The holidays are a hard time for anyone who has lost a loved one. And Melissa Rivers is finding it hard as she faces the festive season without her mother, Joan, who died in September at the age of 81 after complications from a surgical procedure. The TV star was asked about her Christmas wish by photographers as she left Craig's restaurant in West Hollywood earlier this week, and her response was heartbreaking. "My Christmas wish is that my son starts laughing again," she said in a video posted on TMZ. Wishing the photographers "a great New Year and a Merry Christmas,...
- 12/25/2014
- by K.C. Blumm
- PEOPLE.com
Don’t get me wrong: I adore Charlie Brown, Rudolph and the Grinch as much as anyone. But ask me to name my all-time favorite holiday special, and I gotta go with Pee-wee Herman.
Broadcast in 1988--in prime time!--Pee-wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special had everything we can possibly want in seasonal entertainment: music, merriment, snow … even Oprah.
“There’s never been a Christmas special like this, I guarantee you,” Pee-wee told Et’s Jeanne Wolf in 1988. (As was his custom, Paul Reubens did the interview entirely in character as his giggling, bow-tied alter ego.) And he was absolutely right: Until Pee-wee’s Playhouse came along in 1986, no one had ever blended camp, comedy and an art-school sensibility on Saturday morning television before. The result attracted kids and many curious adults.
The Christmas special stands out for a few reasons. In the interview, Pee-wee noted it had a “bigger budget, more time (and...
Broadcast in 1988--in prime time!--Pee-wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special had everything we can possibly want in seasonal entertainment: music, merriment, snow … even Oprah.
“There’s never been a Christmas special like this, I guarantee you,” Pee-wee told Et’s Jeanne Wolf in 1988. (As was his custom, Paul Reubens did the interview entirely in character as his giggling, bow-tied alter ego.) And he was absolutely right: Until Pee-wee’s Playhouse came along in 1986, no one had ever blended camp, comedy and an art-school sensibility on Saturday morning television before. The result attracted kids and many curious adults.
The Christmas special stands out for a few reasons. In the interview, Pee-wee noted it had a “bigger budget, more time (and...
- 12/22/2014
- Entertainment Tonight
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