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    "parsed_content": "My TenRob LoweDen\u00e9e BentonTrinity Tatum and Bryce AlakaiTiffanyLeo WoodallAdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTSupported bySKIP ADVERTISEMENTMy TenRob Lowe Watches \u2018The Godfather\u2019 With His DogsNow that his sons are out of the house, the actor said, \u201cour dogs are now actually our kids, and they sit and watch TV with us.\u201dShare full articleCredit...Charles Sykes\/Invision, via Associated PressBy Addie MorfootSept. 19, 2026See more of our coverage in your search results.Encuentra m\u00e1s de nuestra cobertura en los resultados de b\u00fasqueda. Add The New York Times on GoogleAgrega The New York Times en Google When Rob Lowe was asked to play a smarmy middle school principal in the new film \u201cThe Musical,\u201d his answer was an immediate yes.The movie, directed by Giselle Bonilla and written by Alexander Heller, had a shoestring budget, but Lowe, 62, didn\u2019t care. \u201cIt was so audacious and smart and breathtaking and just delicious,\u201d he said in a video call from his home in Santa Barbara, Calif.In \u201cThe Musical,\u201d Lowe\u2019s character, Principal Brady, is the nemesis of Doug (Will Brill), a nerdy theater teacher whose ex-girlfriend is dating Brady. To ruin Brady\u2019s reputation, Doug swaps the school\u2019s planned production of \u201cWest Side Story\u201d for a secret one he\u2019s written about the Sept. 11 attacks. In Doug\u2019s conspiracist take on 9\/11, Rudy Giuliani break dances and Osama bin Laden moonwalks.\u201cThat anybody could think of doing a musical about 9\/11 is so repellent that it\u2019s hilarious,\u201d Lowe said.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTIn an interview, he discussed his favorite things, among them family, a sleep mask, \u201cBorat,\u201d and yacht rock. These are edited excerpts from the conversation.My Wife and SonsI don\u2019t have a bunch of dudes that I travel the world with. My family is my posse. We have been thick as thieves and a really close family since the beginning, and part of that was by design. I lived a very big life in my earlier years \u2014 saw a lot, did a lot and left it all on the field, as they say.My DogsWe have had dogs forever. Usually, we have about five. Dogs are just a great source of comfort, companionship and unconditional love. When the kids left the house, it went to a whole other level. Our dogs are now actually our kids, and they sit and watch TV with us. We all watched \u201cThe Godfather\u201d last night for the thousandth time.My Fire PitSometimes I literally meditate there. Other times it\u2019s fire gazing. And then other times, I might have a cigar with some buddies. But there is something about sitting around a fire at night that is in our DNA as humans.SurfingI learned to surf really late in life, at 40. It has become a lifelong passion that I absolutely love. But I\u2019m glad I didn\u2019t learn when I was 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, because I wonder if the surf was great, would I have gotten on that public bus in the heat and gone the 90 miles into Los Angeles to audition for a one-line part that I probably wasn\u2019t going to get? I don\u2019t know if I would have. I\u2019m glad I did.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTWritingMy mother wrote every single day of her life. She was an English teacher, so I grew up around language, and I grew up around punctuation, and the Oxford comma. By the way, I\u2019m a fan. I\u2019m writing my third book currently, which is a punchy, get in, get out, nobody gets hurt, self-help book. As someone who basically tells stories for a living, whether it\u2019s on film or TV or on the stage, writing is really the only discipline where it\u2019s all you for good or for ill. The way I feel about it is like that Mark Twain quote, \u201cI hate writing, but I love having written.\u201dMy Sleep MaskWhat do I panic over if I feel like I didn\u2019t pack? One hundred percent, my sleep mask. Because sleep is a huge part of my life. That\u2019s where I dream, and dreaming for me is where I get my inspiration. The only thing you need to know about masks is that they need to be cupped around your eyes so you can\u2019t feel your eyelashes. I\u2019m blessed\/cursed with the eyelashes of Elizabeth Taylor, so I need a super duper, shaped-like-an-egg one or I can\u2019t use it.My 36-Year Sobriety ChipGoing to rehab and getting sober was the greatest decision I ever made. I learned how to live my life properly there. I never, never looked back.BaseballI watch every Dodgers game. People who say baseball is boring don\u2019t fully appreciate the nuances of the sport. In an era where our attention spans are getting shorter and shorter and shorter, and everything is about clickbait, and \u201clook over here at the shiny object,\u201d the notion that baseball exists in its own sort of cadence is, for me, incredibly comforting.\u2018Borat\u2019I first watched it in a theater in Santa Barbara with my son Matthew. It is one of those movies that you are just glad somehow got made and exists forever. It reminds you to be bold and not afraid to take big swings.Yacht RockI was making \u201cParks and Recreation,\u201d and I was listening to music, and the brilliant Rashida Jones was like, \u201cOh, so you\u2019re a big yacht rock guy.\u201d That\u2019s how I found out what yacht rock is. I\u2019m obsessed with what constitutes yacht rock. It\u2019s a great parlor game I like to play with people.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT",
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