Rob Lowe keeps on grinding

Lowe (right) and Savage star as brothers in 'The Grinder'. Photo: Fox International Channels

Rob Lowe swanned into the room and eased into a chair. He was between takes on the Fox lot in Century City and decided to kill a few minutes chatting with a visitor.

This was not Painfully Awkward Rob Lowe nor Super Creepy Rob Lowe nor Crazy Hairy Rob Lowe nor any of the other iterations seen in his recent series of popular commercials for DirecTV.