Before he was John Brassel in Mission Impossible III. Before he was Dr. Larabee in Akeelah and the Bee. Before he was Morpheus in The Matrix. Before he was Othello. Before he was Jason 'Furious' Styles in Boyz N the Hood.
Laurence Fishburne was…
COWBOY CURTIS on Pee-Wee’s Playhouse!
During his stint on Pee-wee’s Playhouse, Fishburne was credited as “Larry Fishburne.”
Through Pee-wee’s Playhouse, Fishburne met production assistant John Singleton, who would later direct him in his breakthrough part as Cuba Gooding Jr's father in "Boyz N the Hood."
Watch a video clip of Cowboy Curtis where Pee-wee convinces him that vacuuming is fun.
Note: Stay tuned for more Pee-wee Herman-related postings on Infomaniac in future. Fellow Canadian blogger D. Prince and I are both passionate Pee-wee fans and I plan to amuse her from time to time with Pee-wee postings. And if any of you like Pee-wee too, please jump in and leave a comment.
Wow MJ! You just made my night. I look forward to more Pee Wee postings. I have a feeling between the two of us we're going to drive people nuts.
ReplyDelete*MJ searches for her photo of Pee-wee wearing giant underpants on his head.*
ReplyDeleteHe was also on The Color Purple....where he played wuite a divine looking man of the 40's....I think.....
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ReplyDeleteDID NOT KNOW UNTIL NOW THAT WAS HIM! OMG..I need to go lay down.
**MY TURN!** He was also in Apocolypse Now. The credits even have him as Larry Fishburne, yikes!
ReplyDeleteThank you astute readers. I missed out on a couple of credits.
ReplyDeleteHe was playing a gay cowboy long before Brokeback Mountain made it fashionable.
ReplyDeletedang, we have the cowboy Curtis action figure sitting in our bookcase right now! wearing the much-coveted-by-collectors cowboy hat!!!
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.....my wallpaper from last week!
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Hmmm. Prunella mentioned "gay cowboy" and First Nations mentioned "action figure." I'm tempted to round up my Pee-wee's Playhouse action figures and pose them all in provacative positions whilst reinacting scenes from Brokeback Mountain.
ReplyDeleteNow that would be worth seeing.
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