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The Coolest Director on TV?
Stephen R. Johnson builds the manic structure that is ‘Pee-wee’s Playhouse’
Do you think it's easy to be the director
of the absolutely coolest thing on tele
vision?Spend a few minutes with Ste
phen K Johnson and you’ll see how wrong
you are Johnson is the director for "Pee
wee's Playhouse," the Saturday-morning
kid'sprogramonCBSthat’sfarhipperthan
most adult shows. On this Thursday after
noon, Johnson’s holding a nonstop series of
conferences with the people working on as
many as four separateepisodes of the "Play
house." First he tells a man where to edit
one sequence—in which a woman, a robot
and u talking globe plead wit h the star, Pee
wee Herman Then he asks an animator to
add u few more descriptive details to the
figure of a baby: "How about a pacifier? Or a
bonnet?" Then he swoops across the floor
and flutters his hands to describe how ani
mated snow should blow across the screen
in a different show And then he’s off to pick
The eyes have It: ■Johnson (left) making Peter Gabriel's 'Sledgehammer'video
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