Love Life

Publisher Marketing: On the heels of his "New York Times" bestselling "Stories I Only Tell My Friends," Rob Lowe is back with an entertaining collection that "invites readers into his world with easy charm and disarming frankness" ("Kirkus Reviews"). After the incredible response to his acclaimed bestseller, "Stories I Only Tell My Friends," Rob Lowe was convinced to mine his experiences for even more stories. The result is "Love Life," a memoir about men and women, actors and producers, art and commerce, fathers and sons, movies and TV, addiction and recovery, sex and love. Among the adventures he describes in these pages are: - His visit, as a young man, to Hugh Hefner's Playboy Mansion, where the naive actor made a surprising discovery in the hot tub.- The time, as a boy growing up in Malibu, he discovered a vibrator belonging to his best friend's mother.- What it's like to be the star and producer of a flop TV show.- How an actor prepares, for "Californification," "Parks and Recreation," and numerous other roles.- His hilarious account of coaching a kid's basketball team dominated by helicopter parents.- How his great, great, great, great, great grandfather may have inspired everything from his love of "The West Wing" to his taste in classic American architecture.- His first visit to college, with his son, who is going to receive the education his father never got.- The time a major movie star stole his girlfriend. Linked by common themes and his philosophical perspective on love--and life--Lowe's writing "is loaded with showbiz anecdotes, self-deprecating tales, and has a general sweetness" ("New York Post"). Review Citations: Audio File 06/01/2014 pg. 43 (EAN 9781442367333, Compact Disc) Publishers Weekly 06/30/2014 (EAN 9781442367333, Compact Disc) - *Starred Review Library Journal 09/01/2014 pg. 62 (EAN 9781442367333, Compact Disc) Booklist 04/15/2014 pg. 10 (EAN 9781451685756, Open Ebook) - *Starred Review Entertainment Weekly 01/17/2014 pg. 47 (EAN 9781451685718, Hardcover) Kirkus Reviews 04/01/2014 (EAN 9781451685718, Hardcover) Booklist 04/15/2014 pg. 10 (EAN 9781451685718, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Publishers Weekly 04/14/2014 (EAN 9781451685718, Hardcover) Entertainment Weekly 04/11/2014 pg. 66 (EAN 9781451685718, Hardcover) People Weekly 04/21/2014 pg. 56 (EAN 9781451685718, Hardcover) Shelf Awareness 04/22/2014 (EAN 9781451685718, Hardcover) New York Times Book Review 05/18/2014 pg. 20 (EAN 9781451685718, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Lowe, Rob Rob Lowe is a film, television, and theater actor; a producer; and an entrepreneur. He is also involved in politics and is the author of Stories I Only Tell My Friends: An Autobiography". He lives in Los Angeles.