Fed: Rob Lowe poses for cameras, but turns down a chat
By Anthony Stavrinos
SYDNEY, April 26 AAP - Hollywood actor Rob Lowe plays a journalist in his latest filmbut today he wouldn't have a bar of them.
But apparently he can pick a good horse.
The star recently signed on to shoot the spooky $US15 million ($A24.4 million) televisionmini-series Salem's Lot, in Australia.
Hobnobbing it with Sydney's social set at Royal Randwick racecourse today, Lowe brieflyposed for photographs with his co-star Samantha Mathis, but knocked back several requestsfor a chat.
Lowe, 39, was a teen idol in the 1980s after starring in films like St Elmo's Fireand Youngblood. In recent years he was one of the leads in the US TV series The West Wingbut the actor left the show last year.
Closely watched by two bodyguards today, Lowe enjoyed all the swanky trimmings of thethird day of the San Miguel Australian Jockey Club (AJC) Autumn Carnival, sipping on champagneand having an occasional punt.
Just before race number five, Georgette Jackson, a Qantas Lounge hospitality workerwas one of the few people to briefly chat with Lowe, a fellow guest in the Emirates marquee.
Ms Jackson walked away financially better for it.
"I just happened to be there and I didn't have my glasses and couldn't read the guide,"
she told AAP.
"He (Lowe) said `I'd back Pentastic' so I went back to the betting counter, drooling,dribbling ... and put five bucks on it."
She said the $24 windfall wasn't a big win, but more than she started with.
The Australian film industry, suffering from a lack of big-budget US television movies,has its fingers crossed the Salem's Lot mini-series will spark similar American TV shootsdown-under.
Production on Salem's Lot began in Melbourne this month.
US cable TV network, TNT, is funding the mini-series based on author Stephen King'sbest-selling novel about an American town overrun by vampires.
In Salem's Lot, Lowe will play a journalist who returns to his home town and discoversit has been taken over by vampires.
The AJC also hosted about 100 drought-affected farmers, transporting them in four busloadsfrom Tamworth, Dubbo and Port Macquarie, and providing them with free entry today as wellas two nights hotel accommodation.
NSW Minister for Tourism, Sport and Recreation, Sandra Nori, congratulated the AJC on it gesture.
"There is no doubt that farming communities have had to contend with devastating droughtconditions," Ms Nori said.
"These tough times have helped bring city and country closer together and today isa symbolic way to celebrate that bond."
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