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Mark Sink
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Art critic Robert Hughes - “Pee-wee’s Playhouse, the Saturday morning kiddie show on CBS, is infinitely more interesting than most contemporary art” RIP Pee-wee. There is a small Denver connection to Paul Reubens. Denver stylists Kurt and Bart worked at Broadcast Arts who produced and designed the play house show. Around that time i was encouraged to become a card-carrying Pee-wee Fan Club member in the 1980s. I bumped into Kurt and Bart one day near my basement office under the Patrick Fox/ 56 Bleecker gallery on Bleecker and Lafayette in Noho. It was very exciting to peek in on the very secretive Play House set which was nearby. Before NYC fame Kurt and Bart and Ric Campbell, helped me produce a memorable fashion show called Fashion Disaster  Dressing for Failure. We had a half dozen sewing machines going in my loft home on 1553 Platte st. sewing up mad mish mashings .. The show was a smash success. Even buyers of the clothes. Kurt and Bart did the clothes and the styling for many great movies and series . The Hunger Games stands out .. I just watched a recent Tom Hanks movie set in the future.. Finch, i always squeal when their names pop up the credits ...oh they were Britney Spear's stylist through her heyday.  Lastly in NYC late 80s,  i purchased off the sidewalk a fire engine red pin striped 1940s prewar Admiral Schwinn Hornet from an eccentric antique/second-hand dealer on Lafayette and Bleecker ..sweet heart crank ( hearts connected)  Keith Harring even drew a bicycle man on the rocket light on the fender. ( torn off / stolen right away) ... that crazy bike had a crazy appeal to the black community .. everywhere i rode i would be cat called yelled at hey Pee Wee !  Yo Pee-wee.. Sometimes very animated !  The impact of Pee-wee is far and wide. My daughter Poppy LOVES him! He will live forever in film. There is an extended memory of Pee-wee and Kurt and Bart over on FB. https://www.facebook.com/Mark.Breese.Sink #peewee