Xpose Magazine Interviews Kristin Kreuk; Features Smallville Cover
(10/4) Issue #60 of the UK magazine Xpose features Michael Rosenbaum (Lex), Tom Welling (Clark), and Kristin Kreuk (Lana) on the cover and the interior features an excellent interview with Kristin Kreuk where she talks about the show, her character, and her co-stars, among other things.

For some excerpts from the magazine with some of the things Kristin had to say, you can visit the Xpose website.

The latest Cult Times Special features a cover with Tom Welling and Scott Bakula (Enterprise) photos made to look like they're standing next to each other, but no new ground is covered in the magazine, which featured an article with quotes from the Television Critics Association press tour a few months ago. Most of these quotes you can already find in past articles referenced here on KryptonSite.

Smallville Featured In New Dreamwatch Magazine
(10/3) Issue #86 (Nov. 2001) of the excellent UK sci-fi magazine Dreamwatch had features on every one of the new sci-fi TV series of the season, including Smallville.

The Smallville feature has great quotes from actors Tom Welling (Clark), Michael Rosenbaum (Lex), and Sam Jones III (Pete), who talk about their characters.

Tom Welling talks about how his Clark Kent is somewhat of an outsider. "Here he is able to do these things, but no one else can do them. He is a teenage kid, but he doesn't really have anyone to turn to and say, 'Look at that - look at how cool that is.' He just can't go out with his buddies and say 'I can't hurt myself. Let's go to the top of that building and jump off."

Then, Michael Rosenbaum talks about how his personal experience is nothing compared to what Lex Luthor had to grow up with. "I was a short kid in high school, I started puberty late and I was insecure. That was bad enough, but imagine being insecure and bald while dealing with your father's repulsion towards your baldness. That can create a lot of pent-up hatred -- something which may ultimately contribute to Luthor's eventual transition into darkness," Rosenbaum said.

Finally, Sam Jones III talked about his character of Pete Ross. "In the Superman comic book, Pete is a white character," Sam told Dreamwatch, "so I feel very privileged to break down a barrier. Instead of being the cool, hip black kid from the inner city, this guy is raised on a farm, he's very intelligent and extremely energetic."

Issue #86 of Dreamwatch is now at newsagents in the UK, and should be hitting the United States in the coming weeks. It has two covers available, one with Sarah Michelle Gellar as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and another with Scott Bakula from Enterprise. You can order issues of Dreamwatch online at http://www.dreamwatch.co.uk. Thanks VERY much to Clare for letting us know about this!

Kristin Kreuk "Snow White" Trailer Online
(10/3) At some time this TV season the ABC television network and Hallmark Entertainment will be presenting a live-action TV-movie of "Snow White" featuring Kristin Kreuk (Smallville's Lana) in the title role.

Indigo has informed us that you can now download the "Snow White" trailer video online at the Hallmark website. You can find it by going here and then selecting "Trailers."

Lex Luthor's Girlfriend?
(10/2) Reuters/Variety reporter Josef Adalian recently revealed that 21-year-old British model/actress Kelly Brook (who you can see to the right) is in negotiations with Warner Brothers to appear in several episodes of Smallville as a "gal pal of Lex Luthor's."

Brook was originally going to star on the WB in a series called The Misadventures of Fiona Plum which has since been nixed.

You can read the entire Reuters/Variety article by clicking here. Thanks to EmotionalHermit and Karen for the lead.

Smallville Episode #7: "Hourglass"
(10/2) KryptonSite has learned that episode #7 of Smallville will be titled "Hourglass." For information about the episode, please consult the KryptonSite spoilers page.

"Hourglass" will likely not air until late November or early December.

RUMOR: Kevin Arnold's Father In "Hothead?"
(10/2) "Chloe Sullivan" has posted on the Superman Cinema discussion board that Dan Lauria, who played Kevin Arnold's father ten years ago in The Wonder Years, will be playing "Coach Walt" in episode #4 of Smallville, which is titled "Hothead."

We do not have any official confirmation of this, so take it only as a rumor... but, "Chloe" has rarely been wrong before... if anyone cares to confirm this, please write in!

For more information on "Hothead," visit the KryptonSite spoilers page. "Hothead" could air as early as November 6.

Superman Homepage Catches Up With Cynthia Ettinger
(10/2) Steve Younis of the Superman Homepage has managed to contact Cynthia Ettinger, who appeared in the Smallville pilot that will never air. (Her scenes have been reshot with Annette O'Toole, who will be playing Martha Kent in the series).

"I had a lot of conflicting directions on the show and although I loved the story line, the people and the character," Ettinger said. "They just did not know how to use me or what to do with the character. I am too young to have him as my child and everyone seemed to be worried about that from the word Go."

You can read the Superman Homepage's complete interview with Ettinger by clicking here.

Tom Welling: Model Hero
(10/2) Zap2it.com today featured some quotes from Tom Welling about his former profession as a model and how it compares to playing young Clark Kent on Smallville. "It's a whole different world," he said to Zap2it about modeling. "I quit last year, and I'd been doing it for about two years before that."

Tom also revealed that in addition to acting, he has done some of his own stunts for Smallville. "I do as many stunts as reasonably possible," Welling said, "to give the directors more opportunity in the editing room. I actually jumped off a two-story barn and did a split-second of free-fall before the ratchet and the harness caught me. That was a great time. That was fun."

You can read Zap2it's complete interview by clicking here.

L.A. Daily News Sums Up The Competition
(10/2) A syndicated article by David Kronke of the Los Angeles Daily News covered the most competitive timeslots of the new season, and of course Tuesdays at 9PM made the list. Here's what he had to say:

"Start with Frasier on NBC, then add the WB's fairly promising piece of Super-revisionism, Smallville; ABC's pretty promising self-help parody, Bob Patterson; and Fox's incredibly promising thriller, 24. CBS contributes The Guardian, for which it claims to have high hopes, and UPN adds the cult favorite Roswell, which appears to be the generic template for the name-brand Smallville. This is perhaps the only hour on the prime-time schedule in which each of the major networks has something nominally worth watching."

In other print media news, Esquire magazine has put Smallville on their "essential shows list." Smallville has also made the "'in' list" in several teen-oriented papers and magazines. Thanks to Karen for passing that along