“I want to set the record straight on a couple of things, and that’s it.” So says Paul Reubens — better remembered by many viewers as offbeat children’s entertainer Pee-Wee Herman — at the outset of “Pee-Wee as Himself,” as he and director Matt Wolf tentatively lay out the terms of the documentary they’re making. If he meant that, or at least if Wolf took him at his word, the film would be far shorter and slighter than it is. As it turns out, at 200 minutes carved from over 40 hours of interviews, “Pee-Wee as Himself” is the last word on a life and career that retained a
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