{"id":23015,"date":"2020-03-18T12:17:09","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T19:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/?p=23015"},"modified":"2020-03-18T12:35:38","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T19:35:38","slug":"this-post-goes-out-to-susan-tyrell-aka-midge-from-big-top-pee-wee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/2020\/03\/18\/this-post-goes-out-to-susan-tyrell-aka-midge-from-big-top-pee-wee\/","title":{"rendered":"This post goes out to Susan Tyrrell, aka “Midge” from Big Top Pee-wee!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"\"\"\n

Hi everyone!<\/p>\n

Remember Midge? \u2014 Mace Montana’s (played by Kris Kristofferson) 3-inch-tall wife from Big Top Pee-wee<\/em>? Well, she was played by actress Susan Tyrrell<\/a>. She and I had been in a play together when I first got out of college, “The Death and Life of Jesse James” at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

Earlier than that, Susan had been nominated for a best supporting actress Oscar for a movie called Fat City<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s also in a couple of John Waters’ movies and I think one of the Andy Warhol\/Paul Morrissey movies as well. She was absolutely one of a kind and someone I admired very much both on and off screen.<\/p>\n

She’s described<\/a> as a “bizarre, gloriously one-of-a-kind Hollywood gypsy and self-affirmed outcast.” (How great is that description?!)<\/p>\n

Today would have been Susan’s 75th birthday. She passed away in 2012.<\/p>\n

This one goes out to you, Susan! Take care, everyone!<\/p>\n

— Paul Reubens<\/em><\/p>\n\"\"\n\"\"\n\"\"\n

Look closely, Midge is super imposed on top of the truck \u2014 very tiny. In the foreground is Benicio Del Toro as Duke the Dog-Faced Boy and on the right is Lynne Stewart as Zelda the Bearded Lady, a.k.a. Miss Yvonne!!!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi everyone! Remember Midge? \u2014 Mace Montana’s (played by Kris Kristofferson) 3-inch-tall wife from Big Top Pee-wee? Well, she was played by actress Susan Tyrrell. She and I had been in a play together when I first got out of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-big-top-pee-wee","category-friends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23015"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23031,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23015\/revisions\/23031"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}