Posted on 01/31/2021 2:58:52 PM PST by Rummyfan
Take it from someone who took the Eighties for everything it had: Hedonism is overrated.
As a boy in Dayton, Ohio, and continuing after his unstable, divorced mother moved the family to Malibu so she could (only after arriving) announce that she was marrying a doctor she had met in a clinic that offered Seventies quackery to people with unexplained allergies, Rob Lowe thought of himself as an awkward theater nerd. When it came to flirting with girls, “I had no game whatsoever,” he recalls in his sagacious autobiography, Stories I Only Tell My Friends. Evidence accumulated to the contrary; for his 14th birthday, for instance, a girl he didn’t know particularly well offered him a birthday cake — and sex. (On the beach. It was lovely, he says.) He was barely 19 when Nastassia Kinski, one of his co-stars on The Hotel New Hampshire (1984) and generally acknowledged to be one of the world’s great beauties, openly propositioned him, and he didn’t quite grasp what was happening. She shot him a look that said, “Helloooo? Do I need to spell it out?” he writes.
But something changed in him when he played the freewheeling, sax-playing, shades-wearing, drinks-drinking cad, Billy, in one of the signature teen films of its era, St. Elmo’s Fire (1985). The director Joel Schumacher wasn’t sold on Lowe for the role, which the actor won only after showing up for an audition with a six-pack of Corona and swigging liberally as he pitched himself. Lowe enjoyed playing the roguish charmer so much that he started to play him in real life. In the famous June 1985 New York magazine profile of him and his co-stars Emilio Estevez and Judd Nelson whose headline introduced the sobriquet “the Brat Pack,”...
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I've never been a big fan - I have never watched and never will watch an episode of The West Wing for instance - but there is something to be said for surviving and enduring. Many do not make it through the first flushes and excesses of success.
He had a small but hilarious part in Thank You for Smoking...
I think the movie About Last Night came out in 1985. I took my girlfriend at the time to see it. She broke up with me later that evening because “she wanted Rob Lowe but I was the (Jim Belushi charter) Bernie Lithgow.” Lol. She wound up marring my best old ex-friend Jim the Bus Driver.
I liked him The Stand. His silence was golden!
I must admit, I had the biggest crush on Demi Moore in that movie.
Imagine that: the book of Ecclesiastes is correct. :)
Sounds like he grew up in a car cra household
Rob Lowe seems okay to me. He never was never as big a star as he was in the 80s, but he has had some interesting roles. I liked him in “The Stand”, “Wayne’s World” and “Tommy Boy”.
He simply got all the wild out of his system before he self destructed. At least he did not end up in prison like Robert Downey Jr.
There is hope for all. Come Home.
We get too soon old and too late smart. — Pennsylvania Dutch proverb.
He and Robert Wagner played the same role ( Number 2 ) at different ages in the “Austin Powers” series.
He plays his part pretty good in “911 Lonestar” but I stopped watching after the show got in your face with the characters of his gay suicidal son and a Muslim female firefighter.
Dude. Yeah. Not a darn thing wrong with that girly-girl, no sireee.
His sons mock him mercilessly on Twitter and Instagram. So, you know he’s a cool Dad. ;)
Tea with Miss McGill!!
Always pegged him to be a snobbish asshole but recently saw him on a Joe Rogan podcast and he came across as a fairly down to earth cool guy, age probably has something to do with that. He had a ton of great Hollywood stories. It was actually an interesting podcast to listen to.
I regret my hedonistic past life. So many partners I lost count. Met a great women at age 31.
She would faint if she knew my past
Well you can’t call an operator anymore.
I got 15 minutes in and stopped watching. Way too woke Hollywood.
Hey, you got the allusion!
I’m talking about the 1986 version starring Rob Lowe and Jim Belushi, not to mention the drop-dead gorgeous Demi Moore.
Re: the movie Youngblood. It’s a good movie, Rob Lowe’s best, and it must have been tough for him to have his career peak at a young age.
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