Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Live of the Stars *[Book]
Now the subject of the hit documentary Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood, praised by Vanity Fair as “full of revelations” and Entertainment Weekly as “deliciously salacious,” Full Service is the remarkable true story of Scotty Bowers, the “gentleman hustler,” during the heyday of classic Hollywood. Newly discharged from the Marines after World War II, 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. Read more
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Life & sex are both incredibly complicated & very simple. I absolutely appreciate Scotty Bowers attitude towards both. Hollywood, as a town and an industry, is both as well. The movies sell make believe, fantasy, pseudo reality as well as sexuality. Scotty Bowers kind of did the same. Sex is a very natural thing. It’s society that puts labels and changing morals on sex and people. But if you strip those away you have consenting people enjoying themselves. Scotty provided a service or connecting people. But he wasn’t a pimp. He didn’t make money off of connecting two people for sex. If they chose to make it a financial thing then that was their agreement. But Bowers did it because he didn’t carry the stigma and bullshit of the negative labels society places on sex and sexuality. And in a town/ industry such as Hollywood there are many people who needed assistance for whatever reason when it came to connecting with others for sex. The sad reality of bigotry towards gay people is that their natural sexual desires were/ are labeled as deviant, sick, perverted, etc. When in reality it’s just sex which is a very natural human instinct. Hollywood sells entertainment and such but those who made that entertainment, be they in front of the camera or behind it, were held to ridiculous standards of how they were supposed to act when out in public. Studios arranged sham marriages because they were afraid bigots wouldn’t understand a male actor who makes romantic heterosexual comedies was actually a gay man. And since they (the studios) see that gay actor as a commodity they’d force him to marry a woman so the studios could continue to sell the actor as a heterosexual icon. This was terrible on many levels. So how does that man find the sexual happiness that he desires? Well that’s where Scotty Bowers came in. He helped people find happiness in a very judgmental and bigoted world. As a Los Angeles native and a fan/ researcher of Hollywood history... I was very pleased with this book. While I was aware of some of the stories... This book added to my knowledge of that very complicated yet simple village/ industry known as Hollywood. Kudos to you, Scotty.
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