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TIL Pee-Wee’s house in Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure was a residential home owned by a “Chinese woman who barely spoke English” in Pasadena, CA. The director painted it fire engine red. “When we went in to do the house and painted it red, she was terrified that everyone would think she was a Communist.“

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