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'Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood' spills the tea on sexuality and movie stars
(acknowledgement: Bob Eisenhardt, the film's Editor is a personal friend...)
'Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood' spills the tea on sexuality and movie stars, like it or not
Though Hollywood is now seen (sometimes unfavorably) as a liberal bastion, it wasn’t always that way. For lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, life in Hollywood up until the early 1990s — and perhaps, in some ways, still today — was a game of smoke and mirrors, hiding parts of themselves in public for fear of losing their jobs, being harassed by the police or worse. It’s a time period that Scotty Bowers remembers quite vividly.
“I never did think it was a good thing,” the 95-year-old said about people being forced to hide their sexuality. “But people had to do it. It was dangerous not to.”
That’s where Bowers came in — serving as a pimp for young men and women and catering to the sexual desires of some of the industry’s biggest names. He publicly shared and confirmed many of his then-rumored exploits in “Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars,” his 2012 memoir, which became a New York Times bestseller. Six years later, his story gets the big screen treatment with Matt Tyrnauer’s feature-length doc, “Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood,” now playing in limited release.
From the 1940s to the 1980s, Bowers ran a brothel of sorts out of a gas station in the shadow of industry studios on Hollywood Boulevard. He says he’d set up himself and others with some of Hollywood’s biggest players whom he says were in the closet — towering icons from the Golden Age including Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Lana Turner and Ava Gardner.
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-scotty-bowers-matt-tyrnauer-secret-history-20180728-story.html
Though Hollywood is now seen (sometimes unfavorably) as a liberal bastion, it wasn’t always that way. For lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, life in Hollywood up until the early 1990s — and perhaps, in some ways, still today — was a game of smoke and mirrors, hiding parts of themselves in public for fear of losing their jobs, being harassed by the police or worse. It’s a time period that Scotty Bowers remembers quite vividly.
“I never did think it was a good thing,” the 95-year-old said about people being forced to hide their sexuality. “But people had to do it. It was dangerous not to.”
That’s where Bowers came in — serving as a pimp for young men and women and catering to the sexual desires of some of the industry’s biggest names. He publicly shared and confirmed many of his then-rumored exploits in “Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars,” his 2012 memoir, which became a New York Times bestseller. Six years later, his story gets the big screen treatment with Matt Tyrnauer’s feature-length doc, “Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood,” now playing in limited release.
From the 1940s to the 1980s, Bowers ran a brothel of sorts out of a gas station in the shadow of industry studios on Hollywood Boulevard. He says he’d set up himself and others with some of Hollywood’s biggest players whom he says were in the closet — towering icons from the Golden Age including Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Lana Turner and Ava Gardner.
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-scotty-bowers-matt-tyrnauer-secret-history-20180728-story.html
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