Lately Dean has been sighted a lot often ;)
Ofcourse we all know he's the Host of "Ripley's Believe It Or Not!" and he was interviewed by Regis and Kathee Lee, Access Hollywood, TV Guide and a telephone interview from Aspen, Colo, for the show.

HOLLYWOOD - Superman (Dean Cain) and the Incredible Hulk (Lou Ferrigno) saluted Stan Lee's 60th anniversary in entertainment and the launch of his Internet creation, 7th Portal, at Raleigh Studios on Tuesday night. Dean goes on E! due to a gathering of Superheroes ... there was a big event to kick off a new project of Stan Lee's and Dean was one of the attendees.
Go here for screen caps and a realvideo of the whole interview: http://www.zoomway.com/boards/ubbhtml/Forum2/HTML/000105.html

Dean was also at the Sundance Film Festival

Two articles on interviews with Dean:

Feb. 21, 2000, 6:08PM
Former Man of Steel Dean Cain sees career rise again on 'Ripley'
TV FEATURE
By TERRY MORROW

When you've leaped tall buildings in a single bound while wearing blue Spandex and a cape, it takes a preacher who absorbs a million volts of electricity to get your attention.

So when Dean Cain, the former star of ABC's Lois & Clark, talks about his new series, Ripley's Believe It or Not (7:05 p.m. Wednesdays on TBS), he thinks first about the bizarre story of the preacher with a thirst for electricity.

Minister and science teacher Dean Ortner has been struck by lightning hundreds of times and has the ability to allow millions of volts of electricity to ride through his body, a feat that he performs to teach his students.

Cain had plenty of colorful examples from which to draw when talking about his new series. There's the woman who gave birth without a torso and the men who pierce themselves with large steel rods. But Cain maintains this new Ripley's will be smarter than previous versions.

"I'm not here to pass judgment," Cain says during a telephone interview from Apsen, Colo. "I'm there to usher people through our journey each week, and it is quite a journey.

"No, I won't be the Ed Sullivan of the strange and bizarre, but I certainly will become the purveyor of the tremendous amount of knowledge of the strange and unusual. I don't want to be known as the Ripley's guy."

The original Ripley's guy was cartoonist Robert L. Ripley, whose renderings of true-life sports oddities appeared in the New York Globe in 1918. By 1929, the idea was so popular that it had expanded to tales outside the sports world, which were compiled into a book.

Between 1929 and 1949, Ripley received 3,500 letters a day, most of which contained bizarre factoids and stories. Ripley himself investigated the most interesting claims worldwide and brought evidence back with him.

The first Ripley's Believe It or Not series was hosted by Ripley and debuted in 1949. After shooting its 13th episode, Ripley suffered a blackout and died of a massive heart attack. In the 1980s, ABC launched its own version of Ripley's Believe It or Not with Jack Palance as host. Now, the Atlanta-based TBS cable channel has brought back Ripley's in a version that Cain says will try to make the oddities seem less freakish and more human.

"I'll be honest," Cain says. "There are some stories we do that are a little outlandish, a little of the voyeuristic. But most of the time we are doing very human stories about people who are incredible. The stories that touch me the most, the ones I am most proud of, are the ones we tell about people who overcome incredible odds.

"The stories about people with disabilities and how they cope with them are what make me proud of this show."

Segments include:

A profile of cannibals living in India and their bizarre spiritual rituals.

A man born with arms ending at his elbows and legs ending at his knees who has come close to setting speed records in foot races.

Dogs shown not only playing pool, but also calling their shots.

A teen-age strong woman who can pull a truck packed with her high school's football team.

Cain is high on the series for several reasons, among them being a chance for his production company, Anger Dragon, to get off the ground.

It also puts him in front of the camera each week without enduring the kind of grind that Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman put him through. After four years on Lois & Clark, which co-starred Teri Hatcher, Cain says he wants to do something different on television to help dispel his Man of Steel image.

"There's not a Superman joke I haven't heard," he says dryly.

He says he didn't think he'd go back to series TV so soon after Lois & Clark was axed in 1997, but Ripley's was too good to pass up. The Princeton graduate is "a huge fan" of the History and Discovery channels, and he says he wants this new Ripley's to be influenced by the kinds of series shown on those cable channels.

"This is a whole different ball of wax. This version (of Ripley's) is completely different from the whole way it used to go. It's not for shock. It's very informative," he says.

February 23
Dean Cain not raisin' it
Man of Steel has a heart, 'Believe It or Not'
by Luaine Lee

Scripps Howard News Service

PASADENA, Calif. - When the four-year run of the ABC series "Lois & Clark - The New Adventures of Superman" flickered its last image, Superman was not about to fold his red cape and head for a condo in Florida.

But Dean Cain, the man who played the buff crusader, had other plans. Cain, who formed his own production company, now is host of "Ripley's Believe It or Not" on cable's TBS.

This project is a good fit for the Princeton graduate, one-time All-American college athlete, ex-professional football player and history enthusiast.

"The day before yesterday I had a Derringer pistol in my hand which was found on the floor of Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C., the night Abraham Lincoln was shot," says Cain, leaning forward in a black leather armchair, his square jaw stretched wide in a grin.

"On the handle of the pistol it says the name 'J. Wilkes Booth.' It was unbelievable to me.

"That combines the love of history in a heartbeat, and education and entertainment and fun."

Those elements pretty much sum up the man himself. While people already recognize the sturdy physique, few know that the kid who grew up in sunny Malibu forsook sure-fire football scholarships to UCLA or USC for the icy paths of New Jersey and the academic drudge of history.

He admits, though, that his second year there he almost quit.

"I was having a tough time being away," he recalls, "walking through Prospect Gardens in the middle of November, where it was snowy, rainy, icy. . . .I talked to my mom and it was 92 degrees in Los Angeles," he recalls, shaking his head.

"My friends at USC and UCLA were treated like gods because they played football. I'd just gotten berated by a teacher's aide in Russian politics because. . .I hadn't done well on the test. But I had done really well in the game the week before.

"He said, 'You should've done as well on this test as you did in the game!' in front of the class, which upset me. . .I was peeved off and treated like a behemoth, if you will, because I was a football player, a Neanderthal, and this was an institution of learning. I was frustrated and had a coach that was yelling at me every single day."

Cain's stepfather, film director Chris Cain, came to visit.

"He calmed me down, had me go through it. And it was OK. I could leave at the end of the semester and go take a scholarship at UCLA and play football if that's what I wanted to do. But give it some time. He got me to open my eyes to the bigger picture."

That bigger picture has stayed in Cain's mind, even when the Man of Steel turned him into public property.

"When I was on television it was bad, I felt like I was constantly in a fishbowl. But the series ended and it dropped off 60 percent. It was great. And I got back some anonymity."

Cain, 33, didn't leave Princeton at the end of the semester, and that determination has served him well in show business, too.

Originally, he was working as a writer. "I was doing a lot of writing but didn't quite make the kind of money I wanted to make, so I started to do commercials, TV commercials and things. And the money came much more quickly and much more easily."

Commercials led to guest shots and a season on "Beverly Hills 90210," which led to auditioning for Superman. He says he found a similarity between being an athlete and a performer: "As an athlete, you enjoy being in the spotlight.. . ."

Cain may have turned Clark Kent into a babe magnet, but Cain himself isn't in a relationship. He broke up with his girlfriend 18 months ago.

"I'm still looking," he says, adding that it's difficult to find the right person.

"That's why there are so many single people and people who are divorced," he says.

"I don't want to make a mistake. I don't ever want to have to have a divorce. A lot of my friends who've been married are divorced. And that's tragic. I'm 33 and I'm getting to the place I'm in no hurry. Whatever happens, happens."

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