So what does he think about Sheen’s outrageous actions today? Lowe measures his words carefully. Lowe writes about his partying spree with Sheen in 1986 when they were both on location in New York City - Lowe was making “Masquerade” and Sheen was starring in “Wall Street.” Lowe said Sheen won the contest “by a nose.” Sheen was quite the character even then, wearing a bulletproof vest under his clothes to school. When Lowe, his mother and sibling moved to Malibu from Ohio in the 1970s, Lowe became tight with Emilio Estevez and Charlie Sheen and hung out at the Sheen household in Malibu. It is a much different time, although the issues are still round.”
But we were coming out of the ‘60s and ‘70s film industry. “There is much less tolerance in Hollywood - the stuff that used to go on would not be tolerated today. Still, he admits, Hollywood turned a blind eye to such excessive behavior in the 1980s. If I had been a lawyer or a doctor or a tennis pro, I probably would have had very similar issues.” “I am an alcoholic,” he says matter-of-factly. The actor doesn’t think it was a case of too much too soon that lead to him abusing alcohol. Lowe talks about everything in “Stories I Only Tell My Friends,” such as finding his first brush with success on an ABC sitcom at the age of 15, and his romances with Melissa Gilbert and Princess Stephanie among many others, and his relentless partying, the infamous 1988 sex tape, his 1989 disastrous appearance on the Academy Awards, his realization in 1990 that he was an alcoholic, his happy, 20-year marriage to makeup artist Sheryl Berkoff and why he left his role as Sam Seaborn on “The West Wing” after four seasons. We have incoming calls from people who know we have the rights to things. The deal just closed 90 days ago and we have been culling from the 250 books and scripts in various stages of development that Harvey and Bob spent untold millions getting to this point. “It’s really obvious that it’s the one thing I would be able to bring to the table with my area of expertise navigating the relationships with Hollywood. “The first acquisition in our media fund was Miramax,” he explains. The movie company that was created by Harvey and Bob Weinstein was recently bought by several investors.
Lowe is an investment partner with Tom Barrack and Colony Capital, which has a stake in Miramax. This afternoon, Lowe is sitting in his sunny office at Miramax in Santa Monica. But as anyone who saw his shirtless pose on the cover of the recent Vanity Fair can attest, time has been kind for the eternally handsome Lowe. The former “Brat Pack” heartthrob of such films as 1983’s “The Outsiders” and 1985’s “St.
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