Pee-wee’s Playhouse

…on the children’s television show Pee-Wee’s Playhouse. He worked again with Coppola in Rumble Fish (1983) and The Cotton Club (1984) and with directors Steven Spielberg in The Color Purple (1985) and Spike Lee in School Daze (1988).

…Saturday morning children’s television show Pee-wee’s Playhouse (1986–90), which starred Paul Reubens in his Pee-wee Herman persona. Around that same time, Cummings’s younger brother, Michael Cummings, became known by his stage name, Spider One, which he assumed when he became the lead singer of Powerman 5000, a rock band formed…