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Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars
Written by Scotty Bowers and Lionel Friedberg
Narrated by Johnny Heller
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
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About this audiobook
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, NoEl 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.
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.
Editor's Note
On the screen…
This memoir is the basis for the new documentary “Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood.” It dishes eye-opening stories of Hollywood’s sexual underground during its heyday — and exposes the hypocrisy of the studio system.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This is a non-pornographic romp through the sexual exploits of the people of Hollywood through the eyes of a man who claims to have set up tricks for the well known of the time, mid-40's through the '70's. Not to mention his own romps with the stars of the time. It is fun and if half of what this guy said he did is true, he has lived one heck of a life!It is a fun read!
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5So 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 than I expected, and I didn't expect much.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Some of this story was interesting, some unbelievable and a lot just totally wrong and sick! For the author to totally dismiss sexual abuse of a child is deplorable!