Buzz News Roundup, 8/22
- Paul "Pee-Wee" Reubens will guest-star on ABC's "Pushing Daisies," TV Guide reports. Meanwhile, Aidan Quinn is headed to "Canterbury's Law" to play Julianna Margulies' husband.
- According to the Hollywood Reporter, Eva Mendes will be playing a femme fatale with "dangerous curves" in the Frank Miller movie Will Eisner's The Spirit.
- Ventriloquist Terry Fator has won "America's Got Talent," the Associated Press reports.
- Variety reports that Tim Allen will write and star in a Disney comedy titled Brothers about a racially mixed pair of adopted brothers who are framed for a crime.
- Billboard reports that the soundtrack to High School Musical 2 is No. 1 on The Billboard 200.
- Margaret Nagle, creator of Lifetime's original series "Side Order of Life," has sold her movie script New York State of Mind, a fantastical love story filmed entirely in New York, reports ComingSoon.
- "Nip/Tuck" creator Ryan Murphy is creating a pilot for FX about the life of a man who decides to get a sex change, Zap2it reports.
- E! Online states that Lily Allen will not be performing at this year's MTV Video Music Awards due to problems with her American work visa.
- Ice Cube and Fred Durst are making an inspirational sports movie titled Comeback, Variety says.
- A Seattle woman punched a man to prevent him from singing Coldplay's "Yellow" at a karaoke bar, NME reports.
