From KSL-TV, the NBC affiliate in Salt Lake City, comes this piece about former Utah state trooper Brian Smith, accused of the Monday-night shootings on LBJ Freeway that left two dead. So happens Smith had given the station's crew a highway tour in his cruiser in March 2007, 14 months months before he resigned from the force following an incident involving guns, pills and drunk driving. --Robert WilonskyVideo Courtesy of KSL.com
The top story in today's Hollywood Reporter billboards the cast of the new Sci Fi Channel series Stargate Universe, third in the Stargate franchise. Starring opposite Robert Carlyle (The Full Monty, Trainspotting) is Brian J. Smith, a young actor we've been writing about (OK, gushing over) since he wowed critics and audiences in A Clockwork Orange at Collin County Community College's Quad C Theatre in 2002.Smith, pictured here, is one of the four leads on the show. He'll play Lt. Matthew Scott,