Another article from philly.com dated 23rd February:- 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."