In August 1985, a movie came along that launched the careers of two revered talents—director/screenwriter Tim Burton and comic actor Paul Reubens, aka Pee-wee ...

Nearly 40 years after the filming of "Pee-wee's Big Adventure," a behind-the-scenes photo offers a look into an iconic scene filmed in San Antonio. In a famous scene in the 1985 film, Pee-wee Herman, ...

Remember the scene in "Pee-wee's Big Adventure" when Pee-wee Herman and his trusty bike use a vine to swing across a pond? If your pockets are deep enough, you could snap up the bike used in that ...

The movie turns 40 in August. Pee-wee Herman’s red bike is headed to a museum at the Alamo —for good. The original stunt bicycle used by Paul Reubens in the 1985 Tim Burton film Pee-wee’s Big ...

Kim Kardashian has gifted her sister, Kourtney, one of the bikes used on screen by Paul Reuben's Pee-wee Herman in the 'Big ...

Kim Kardashian gifted her older sister, Kourtney Kardashian, the ultimate piece of film memorabilia for Christmas! Kourtney, ...

The world knew and loved Pee-wee Herman for more than four decades, but how much did anyone know the man behind the child-like character in the gray suit and red bow tie? Just before he died in 2023, ...

In today’s news that makes you go, “Wait…What? How Is That Possible?” Tim Burton finally has a film in the Criterion Collection. Fittingly, it’s his first, Pee-wee’s Big Adventure, which is getting a ...

This story is part of our Best Things in Texas package, which appeared in the December 2025 issue. For the last year or so I was busy with an unusual project: writing the interpretive panels for the ...

“The bike will be permanently displayed in the future Alamo Visitor Center and Museum, opening in Fall 2027,” the museum shared on Instagram. By McKinley Franklin Pee-wee Herman’s original red bike ...