In honor of the 2014 Word Cup, which will be hosted in the Brazilian city of Sao Paolo less than two years from now, Imagine Entertainment is planning a biopic on Brazilian futbol legend Pelé, thought of by most of the world as the greatest soccer player of all time. Slated to showcase Pelé’s life up to the age of seventeen (when he won his first World Cup, in Sweden), the film will begin filming next year and be released in time for pre-Cup viewing. Fans of his 1970s role as a New York Cosmos sensation will have to wait for someone else to cover those flashier years -- for now they can thank the revived club’s chairman Paul Kemsely for bringing this project to Imagine. (In preparation for the film, check out the beautiful and inspiring "Young Pelé" from author/illustrator team Lesa Cline-Ransome and James E. Ransome.) [via Variety]

Following the lead of his fairer comic predecessors, like Nora Ephron and Joan Rivers, Billy Crystal will use his comedic powers to write a memoir on aging, due out next year in celebration of his sixty-fifth birthday. He’s counting on his 77 million co-baby-boomers to laughingly sympathize with his musings -- and publisher Henry Holt is, too, expressing its confidence with a nearly $4 million dollar advance. It remains to be seen if there will also be an acclaimed staged version, as there was with his 2006 memoir, “700 Sundays.” [via the New York Times]

Simon & Schuster imprint Howard Books will publish “Planned Bullyhood,” former Susan G. Komen for the Cure executive Karen Handel’s side of her controversial recommendation that the foundation withdraw its financial support of Planned Parenthood, which has offered free breast cancer screenings to low-income women for decades. Set for release on September 11, Handel’s memoir might shed some light on the fine points of her decision. Although she stepped down and the foundation has restored Planned Parenthood funding, donations to Komen have dropped dramatically, remaining down by twenty percent. [via Hollywood Reporter]

Stevie Nicks, the sweetly beguiling sorceress of the Fleetwood Mac foursome, will have her life covered in a biography, to be published by St. Martin’s Press. Her story will be written by Stephen Davis, who lent a hand in Mick Fleetwood’s 1990 autobiography. We’re betting on his familiarity with Nicks’ once-upon-a-time bandmate and consort to give keen insight into the songstress’s turbulent musical life and subsequent retirement from public life. [via New York Observer]

2012 is the year of musical memoir and biography, bringing plenty of forgotten contenders out of the woodwork. The Partridge Family’s Shirley Jones, who also boasts an actor’s Oscar, will enlist the help of celebrity biographer Wendy Leigh to craft the story of her life. She promises that it'll be a tale of someone much different from her TV persona and include details on significant people in her life -- from Frank Sinatra to her son, David Cassidy. [via The Sacramento Bee]