The rediscovery of someone is usually accompanied by the over-estimation, especially if you're a Big Important Publication. If you're doing a story about Person X's brave comeback or difficult journey, you can't go the People route and dwell on the dirt. Elevate your subject! Winch high the reputation! NYT:

I've never heard anyone mention "Pee Wee's Playhouse" in the same breath as "The Sopranos."

Coincidences like that just don't happen, pal.

If you like Pee-Wee, it's a good read. Towards the end, a revelation: turns out you can't look like the same character from the 80s when you're now past 63.

But a very young-looking elephant. None of that baggy skin you associate with pachyderms. Anyway: if you're wondering why Pee-Wee and the interviewer were looking at Wound Care, it's because they were at Walgreens. Pee-Wee wanted to go to the Walgreen's on Sunset and Vine, which the author tried hard to make sound like some sort of kitsch palace. The World HQ of Walgreens. The Google Street View makes it look like any other recent development, and the past views show it was a Borders; doesn't seem to be remarkable in any way. But there had to be something there before, a piece of old LA that was razed for an interchangeable California project. This was it.

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