{"id":25655,"date":"2021-11-23T18:15:15","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T02:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/?p=25655"},"modified":"2021-11-26T08:30:05","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T16:30:05","slug":"rest-in-peace-lou-aka-amazing-larry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/2021\/11\/23\/rest-in-peace-lou-aka-amazing-larry\/","title":{"rendered":"Rest in Peace, Lou aka Amazing Larry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class='flex-video widescreen'><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"amazing larry cut\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VjSs9pQntlg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Lou Cutell, the actor who played The Amazing Larry in &#8220;Pee-wee\u2019s Big Adventure,&#8221; passed away on Sunday. During a career that spanned well over fifty years, he acted in an extraordinary number of diverse movies and television shows. Besides my own film, my favorite thing Lou acted in was when he played an alien doctor in 1965\u2019s &#8220;Frankenstein Meets the Spacemonster.&#8221; In real life, he was wonderful\u2014sweet, caring and unassuming. He was also slyly and wickedly funny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"799\" height=\"447\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/messages_0-42.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25656\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/messages_0-42.jpeg 799w, https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/messages_0-42-640x358.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/messages_0-42-768x430.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 799px) 100vw, 799px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Toward the beginning of &#8220;Pee-wee\u2019s Big Adventure,&#8221; there was a scene in Mario\u2019s Magic Shop that was cut from the finished movie where Lou, as The Amazing Larry, is working on a levitating toupee trick. A little later, when I\u2019m unraveling in my basement and yell at Lou \u201cIs this something you can share with the rest of us, Amazing Larry?!\u201d the movie studio told Tim Burton and I that it would have to also be cut because no one knew who Amazing Larry was. I assured them that it would stand alone as a joke\u2014that between him being busted for whispering during a very tense scene, a middle-aged man with a rainbow mohawk, and being named Amazing Larry, the audience would laugh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br \/>Lou was surrounded by family who loved him when he passed. A couple of days before, I was lucky enough to be able to tell him how much he meant to me and that I\u2019d never forget him. It\u2019s obvious and corny to say, but nevertheless true: he was amazing.<br \/>Rest In Peace, Lou <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\u2764\ufe0f\" src=\"https:\/\/fonts.gstatic.com\/s\/e\/notoemoji\/14.0\/2764_fe0f\/32.png\"\/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2GAHwkP.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25657\" width=\"836\" height=\"462\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lou Cutell, the actor who played The Amazing Larry in &#8220;Pee-wee\u2019s Big Adventure,&#8221; passed away on Sunday. During a career that spanned well over fifty years, he acted in an extraordinary number of diverse movies and television shows. Besides my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25660,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,87],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25655"}],"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=25655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25659,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25655\/revisions\/25659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}