more magical place with you in it. Love you,” Lake, 53,wrotein the caption.
Lisa Loebposted a photo of herself and husbandRoey Hershkovitzposing with Reubens. “It’s my pal Paul Reubens’s bday, better known as @peeweeherman,” she captioned thephoto.
“Every year he calls me for my bday, but we all do @BookCameo messages now to make birthdays special for other people, and last year he sent me a hilarious fake one,” Loeb, 54, added. “Here we are after his excellent live show years ago!”
Traci Lordscelebrated the big day with another groovy throwback of herself and Reubens hugging. “Happy birthday Paul! @peeweeherman Enjoy the cake!” Lords, 54,wroteon Twitter.
Reubens found fame as the temperamental childlike Pee-wee Herman after creating the character in 1977 while performing with Los Angeles-based improvisational comedy troupe The Groundlings.
He most recently reprised the role onscreen for the 2016 Netflix moviePee-wee’s Big Holiday, which starred the likes ofJoe Manganiello,David Arquette,Alia Shawkat,Stephanie Beatriz, Janina Gavankar, Nicole Sullivan,Paul RustandDarryl Stephens.
Reubens previously spoketo PEOPLEabout returning to the character after more than a decade for the star-studded film, following his1991 arrest for indecent exposureandsettling a child pornography casein 2004, of which he continued to maintain his innocence.
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“I went out of my way for quite some time to try and make people think that he was a real person and there wasn’t an actor behind it all,” he said in 2016, adding: “I never said, ‘I don’t want to be Pee-wee anymore.’ I loved what I was doing. But I needed a break.”
“I get to do something I love, that I created and that I made all the rules up to. It’s been fantastic. I couldn’t have asked for a better adventure,” Reubens added.
source: people.com
