Grace Jones on the Pee Wee Herman Christmas Special from 1988
Jones clip via the fascinating, poignant HBO documentary on Pee Wee Herman, which shows how much he came out of the whole Andy Warhol / Theatre of the Ridiculous / Angels of Light / John Waters lineage
A fellow traveler with Club 52, B-52s, Klaus Nomi (some image cross over there), Devo et al
An ancestor (in his collecting of kooky Americana) of World of Wonder
Paul Reubens was also an alumnus of Cal Arts, doing performance art and weird films and such... a trip to see shaky old super-8 footage of things performed in the corridors and halls that are now very familiar to me
filtered through this
Until the doc I never even heard of this big bump in the upward trajectory of his career
For reasons best known to himself he wanted to have the longest kiss in cinema history
