Scotty Bowers. (2012). Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars. Grove Atlantic.

Scotty Bowers. 2012. Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars. Grove Atlantic.

Scotty Bowers, Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars. Grove Atlantic, 2012.

Scotty Bowers. Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars. Grove Atlantic, 2012.

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The legendary hustler of Old Hollywood reveals thirty years of scandalous secrets in this tell-all memoir of Tinseltown's X-rated underworld.
Newly discharged from the Marines after World War II, Scotty Bowers arrived in Hollywood in 1946. Young, charismatic, and strikingly handsome, he quickly caught the eye of many of the town's stars and starlets. He began sleeping with some himself, and connecting others with his coterie of sexually free-spirited friends. For decades, he kept their explosive secrets under wraps—but now he tells all in Full Service.
Scotty's own lovers included Edith Piaf, Spencer Tracy, Vivien Leigh, Cary Grant, and the abdicated King of England Edward VIII. He arranged tricks or otherwise crossed paths with Tennessee Williams, Charles Laughton, Vincent Price, Katharine Hepburn, Rita Hayworth, Errol Flynn, Gloria Swanson, Noël Coward, Mae West, James Dean, Rock Hudson and J. Edgar Hoover, to name but a few.
A fascinating chronicle of Hollywood's sexual underground, Full Service also exposes the hypocrisy of the studio system that propagate a myth of a conformist, sexually innocent America. Scotty Bowers provides a vital lost chapter in the history of the sexual revolution.

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   • source: Brooks Barnes, New York Times
   • content: “Mr. Bowers, 88, recalls his highly unorthodox life in a ribald memoir . . . [A] lurid, no-detail-too-excruciating account of a sexual Zelig who (if you believe him) trawled an X-rated underworld for over three decades without getting caught. . . . [A] lot of what Mr. Bowers has to say is pretty shocking. . . . Full Service at the very least highlights how sharply the rules of engagement for reporting celebrity gossip have changed. . . . [I]t's much harder to keep details as salacious as the ones Mr. Bowers outlines under wraps."
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   • source: Griffin Dunne, Actor/Director
   • content: "A jaw-dropping firsthand account of closeted life in Hollywood during the '40s and '50s. The wholesome image of the postwar American family was acted, written, directed, and designed by people for whom such a life was never possible and Bowers writes about their pain and brilliance with the childlike wonder of Chauncey Gardiner. Turner Classic Movies will never quite look the same."
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   • source: Anthony Lane, The New Yorker
   • content: “[Scotty Bowers] made his reputation by sleeping with everyone in Hollywood who wasn't actually Lassie, and now he tells all. If you ever suspected that Spencer Tracy was bisexual and Tyrone Power a coprophiliac, and if you happen to believe everything you read, here is all the testimony you require."
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   • source: Vanity Fair
   • content: “[Q]uel scandale!"
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   • source: Janet Maslin, The New York Times
   • content: “This handsome ex-Marine and his friendly gas station have long been alluded to in Hollywood memoirs. And now, at last, they go public."
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   • source: Chicago Tribune
   • content: “[A] tell-all book . . . .Cary Grant, Rock Hudson, George Cukor, Katharine Hepburn and Vivien Leigh are among those named by Bowers, now 88. . . . Younger readers--at least those raised in the Internet and TMZ age--may find nearly as shocking the fact that the stories were squelched by studio publicists and remained largely under wraps back in the day."
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   • source: The Atlantic Wire
   • content: “Connoisseurs of lurid tell-alls and the golden age of Hollywood will almost certainly be entranced by Full Service."
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   • source: David Patrick Columbia, New York Social Diary
   • content: “The Scotty I knew was a guy who always seemed to be enjoying his life working morning, noon and night, with never a gripe; always with a smile to greet you, and never with an axe to grind. After a lifetime in Hollywood, that's a remarkable feat and its own kind of Zen."
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   • source: William J. Mann, author of Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburn
   • content: "They said he'd never talk -- but at long last, the legendary Scotty Bowers has told his story, with all the honesty, compassion and insight that made him a confidant of movie stars, directors, billionaires, and politicians. Bowers knew Hollywood like no one else, invited behind closed doors to observe firsthand the true stories of America's dream factory. This is juicy, juicy stuff--but just as importantly, it's a seminal chapter of American popular culture that gives us a richer understanding of the people, times, and culture of Hollywood's Golden Age."
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    • source: John Rechy, author of City of Night
    • content: "A picaresque romp that unabashedly uncovers long-hidden sexual scandals during Hollywood's golden years."
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    • source: Huffington Post
    • content: “Delicious with every salacious detail . . . The photographs alone are worth the price of admission."
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    • source: The Guardian (UK)
    • content: “Controversial . . . vivid . . . As well as a titillating catalogue of sexual intrigue, the book is designed to expose of the hypocrisy and fear that swirled beneath the industry's on-screen glamour and crafted wholesomeness. . . . [Bowers] dramatically describes the climate of fear in an era when he worked as a bartender at Hollywood parties while the LAPD vice squad were prowling the hills in their patrol cars looking for parties and opportunities to arrest the participants."
13. • premium: False
    • source: The Daily Express (UK)
    • content: “After five years maintaining that sex secrets of Tinseltown's elite, at the age of 88, Bowers is revealing all in a sensational new memoir."
14. • premium: False
    • source: The Daily Mail (UK)
    • content: “Full Service opens the doors of the closeted, X-rated underworld of old Hollywood...

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Newly discharged from the Marines after World War II, Scotty Bowers arrived in Hollywood in 1946. Young, charismatic, and strikingly handsome, he quickly caught the eye of many of the town's stars and starlets. He began sleeping with some himself, and connecting others with his coterie of sexually free-spirited friends. For decades, he kept their explosive secrets under wraps—but now he tells all in Full Service.
Scotty's own lovers included Edith Piaf, Spencer Tracy, Vivien Leigh, Cary Grant, and the abdicated King of England Edward VIII. He arranged tricks or otherwise crossed paths with Tennessee Williams, Charles Laughton, Vincent Price, Katharine Hepburn, Rita Hayworth, Errol Flynn, Gloria Swanson, Noël Coward, Mae West, James Dean, Rock Hudson and J. Edgar Hoover, to name but a few.
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