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Full Service

My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars
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Feb 07, 2023jcamenga rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
This tawdry tale of the life of sex trickster Scotty Bowers gets old after awhile. He names so many stars—Cary Grant, Vincent Price included—that makes me wonder if he is always telling the truth. After being molested at a young age,…
Oct 19, 2022dannybex rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Okay, while it's understandable that most people would be shocked, scandalized and maybe even feel sickened that Bowers has destroyed the illusion of reality that Hollywood presented to them, it's both kind of funny and sad that people…
Jan 31, 2021The_Most_Casual_Observer rated this title 1.5 out of 5 stars
❌ On looking through the comments, The Observer is surprised that everyone seems to take the stories in this book as true, if reprehensible. I suggest they are about as true as the stories you hear sitting at the bar at the VFW. Many…
Dec 21, 2020Nursebob rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
Having seen the documentary first I was prepared for even more lurid details and the author certainly doesn't skimp. But the sexual confessions are nothing we couldn't have already guessed at (except maybe for Charles Laughton's...eww!)…
Mar 01, 2020Vanessa72 rated this title 0.5 out of 5 stars
Complete trash. Mr. Bowers grew up with no moral compass, he seems to be a strange form of sociopath. He says that he feels sympathy for the persons he met during his career, but it seems throughout his book that he is actually laughing…
Oct 22, 2019amherst19101 rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
I find myself in agreement with many of the points made by the reviewers below. However, I guess I have a somewhat different take. The issue of the propriety of revealing rather private information of famous people, aside--and that is a…
Oct 22, 2019LESeymour rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
Geez, I'd like to say this was informative but the author comes over more as a "please-excuse-my-cheating-I-was-poor" type! Endless references to major stars didn't make up for the sadness I felt with his talking about clueless wives and…
Jun 05, 2019
While reading Scotty Bowers' "Full Service" be sure to ask yourself whether you actually believe that Bowers wrote this scathing "tell-all" tale out of respect for those who he so callously named and exposed in his vicious, little story…
May 16, 2019
Throughout this entire "tell-all" tale the self-satisfied little George "Scotty" Bowers (88 at the time) smirks, and gloats, and winks as he gleefully exposes the secret sex lives of a number of Hollywood's biggest stars of the 40s, 50s,…
Jan 21, 2019redtayres rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
After reading this book you'll feel a little dirty, but you've got to hand it to the author, who coasts through the whole thing with a sunny, untouched demeanor. Acting as unpaid pimp and call-boy to the stars, the author reveals - over…
Dec 19, 2018
I am still shaking my head with this one, but I do believe in reading everything, even if I disagree with it. When Scotty Bowers wrote his book, his attitude was most appalling and even disturbing, as he makes it seem it was acceptable…
Oct 29, 2018SusieQB1 rated this title 0.5 out of 5 stars
Don't waste your time. Trash and tasteless.
Aug 23, 2018Mitzi352 rated this title 0.5 out of 5 stars
Absolute trash. Big deal - numerous sexual exploits by a wide variety of people, over and over and over ad nauseam. Got pretty boring after 90 pages of the same crap. A book has to be awful bad for me not to finish it, but I quit after…
Jul 17, 2017
Now when I watch my TCM movies all the handsome leading guys are homos. The most horrific is "the hunch back of Norte dame" Mr. Laughton ate a sandwich with feces. All wonderful actors but their secret lives behind the certain is…
Mar 22, 2017athena14 rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
I enjoyed his confirmation of Katharine Hepburn's dyke self. Her studio-imposed "romance" with Spencer Tracy always turned my stomach.
Dec 22, 2016SMilzer rated this title 0.5 out of 5 stars
I'm surprised to find this on the shelves of a public library. Trashy and ill-written, very little of it is credible (thank god). Mr. Bowers describes with lurid delight intimate details of childhood molestations, but he only dimly…
May 16, 2014JBish661 rated this title 1 out of 5 stars
Interesting topic of a whitewashed part of Hollywood history and homosexuality in the mid-century. Too bad it's so poorly written. It's basically one gossip bit after another but not written very clearly or in an interesting manner. I wish…
mrmervis
Nov 24, 2013mrmervis rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
A gossipy journey through Hollywood, a little hard to believe at times.
Oct 09, 2013
What is arrogant about this title is that Scottie Bowers is not self- conscious about writing this book . This is a highly entertaining title, but at the same time that is something incorrect and disturbing about it. One realizes that…
mklgeorge
Mar 27, 2013
I can't believe I wasted my time on a borderline porn book. Find it hard to believe all that he claims as far as not being paid, to believing he did no wrong. His memory conveniently lapsed on too many characters, places, time frame. I…
Jul 30, 2012Buddy_Garriott60 rated this title 1.5 out of 5 stars
I thought the book for the most part was somewhat entertaining but I find it hard to believe that he actually met all those people and did as much as he professes to have done. I find the book to lean more towards being hyped trash than…
Jul 22, 2012spartan11 rated this title 1 out of 5 stars
I'm sorry I wasted my time reading this trash.
Jun 12, 2012Basileus rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
Not very well written, and the chronology tends to jump all over the place, but a fairly interesting expose on the lurid side of the Golden Age of Hollywood. If you are into celebrity gossip, this book reads like one big long blind item…
fairboy
Feb 08, 2012fairboy rated this title 0.5 out of 5 stars
Reads like one of those Blood Moon Darwin Porter tell alls. I wonder how he missed out on telling this tale.