2001 TV News Archives

Welling and Rosenbaum

December 20, 2001: "Smallville" Actors in TV's Men of the Year

Entertainment Weekly has published an article titled "Male Pattern Boldness" which delves into the reasons why certain male actors from certain TV shows "deserve our enduring love". Here's an excerpt from the article and what it has to say about Tom Welling (Clark Kent) and Michael Rosenbaum (Lex Luthor) from "Smallville"...

Behind every great man on TV, there's... another great man! And that's why EW.com's men of the year come in pairs. Some of them sit side by side, jumping down each other's throats on a daily basis. Some, on the other hand, rarely appear on screen together. Regardless, the battle of Banker vs. Furniture Designer is as much of a thrill as the perpetual sparring between former child star and... former child star. So, here they are, our men of the year -- vivacious, witty, depressed, evil and, for the most part, mighty fine.

SUPER'S POWER

Winsome Welling has female viewers searching for Kryptonite.

Tom Welling and Michael Rosenbaum, "Smallville" I didn't salivate at the thought of seeing Clark Kent as a bewildered teen. But the men of "Smallville" -- Clark Kent (Welling) and Lex Luthor (Rosenbaum) -- have me drooling like a Pavlovian pup. When Rosenbaum's angst-ridden Lex hides behind the tinted window of his really fast car, it's part James Spader circa "Pretty in Pink" and part DC Comics, a combination that works because these guys wince and squirm as if they really were coming into their good/evil own. Oh, and they're pretty darn hot. Stranded without Lana in the high school hallway, Clark is a man of steel, encased in a veneer of pretty-boy gloss; and his prematurely bald rival... well, don'tcha just want to give him a healing hug and tell him it's not his fault he's evil? I know I do. Read the complete article at the EW.com website.



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