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By Michele Orecklin

SUPERMAN GOES HOME AGAIN A lot has changed in Smallville since CHRISTOPHER REEVE last visited. For one thing, it has got smaller. When Reeve starred in Superman I-IV, each was a feature-length film shown in movie theaters. Today most viewers track the travails of Clark Kent on the small screen in the hit WB television series Smallville, with a teenage Kent played by TOM WELLING. Reeve, who was paralyzed in a horseback-riding accident in 1995, will make a guest appearance on the show on Feb. 25, playing a scientist who is researching the planet Krypton. At the end of the show, Reeve and Welling will appear in a public-service announcement for the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation.

SOMETHING LIKE THE REAL THING It was a revelation that may hearten his insurance company but disillusion his fans: action star JACKIE CHAN, 48, the martial-arts expert from Hong Kong long known for personally executing all manner of hazardous maneuvers on film, admitted that he has started using a stunt double. "I will use stunt doubles if you ask me to ride an F-16 jet fighter, or jump over a series of hurdles with a crazy horse, or perform two 720-degree somersaults," Chan said. But, he added, "[if the script calls for] one somersault, I'll do it myself." It seems that after years of sustaining broken bones, his body isn't as elastic as it used to be. It's nice to know that getting old in Hollywood isn't just a problem for women age 40 and older.

THE BACHELOR Three years ago, Cris Judd was just a face in the chorus line, working as a backup dancer on videos and concert tours. Now he's known to everyone in Hollywood. Unfortunately, it's for being the man who served as a way station between Puff Daddy and Ben Affleck. Judd met JENNIFER LOPEZ on the set of her video Love Don't Cost a Thing, when she was on the rebound from Puffy. The two wed and separated within a year, and just months later Lopez became engaged to Affleck. The Judd/Lopez divorce was scheduled to become final last weekend. It may be hard for Judd to blend back into the chorus line. But if the dancing thing doesn't pan out, there's always reality TV.

SIGHTING Watching big hulking men play in the Super Bowl, viewers paying attention to the commercials also got their first look at another Hulk: actor ERIC BANA, who plays scientist Bruce Banner in a movie due out in June; his green alter ego is computer generated.