It’s one thing to read Rob Lowe’s memoir, intriguing as it is. However, it’s quite another to hear his life recounted in his own voice. Hearing his words in his engaging, expressive voice seems to actually bring the listener into his world, much as if one were sitting across the table from him. He speaks candidly, openly about the mistakes in his life and the ups/downs of his career, while sharing as if with a smile some laughable incidents.
There’s much honesty and truth in his autobiography STORIES I ONLY TELL MY FRIENDS. He has a great many stories to tell from fame at the tender age of 15 to watching a movie from the foot of Cary Grant’s bed when he was dating Grant’s daughter, Jennifer.
That was surely heady stuff for a boy from Dayton, Ohio, who was wounded by his parents’ bitter divorce and wound up in Malibu in the mid seventies where neighbors were Sheens and Penns. It was from there that he began to concentrate on seeking an acting career. It has been a career of ups and downs, both professionally and emotionally. Happy to say he’s come out on top as an actor and businessman. He’s been happily married to Sheryl for 20 years and is the proud father of two sons.
In between the happy ending there was a romance with Princess Stephanie and the murder of a friend, a bout with alcoholism and stays in rehab. His reminiscences about such luminaries as Andy Warhol, Demi Moore, President Clinton, Jodie Foster, Jane Fonda and others are priceless.
Many of us may remember him primarily for his iconic role on “The West Wing,” but after listening to his story we’re sure there’s a great deal more to come.
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