{"id":167,"date":"2011-06-04T14:13:20","date_gmt":"2011-06-04T18:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/changingchannels\/?p=167"},"modified":"2011-06-04T14:20:44","modified_gmt":"2011-06-04T18:20:44","slug":"parks-recs-rob-lowe-more-than-a-pretty-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/changingchannels\/2011\/06\/parks-recs-rob-lowe-more-than-a-pretty-boy.html","title":{"rendered":"Parks & Rec’s Rob Lowe: not just a pretty boy"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am comfortable enough with myself on enough levels to write this:<\/p>\n

Rob Lowe is a handsome man.<\/p>\n

That gift from God aside, Lowe also happens to be a heckuva actor with film titles like The Outsiders, Wayne’s World, St. Elmo’s Fire <\/em>and hit television programs like West Wing<\/em> and Parks and Recreation<\/em> on his resume.<\/p>\n

As if there isn’t enough to be jealous of Lowe for, he is also a successful author including his latest tome Stories I Only Tell My Friends.\u00a0\"\"<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Lowe, 47, has as many stories as he has friends. The recovering alcoholic, now sober for two decades, was a passenger on the terrorists dry run on a plane a week before 9-11.<\/p>\n

After years of being tabloid fodder for his on-again off-again relationship with Melissa Gilbert, Lowe is gracefully entering his mid-life years with wife Sheryl Berkoff and their two kids.<\/p>\n

Aside from an unnecessary exchange with Ellen Degeneres about, ahem, “relationships”\u00a0 on a recent appearance on her show, Lowe’s behavior is low-key and clean.<\/p>\n

He is terrific as a straight man to play off the comedy of Amy Poehler, Chris Pratt and Nick Offerman in Parks and Recreation<\/em>.<\/p>\n

While 30 Rock<\/em> and Community have veered off track a bit this season, Parks and Rec<\/em>reation is on a high thanks in large part to Lowe.<\/p>\n

And I mean that literally.<\/p>\n

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