European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 19, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Of Lowe by Bob Thomas associated press of Lowe does no to think anyone had a worse summer than he did except maybe the dodgers. Lowe was trying to add lightness to a trim subject his involvement in a sex scandal and his efforts to resume his film career. Quot you have to have a sense of humor about it he Quot you have to look at things in the Long run. I knew c when this movie came out people would be i minded of who i am and what i do. That is that i m an Virtor and i do have a private life and everybody s late life gets out of control at one time or another. We re All human. We All make mistakes. I made my mistakes and it got away from me for a bit no different irom anyone else. As in be said before i made a mistake Jand i tried to live up to it. I Don t try to pretend that it fever happened. It did happen and we All go  i every watcher of the scandal sheets and their a television counterparts knows what happened. While a attending the democratic National convention in the summer of 1988, Lowe made a videotape of sex involving himself and two Young women in his Atlanta hotel room. Claims and counterclaims rebounded and Lowe agreed to do 20 hours of Community service to avoid prosecution for allegedly seducing one of the women then a 16-year-old. Her mothers suit against Lowe is pending. The scandal is returning to the spotlight with the release of Lowe s new movie bearing the wry title of \ bad influence. He portrays a charming drifter who invites a humdrum businessman James Spader into los Angeles fast Lane life of drugs and lawlessness. Lowe videotapes Spader in a sex episode and Lowe is i seen in bed with two women. Quot this is due to the totally coincidental nature of life imitating Art and Art imitating life Quot declares Steve Tisch the movies producer. Quot its almost life and Art having a head on  Lowe tried to minimize the coincidence of the two i sequences Quot they work so Well to further the Story. They Are plot devices. The videotaping in the movie is to capture what happened in order to get somebody. If the Story had taken place 70 years ago i would have found a diary. Fifty years ago it would have been the audio recording. In today s society it s videotape. Quot it s used so widely As a device in movies today. Sure i had a videotape controversy but when you consider allies and videotape the movies where videotape is used its not really that big a Deal. If it had been an elaborate sequence we might have thought twice about removing it. But then what would i use to trap him if not that a Curtis Hanson director of bad influence commented that the sex scene with Lowe and the two women was necessary Quot because through most of the picture Rob is the Force who causes things to happen we needed to see him As a  Lowe was originally cast in the Spader role but he opted to play the evil Alex fashioning him after classic villains from Lago to Michael Douglas Gordon Gekko in Wall Street. The actor usually creates his own Quot Back Story Quot of his film characters but not this time. Quot Curtis told me you can to apply the usual principles to someone like Alex he is totally a redeemable. Bad influence was in pre production when the Atlanta scandal broke. Lowe was attending the Cannes film festival and returned immediately to Confer with Tisch about continuing with the film. Lowe never considered withdrawing. Whether bad influence succeeds or not its Likely that Lowe s Persona both on and off screen will never be the same. During his Brief film career his striking Good looks often cast him As a somewhat impish Yuppie. In his personal life he was known As a supporter of environmental and Liberal causes and companion of such beauties As actress Melissa Gilbert and Princess Stephanie of Monaco. Lowe was born in Charlottesville and grew up in Dayton Ohio where he surprised his lawyer father by announcing at 9 that he intended to become an actor. He appeared in 30 stage plays by the age of 12, then his family moved to los Angeles. At 15 he appeared in a to series a new kind of family at 18, he was picked by Francis Coppola for the outsiders St. Elmo s fire provided his first adult role As a burned out sax player then came about last night and Square dance which won him a Golden Globe nomination As a mentally disabled Young Man. Unlike his co Star Spader who shuns the Media Lowe faced a series of interviews for the film s opening and responded to All questions. He was asked if his looks had been a drawback in winning some roles Quot i m sure it s possible Quot he replied. Quot there Are a lot of movies being made today with Guys who look like they could be delivering your paper just average Guys Quot for better or worse i have a distinctive look i was born with it there s nothing i can do about it. I personally Don t give it a thought other than when people ask me about it in interviews. If i had a different face they might be asking if you were Only 5 inches taller. Quot As Gilda Radner used to say it s always something Quot stripes classified your weekly marketplace or the a Check to characters and spaces per Linen maximum. Multiply rate by number of times and is to run. The headline for each week s classified and Section is monday 4 . Ads received after monday will Appo in the following week s paper. No phone orders will be accepted. 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