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Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars - Scotty Bowers, Lionel Friedberg
Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars
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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,... show more
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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Format: hardcover
ISBN: 9780802120076 (0802120075)
ASIN: 802120075
Publisher: Grove Press
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
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HowardG
HowardG rated it
I have no idea if this guy is full of it or not, but Gore Vidal and some others vouch for him. And he doesn't seem out to hurt anyone, only portray what a good time he had pleasing people. He seems pretty happy-go-lucky, and his rollicking adventures with golden age stars are a real hoot. There is s...
A Scottish-Canadian Blethering On About Books
A Scottish-Canadian Blethering On About Books rated it
2.0 Full Service
Not sure whether I should feel ashamed at having this book on my virtual shelf or not. I clicked it on a whim from my local public eLibrary, and ended up enjoying it a little bit more than the usual breathless Hollywood Babylon-type stuff. It's definitely salacious, but I don't find it malicious. It...
A Man With An Agenda
A Man With An Agenda rated it
2.0 Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars
I knew what I was getting into with this book, I was told when it was given to me that it was absolutely filthy and would tarnish every sterling reputation in Hollywood. I was not disappointed as Bowers' memoir delivers all that and more.The list of stars is never-ending and, while I firmly believe ...
Kathryn Lively, Reader
Kathryn Lively, Reader rated it
2.0
A number of readers doubt the author is telling the truth, and to be fair the stories of lurid Hollywood sex seem unbelievable. Scotty Bowers alleges to have turned hundreds of trick, many with big names from the 40s onward. The book to me read like an X-rated version of Forrest Gump - the man was e...
Melody Murray's Books
Melody Murray's Books rated it
1.0 Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars
So poorly written it's hard to believe. Not that I expected fine literature, going in, mind you. I expected garbage with a side of Katherine Hepburn gossip. What I got was just... icky. Bowers is so smarmily self-congratulatory it's sickening, and such a bad writer it's jaw-dropping. Way, way worse ...
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