A Bit of Optimism · 2025-09-23 · 62 min · 12,078 words

Rob Lowe Names Names: The Power of ‘Screw It’

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So you decide to do a sock and dance for the opening of the Oscars. Can't dance, really. Okay, okay. I mean, I didn't get foot loose for a reason. A reason.

For a reason, right. And it doesn't go well, is what you're saying? It doesn't go well. It doesn't go well. The there was an open letter to the Academy the next day.

signed by like Paul Newman and Gregory Peck and like this was an affront to our sensibility. How dare I I mean I looked I looked out in the audience and I saw it was the night Barry Levinson won 10 Academy Awards for Rain Man. Yeah and I literally saw him. Mouth, what the fuck? Didn't go well.

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