If you want to know which celebrity liked turd sandwiches or which one wanted an uncircumcised male who hadn't washed for a while, this book is for you. But if you're looking for an unvarnished account of the closeted sexual shenanigans of Hollywood's Golden Age — and a good trashy read at the same time — then "Full Service" is the full enchilada. These recollections of Scotties are sensational as they include a list of the great and the good of Hollywood of that period and provide so much in widening our understanding of how that strange place works: it is stunning how this underworld went on without a blip on the radar.

He 'tricked', that is had rampant sex with hundreds of celebrated men, thousands, even tens of thousands, and a lot of women. But, if so, we will never know the full story: he is smart enough to know that that is not something to put in a memoir in the year 2012. The Atlantic Wire "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. Most earth-shakingly, perhaps, he relates how he was invited to a four-dude weekend where one of the men was J. It's the same format every time: some famous person rolls up to the gas station where Bowers worked, or meets him while he's bartending some swanky party, and propositions him, which leads to them doing all manner of sex stuff.In 2006, William Mann published Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburn, which is the best book written on Hepburn and her dream of herself.

And did he wait until all of his subjects were dead out of respect for them, or did he do so because there's nobody left to refute his tawdry stories about them?

I found the faux coyness the most irritating, where he'd dance around what he claimed two people (or more) did together, then in the next paragraph come out with thoroughly explicit language. Then again, many of the lesbians eventually claimed the word for themselves, so I guess it was all right. usually the stories that are more fleshed out and less "We did this and that and I don't remember when". Full Service is not only a fascinating chronicle of Hollywoods 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 th.

I felt like I was reading the trashiest, cattiest tabloid out there, only it was about stars of the 1950's. This book is truly revealing about how hollywood stars were forced to hide their true sexualities to maintain image and box office appeal. Cary Grant, Rock Hudson, George Cukor, Katharine Hepburn and Vivien Leigh are among those named by Bowers, now 88. Again, I don't know that we get to label other people's experiences, but what I can say is that reading about the ones Bowers describes was uncomfortable in the worst imaginable ways. He gets offered jobs and invitations to places few of even the innermost circles would ever get, all within minutes of meeting him.Bowers makes many claims about the sex lives of many people, most of whom were associated with the Hollywood movie industry during that period. Along the way, we get great insights into the Tracy-Hepburn relationship, Rock Hudson's promiscuity and decline, the history of L. A lot about the secret lives of these celebrities came out after their death, but not in such lurid and graphic detail. He shows no regrets and rationalizes that his life was dedicated to bringing ‘joy’ to a multitude of people. He was very good-looking, and flexible, so the "tricking" he speaks of began as servicing men who wanted blow jobs or more – Walter Pidgeon (Mr Miniver!

Scotty Bowers, a dashing young ex-Marine exuding sex appeal, arrived in Hollywood in 1946 and quickly caught the attention of many of the town's stars. That is a trick we are all learning that is gradually undermining the pursuit of – or the hope for – history. I don't doubt that countless celebrities were and are forced into studio-friendly relationships, and that Bowers and others like him had some crazy experiences with many of them. Young, charismatic, and strikingly handsome, he quickly caught the eye of many of the town€™s stars and starlets. If you know your Old Hollywood lore and are really familiar with the stars and second-tiers of Hollywood’s Golden Age, you’re going to have your mind blown with some of these stories.Working out of a gas station on Hollywood Boulevard, Bowers soon became the go-to guy for anyone looking for a bespoke sexual partner; no matter how outlandish the tastes, Scotty could find someone for everyone. Bowers has always maintained a very matter-of-fact attitude about the benefits of sex - and, apparently, for the most part that worked for him just fine. Adam Tschorn, writing for the Los Angeles Times, described the book as having an uneven, at times choppy, pace and much purple prose, highlighting a passage in which Bowers describes how he milked a cow. Scotty Bowers is a Midwestern World War II vet who, after the war, settled in Los Angeles and took a job at a gas station on Hollywood Boulevard.