![]() ![]() ![]() Only later can we look back in the comfort that perspective brings. It read like one long name-dropping roster. We get our hearts broken and we suffer.And we feel all of these highs and lows in our absolute core it feels as if it’s never happened to anyone else because it’s never happened to us before. Concentrating on his life and career up to his time on The West Wing, Rob Lowe’s surprisingly tough-minded memoir, Stories I Only Tell My Friends, effectively argues that the Brat. I am not really a celebrity fan so the rest of the "book" was annoying. (Use heavily sarcastic voice here.) Lowe's jealousy of the other actors, especially Matt Damon, is so obvious and really left a bad taste in my mouth. I'm sure the movie would have been so much better with this scene in it. Apparently the most disappointing part of Lowe's whole experience of The Outsiders was that his big moment, his artistic pinnacle as an actor, was completely removed from the final film version. I agree with him that much of the beautiful story was left out of the film. I was very excited when Lowe started talking about his own personal experiences while reading the book. It has remained a favorite book of mine since I was a teen it was the first novel I ever taught in a classroom and, it was the first time a movie affected me so deeply. I read this because The Outsiders has been so important in my life. It would be unfair to judge the memoir based on this chapter yet, it was so bad it completely erased any desire I had to read Lowe's memoir. This is a small slice from a larger book, Lowe's memoir Stories I Only Tell My Friends. ![]()
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