Some of you have probably been worried about what has become of Rob Lowe since he left the quirky comforts of Pawnee and “Parks and Recreation” last year. You have good reason to be. Turns out, he married a stripper who had him brutally murdered.
Mr. Lowe is the central figure and victim in “Beautiful & Twisted,” a made-for-television movie that has its premiere Saturday night on Lifetime. It is based on the headline-grabbing case of Ben Novack Jr., a hotel heir who was found dead in a hotel in Rye Brook, N.Y., in 2009. The Spanish actress Paz Vega plays his wife, Narcy, who was sentenced to life in prison for orchestrating the murder.
And who has the classic features necessary to play the mother of Mr. Lowe’s character convincingly? Candice Bergen, that’s who. She too, alas, meets a gruesome end in this bizarre case, which is full of sex and greed and Batman collectibles (Mr. Novack’s hobby).
The story is cheekily told here, and pretty well, if you don’t mind “cheeky” as the tone for a tale in which real people died. Mr. Lowe gets to narrate his own demise, even though among the first things we see is his corpse being shelved in a morgue, because on TV you can do that sort of thing.
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