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Subtitled: My adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars

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. 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...

In his thirty years \'tricking\' and arranging tricks for LA\'s rich and famous, Bowers went to bed with thousands of people and engineered sexual liaisons of all flavours for countless more.

Full Service is the ultimate guilty pleasure, revealing for the first time the shadow lives of the people who created popular culture, told by the man who was so central to fulfilling their desires.

Review

\'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. Scotty doesn\'t lie - the stars sometimes do - and he knows everybody\' - Gore Vidal \'[A] juicy, filthy memoir.\' - Guardian \'Full Service is a scandal fest, oozing salacious gossip in which Bowers... recalls where who did what to whom and how.\' - Sunday Telegraph \'This handsome ex-Marine and his friendly gas station have long been alluded to in Hollywood memoirs. And now, at last, they go public.\' - The New York Times \'Scotty Bowers is the most honest person I\'ve known, with the best memory for names and places I\'ve ever seen. If he tells you that something happened to somebody, that\'s the way it was.\' - Bob Benevides - one of the subjects of Full Service, L.A. Weekly

Review

“A jaw-dropping firsthand account of closeted life in Hollywood during the ’40s and ’50s. The wholesome image of the postwar 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

“Full Service at the very least highlights how sharply the rules of engagement for reporting celebrity gossip have changed. . . . [It’s] much harder to keep details as salacious as the ones Mr. Bowers outlines under wraps.”—Brooks Barnes, The New York Times

“[Scotty Bowers] made his reputation by sleeping with everyone in Hollywood who wasn’t actually Lassie, and now he tells all. If you ever suspected that Spencer Tracy was bisexual and Tyrone Power a coprophiliac, and if you happen to believe everything you read, here is all the testimony you require.”—Anthony Lane, The New Yorker

“[Q]uel scandale!”—Vanity Fair

“Connoisseurs of lurid tell-alls and the golden age of Hollywood will almost certainly be entranced by Full Service.”—The Atlantic Wire

“This handsome ex-Marine and his friendly gas station have long been alluded to in Hollywood memoirs. And now, at last, they go public.”—Janet Maslin, The New York Times

“The book is like a 286-page gossip column from Hollywood’s golden age—it names all the names and spills all the secrets. Bowers was a . . . free-love advocate far ahead of his time who claimed Cary Grant, Spencer Tracy, Edith Piaf and the Duke of Windsor (to mention just a few) as lovers.”—W Magazine, “February’s Most Wanted

“Younger readers—at least those raised in the Internet and TMZ age—may find nearly as shocking the fact that the stories were squelched by studio publicists and remained largely under wraps back in the day.”—Chicago Tribune

\"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. After a lifetime in Hollywood, that’s a remarkable feat and its own kind of Zen.”—David Patrick Columbia, New York Social Diary

“A picaresque romp that unabashedly uncovers long-hidden sexual scandals during Hollywood’s golden years.”—John Rechy, author of City of Night

\"Full Service is not a kiss-and-tell or a diary of a rent boy but an insightful look through the microscope at the world of make believe.\"—Sydney Morning Herald

“Controversial . . . vivid . . . As well as a titillating catalogue of sexual intrigue, the book is designed to expose of the hypocrisy and fear that swirled beneath the industry\'s on-screen glamour and crafted wholesomeness.”—The Guardian (UK)

They said he’d never talk—but at long last, the legendary Scotty Bowers has told his story, with all the honesty, compassion and insight that made him a confidant of movie stars, directors, billionaires, and politicians.”—William J. Mann, author of Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburn

“The initial impulse, of course, is to compare Bowers’ allegations about his career with that of Heidi Fleiss, the Hollywood Madam, and though they both pandered to the prurient interests of the entertainment industry, Bowers’ fantastical story goes further. . . . [If] you’re looking for an unvarnished account of the closeted shenanigans of Hollywood’s Golden Age—and a good trashy read at the same time—then Full Service is the full enchilada.”—Los Angeles Times

“In this shocking exposé, Bowers finally reveals his sexual liaisons with the rich and famous, sparing no details along the way. . . . Bowers has no regrets—having led a life of pleasure, satisfaction and joy that the rest of us can only envy.”—The New York Post

“[Full Service] reads more like a historical document, the Kinsey report on the sex lives of the rich and famous. . . . there’s also a sad irony in [Bowers’s] story. Many of the actors mentioned in his book established the basis for what was for decades considered normal: cookie-cutter, heterosexual marriage. As a reader, it makes you cringe—if all these celebrities hadn’t pretended to be something they were not, would generations of gay teenagers have struggled as much with their identities? Would we even be debating gay marriage today?”—The Daily Beast

“Juicy . . . a titillating tell-all from Scotty Bowers, a gadabout go-between in the closeted and scandal-wary world of moviedom. . . . chatty, affable . . . never less than entertaining. . . . the book paints a picture of a different kind of Hollywood, where the press only went so far in reporting scandals, where great efforts were taken to conceal an actor or actress’ true proclivities, where there was no TMZ and no celebrity porn videos and where there was a lot more to lose if the real story ever got out.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer

“Scotty Bowers was Hollywood’s Mr. Fixit—at least when it came to the bedroom.”—Entertainment Weekly

“[Bowers] has become a mythic figure in Hollywood’s gay subculture. . . . Bowers documents his encounters with great specificity—including Walter Pidgeon’s proclivities—and takes the reader inside some of the most fascinating “scenes” of the period.”—The Daily Variety

“After five decades maintaining that sex secrets of Tinseltown’s elite, at the age of 88, Bowers is revealing all in a sensational new memoir.\"—The Daily Express (UK)

“Full Service opens the doors of the closeted, X-rated underworld of old Hollywood through three decades.”—The Daily Mail (UK)

“[Bowers] became the Mr. Fixit for screen icons who sought out the more lurid trappings of Tinseltown during its glory days. Wild affairs, gay romps and rampant prostitution were the order of the day and Bowers was the man they turned to for their salacious entertainment.”—The Daily Mirror (UK)

“[If] you\'re one of those people who still owns a vintage princess phone, watches Mad Men obsessively, and yearns to go back to a “simpler” time when men and women exchanged witty banter in mid-Atlantic accents instead of jumping into the sack, read Bowers’ book.”—Nerve.com

“[Full Service] is about to blow the door off of the Hollywood Closet. . . . Escandalo!”—Seattle Gay Scene

“None of us are ready for what appears to be the kickass Old Hollywood memoir of 2012: Scotty Bowers’s Full Service.”—AfterElton.com

Idioma Inglés
Publicación 2012
Editorial Grove Press
Categoría Biografías y Memorias


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