
By Romeo San Vicente
Paul Reubens Helps Push Daisies
For a TV program that
hasn't even aired yet, Pushing Daisies - the oddball police
procedural/unrequited love saga of a man (Lee Pace) who brings the dead
back to life to solve the mystery of how they died - is already racking
up coolness points.
Created by gay screenwriter Bryan Fuller (creator of cult fave shows
Wonderfalls and Dead Like Me) and due this month, the show's
already the most critically acclaimed and hotly anticipated thing on
ABC's fall schedule.
Now comes the inclusion of Paul Reubens, whose resurgent career received
a jolt of adrenalin last year with his hilarious turn as deformed
royalty on 30 Rock.
The erstwhile Pee-Wee Herman will star as the unusually named traveling
anti-depressant salesman Alfredo Aldorisio, who becomes involved in the
whimsical, resurrection-themed goings on.
Whether his character will end up among the living or dead, however, is
a mystery.
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