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"I have known Scotty Bowers for the better part of a century. I'm so pleased that he has finally decided to tell his story to the world. His startling memoir includes great figures like Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn. Scotty doesn't lie-the stars sometimes do--and he knows "everybody.""--Gore Vidal
"A picaresque romp that unabashedly uncover long-hidden sexual scandals during Hollywood's golden years."--John Rechy, author of "City of Night"
"Scotty Bowers's memoir is a jaw-dropping firsthand account of closeted life in Hollywood during the '40s and '50s. The wholesome image of the post-war 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."-Griffin Dunne, Actor/Director
"They said he'd never talk--but at long last, the legendary Scotty Bowers has told his --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
"A picaresque romp that unabashedly uncover long-hidden sexual scandals during Hollywood's golden years."--John Rechy, author of "City of Night"
"Scotty Bowers's memoir is a jaw-dropping firsthand account of closeted life in Hollywood during the '40s and '50s. The wholesome image of the post-war 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."-Griffin Dunne, Actor/Director
"They said he'd never talk--but at long last, the legendary Scotty Bowers has told his --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
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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 young, attractive, and sexually free-spirited friends. His own lovers included Edith Piaf, Spencer Tracy, Vivien Leigh, Cary Grant, and the abdicated King of England Edward VIII, and 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.Full Service is not only a fascinating chronicle of Hollywood's sexual underground, but also exposes the hypocrisy of the major studios, who used actors to propagate a myth of a conformist, sexually innocent America, knowing full well that their stars' personal lives differed dramatically from this family-friendly mold. As revelation-filled as Hollywood Babylon, Full Service provides a lost chapter in the history of the sexual revolution and is a testament to a man who provided sex, support, and affection to countless people.
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This man was so sexually active it's a wonder his equipment didn't fall off from so much use! Still it was interesting and even though some was hard to imagine other stories were not.
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not sure why I ordered this, but have found 2 typos and I'm only at Page 48; was the other person involved not editing this?Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars he could at least have spelled Katharine Hepburn's name correctly, and if he's claiming some sort of friendship with the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, he should know that he was never called "Eddie", his name was David ... not sure if I'll go much further - and how true is it?
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Nothing left out and Plenty of Surprises,
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Somehow I was surprised that this was so well-written. Scotty Bowers seems like a nice, charming guy with boundless energy, curiosity and a great appetite for life who seems to have never had the slightest hang-up about sex. Of course having killer good looks and body didn't hurt. An interesting subtext about how witnessing real horror at Guadalcanal and Iwo Jima increased his need to live fully.The book is overflowing with juicy, bizarre, often very surprising gossip which can be hilariously funny, sometimes sad, and frequently over-the-top salacious. All of the in-your-face sexuality and pathos is interesting because it involves people who were so idealized at the time - and some still are. Plenty of rumors are confirmed and legends shattered. This goes well beyond "Hollywood Babylon" in explicitness and naming names. A real page-turner. Definitely not a re-hash of tired, familiar stories or questionable speculation; Scotty knew and saw them all up close and decided his fascinating tale was worth sharing, now that most of the denizens of old Hollywood are gone. The book's tone is never mean-spirited. Gore Vidal calls the book startling and vouches for Scotty's veracity. For those with delicate sensibilities: approach with caution. Some readers will be offended by "distasteful" and unflattering details about favorite celebrities, but if you're going to tell this kind of story nowadays, you might as well go ALL the way, and Scotty does! There is an interesting article about Bowers and this book in the Sunday, Jan. 29th New York Times. A Vanity Fair writer and award-winning documentary film-maker has signed a deal to make a documentary about Scotty. As one reviewer said, you'll never look at Turner Classic Movies quite the same. (By the way, I don't know or have any connection at all with Scotty Bowers or the publisher.) Recommended. 35 of 41 people found the following review helpful
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The Oldest Man Alive,
By Kevin Killian - Published on Amazon.com
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I wouldn't give this one five stars, because it was pretty "badly written," but we live in an age of contingency and I don't really care about what's good or bad in that sense. Obviously the autobiography of Scotty Bowers, or any 88 year old, is going to be uphill sledding, but I come away from it liking the man and envying him his exciting life at the top of the heap, procuring for and tricking the stars (nd not only the stars but people like J Edgar Hoover and the Windsors).Once or twice I started to doubt the accuracy of his memories. Not the Spencer Tracy story, the one has so many of my fellow reviewers hollering, but just little things. For example, Scotty attests that he procured young girls for Katharine Hepburn, the Duchess of Windsor, and Phyllis Gates, once the wife of Rock Hudson. Is it a coincidence that, as he remembers them, all three preferred "slim, small, dark-haired trim-figured girls?" Or was it just that he couldn't remember and dragged out the same tag any time his "as told to" guy asked him for a preference. On the other hand, I was impressed that the first star we hear of him having sex with was not someone super famous or legendary like James Dean, but instead the sort of forgotten Walter Pidgeon. Come on, if you were asking the whole thing up, wouldn't you start chapter one with somebody people remember, instead of gentlemanly, intellectual-ish, "Pidge"? It had the ring of truth to me, just because Pidgeon's fame is so nondescript. I was also impressed that unlike every other star autobiography, Scotty didn't claim to have had sex with Marilyn Monroe. I have new respect for Desi Arnaz as well, a man so generous that he gave his girls $200 or $300 a throw when the standard price was twenty bucks. Sad, sad, sad, was the story of Scotty and Betty's precious daughter Donna. I just didn't see it coming! I had no idea how bad Katharine Hepburn's complexion was; at any rate Bowers describes it here as a cross between old burlap and brand new steel wool. She always looks so good in the movies! Oh, and I wish I was a fly on the wall of the closet into which Scotty sneaked in order to watch Bob Hope have sex with the super glamorous starlet slash tart Barbara Payton! I never thought of Bob Hope as sexy before, but Scotty saw the man in action and it wasn't just a ski nose on Hope! I don't suppose he ever got any sleep, but Scotty Bowers remembers a lot of risque 30s slang, some of which was totally new to me, the acronyms "BLC" and "PTM," and also his peculiar use of the verb "to trick." My own sex life hsn't been as long as Scotty's, but I never heard of "trick" as a transitive verb, "We both tricked Spencer Tracy," rather than as I would say, "We both tricked with" well, name your own more modernday closeted star. 10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
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By MG - Published on Amazon.com
I wish I could get my money back, this was an awful book. Seems to be uncredited bragging. I do not recommend!
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