Chairy, Jambi the Genie (meccalecca high mecca hiney ho), Cowboy Curtis...do you guys remember? If you watched Pee Wee's Playhouse back in the day you are already familiar with the work of Wayne White who won several emmys for all the bizarro puppets and characters he developed on what was then a sort of revolutionary kids program.That was followed by a long period of lean work opportunities and now he has emerged again as an artist of note.
There is a new documentary about Wayne, titled "Beauty is Embarrassing" that lets us in on his world from his childhood in the south to his huge success, through all his subsequent failures and then now a life back in the spotlight as an in demand artist. I just love his spirit and his oddballness - that he wants to inject some humor into the art world and that he lives by the motto "Do what you love, it's going to lead you to where you want to go"
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