Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars

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This book was for me, first and foremost, a tale of a male who was overly sexual his entire life due to abuse in his childhood and yet still felt like the luckiest man alive to have shared intimacy (not love though) with hundreds if not thousands of partners. He says he went on to sire other children with other women, some deliberately, others not; he says he never accepted payment for offering up his end of conception for these infertile couples, and then talks about how he longs to know how those kids' lives turned out. In 1950 he stopped working at the service station and began a legitimate business as a party bartender. He tries to up the ante by moving onto exceptionally lurid and very graphic scatalogical stuff involving Charles Laughton and Tyrone Power, but the effect isn't titillation, which is clearly what he's angling for; rather, it's disgust.

I recommend the memoir with few reservations — especially if you are looking for a light read about a man whose free relationship with sexuality helped others live their lives to the fullest, outside of the limelight. 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. In that future age it will be easier to see that movie stars and celebrities were and are in the business of mystifying fact and generating stories about themselves.The Guardian (UK) "After five years maintaining that sex secrets of Tinseltown's elite, at the age of 88, Bowers is revealing all in a sensational new memoir.

There's only one test case that still stirs up controversy, and it concerns the legend of Kate and Spence. The pacing of the book is a bit uneven in places, choppy in others, and full of purple prose throughout (it's unclear, for example, why an account of his childhood on the farm needed to include a sentence like: "As my fingers tugged on the cow's soft teats, her warm milk squirted into the pail.This book was written by a man who loved sex and glamour and had no guilt for living his life his way. Gradually, Scotty began hooking up Hollywood's rich and famous, among many others, with his fellow Marines who hung around the gas station anyway looking for ways to earn quick money. He also claims to have provided women—mostly prostitutes—to Alfred Kinsey as interview subjects for his famous study on human sexuality.

I mean pennies literally because he remarked that it was a high point if he got as much as a dollar. The theme of the whole thing is, “well, that’s sex for ya…intense, a bit sad, but, y’gotta admit, it’s a real hoot! The documentary is still crass, of course, but maybe spending less time soaking in the filth makes it easier to wash off afterwards. Scotty provided them with a house and an education for his daughter, and feels that “if the romance went out of our relationship, well, that just happens with people sometimes.Like so many young men of the time, the experience gave Scotty the realization that life is too short and cruel not to spend it in the pursuit of pleasure, both giving and receiving. and for whom the well-endowed Bowers performed his 'swizzle-stick trick' when he bartended private sex parties (at which, both he and no doubt his legal team are intent upon reminding you every fourth paragraph, he never ever EVER received any compensation. I enjoyed it despite sections that made me sad for the boy he was and parts that made me side-eye what was written as truth but may not be. He is careful to delineate the three times he fell in love, and how they were *different* than what he felt the thousands of times he was happily with other people.

But what surprised me, and really seemed to set up Scotty's attitude for the rest of his life, was noting how that grief and loss made him embrace life and do so without judgment or reservation. Viele Promis - nein alle Promis, die im Buch vorkommen sind schon Tod und können zu den Angaben nichts mehr sagen.And he was this young, handsome, sweet, strong, sex addicted, bisexual Marine working at a gas station in the middle of Hollywood post WWll. It seems that, overall, he made sure to surround himself with those whose laissez-faire approach mirrored his own. 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.