Fumarama

Hugh Grant is awesome. Watching a Hugh Grant movie is like one of those recurring SNL sketches, where you take the same character and put him in different situations. Awkward, funny british guy attends four weddings and then a funeral, awkward british guy falls in love with a famous actress, awkward British guy as new prime minister of England, and now awkward british guy as aging 80s pop singer. I once saw him on Inside the Actors Studio (back when I found that show interesting as opposed to pretentious) and he played awkward, funny British guy as actor doing an interview. And it never gets old! And even better...he does not ruin it by trying to stretch or change.

Now I am not saying every actor needs to do this...but you know, if you are really good at playing one thing, and audiences like it...

So this brings me to Rob Lowe. I loved him on the West Wing. And then he did a bunch of things that as far as I could tell was lame. However, he recently joined the cast of Brothers and Sisters as an idealistic (and absurdly liberal) Republican senator. And, my god, he is dreamy. He was supposed to only be on for a few episodes but the audience responded so well that they kept him on. The man has found his niche in idealistic young politicos. so it is very unlikely that Rob Lowe would listen to me (though he should!) but he should take the Hugh Grant route and play nothing else for the rest of his life.