- Gebundene Ausgabe: 288 Seiten
- Verlag: Grove/Atlantic Inc (14. Februar 2012)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0802120075
- ISBN-13: 978-0802120076
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 22,9 x 15,7 x 3 cm
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Nothing left out and Plenty of Surprises
20. Januar 2012
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Somehow I was surprised that this was so well-written. Scotty Bowers seems like a nice, charming guy with boundless energy, curiosity and a great appetite for life who seems to have never had the slightest hang-up about sex. Of course having killer good looks and body didn't hurt. An interesting subtext about how witnessing real horror at Guadalcanal and Iwo Jima increased his need to live fully.
The book is overflowing with juicy, bizarre, often very surprising gossip which can be hilariously funny, sometimes sad, and frequently over-the-top salacious. All of the in-your-face sexuality and pathos is interesting because it involves people who were so idealized at the time - and some still are. Plenty of rumors are confirmed and legends shattered. This goes well beyond "Hollywood Babylon" in explicitness and naming names. A real page-turner. Definitely not a re-hash of tired, familiar stories or questionable speculation; Scotty knew and saw them all up close and decided his fascinating tale was worth sharing, now that most of the denizens of old Hollywood are gone. The book's tone is never mean-spirited.
Gore Vidal calls the book startling and vouches for Scotty's veracity.
For those with delicate sensibilities: approach with caution. Some readers will be offended by "distasteful" and unflattering details about favorite celebrities, but if you're going to tell this kind of story nowadays, you might as well go ALL the way, and Scotty does!
There is an interesting article about Bowers and this book in the Sunday, Jan. 29th New York Times. A Vanity Fair writer and award-winning documentary film-maker has signed a deal to make a documentary about Scotty.
As one reviewer said, you'll never look at Turner Classic Movies quite the same.
(By the way, I don't know or have any connection at all with Scotty Bowers or the publisher.)
Recommended.
The book is overflowing with juicy, bizarre, often very surprising gossip which can be hilariously funny, sometimes sad, and frequently over-the-top salacious. All of the in-your-face sexuality and pathos is interesting because it involves people who were so idealized at the time - and some still are. Plenty of rumors are confirmed and legends shattered. This goes well beyond "Hollywood Babylon" in explicitness and naming names. A real page-turner. Definitely not a re-hash of tired, familiar stories or questionable speculation; Scotty knew and saw them all up close and decided his fascinating tale was worth sharing, now that most of the denizens of old Hollywood are gone. The book's tone is never mean-spirited.
Gore Vidal calls the book startling and vouches for Scotty's veracity.
For those with delicate sensibilities: approach with caution. Some readers will be offended by "distasteful" and unflattering details about favorite celebrities, but if you're going to tell this kind of story nowadays, you might as well go ALL the way, and Scotty does!
There is an interesting article about Bowers and this book in the Sunday, Jan. 29th New York Times. A Vanity Fair writer and award-winning documentary film-maker has signed a deal to make a documentary about Scotty.
As one reviewer said, you'll never look at Turner Classic Movies quite the same.
(By the way, I don't know or have any connection at all with Scotty Bowers or the publisher.)
Recommended.
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The Oldest Man Alive
13. Februar 2012
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I wouldn't give this one five stars, because it was pretty "badly written," but we live in an age of contingency and I don't really care about what's good or bad in that sense. Obviously the autobiography of Scotty Bowers, or any 88 year old, is going to be uphill sledding, but I come away from it liking the man and envying him his exciting life at the top of the heap, procuring for and tricking the stars (nd not only the stars but people like J Edgar Hoover and the Windsors).
Once or twice I started to doubt the accuracy of his memories. Not the Spencer Tracy story, the one has so many of my fellow reviewers hollering, but just little things. For example, Scotty attests that he procured young girls for Katharine Hepburn, the Duchess of Windsor, and Phyllis Gates, once the wife of Rock Hudson. Is it a coincidence that, as he remembers them, all three preferred "slim, small, dark-haired trim-figured girls?" Or was it just that he couldn't remember and dragged out the same tag any time his "as told to" guy asked him for a preference. On the other hand, I was impressed that the first star we hear of him having sex with was not someone super famous or legendary like James Dean, but instead the sort of forgotten Walter Pidgeon. Come on, if you were asking the whole thing up, wouldn't you start chapter one with somebody people remember, instead of gentlemanly, intellectual-ish, "Pidge"? It had the ring of truth to me, just because Pidgeon's fame is so nondescript.
I was also impressed that unlike every other star autobiography, Scotty didn't claim to have had sex with Marilyn Monroe. I have new respect for Desi Arnaz as well, a man so generous that he gave his girls $200 or $300 a throw when the standard price was twenty bucks. Sad, sad, sad, was the story of Scotty and Betty's precious daughter Donna. I just didn't see it coming! I had no idea how bad Katharine Hepburn's complexion was; at any rate Bowers describes it here as a cross between old burlap and brand new steel wool. She always looks so good in the movies! Oh, and I wish I was a fly on the wall of the closet into which Scotty sneaked in order to watch Bob Hope have sex with the super glamorous starlet slash tart Barbara Payton! I never thought of Bob Hope as sexy before, but Scotty saw the man in action and it wasn't just a ski nose on Hope! I don't suppose he ever got any sleep, but Scotty Bowers remembers a lot of risque 30s slang, some of which was totally new to me, the acronyms "BLC" and "PTM," and also his peculiar use of the verb "to trick." My own sex life hsn't been as long as Scotty's, but I never heard of "trick" as a transitive verb, "We both tricked Spencer Tracy," rather than as I would say, "We both tricked with" well, name your own more modernday closeted star.
Once or twice I started to doubt the accuracy of his memories. Not the Spencer Tracy story, the one has so many of my fellow reviewers hollering, but just little things. For example, Scotty attests that he procured young girls for Katharine Hepburn, the Duchess of Windsor, and Phyllis Gates, once the wife of Rock Hudson. Is it a coincidence that, as he remembers them, all three preferred "slim, small, dark-haired trim-figured girls?" Or was it just that he couldn't remember and dragged out the same tag any time his "as told to" guy asked him for a preference. On the other hand, I was impressed that the first star we hear of him having sex with was not someone super famous or legendary like James Dean, but instead the sort of forgotten Walter Pidgeon. Come on, if you were asking the whole thing up, wouldn't you start chapter one with somebody people remember, instead of gentlemanly, intellectual-ish, "Pidge"? It had the ring of truth to me, just because Pidgeon's fame is so nondescript.
I was also impressed that unlike every other star autobiography, Scotty didn't claim to have had sex with Marilyn Monroe. I have new respect for Desi Arnaz as well, a man so generous that he gave his girls $200 or $300 a throw when the standard price was twenty bucks. Sad, sad, sad, was the story of Scotty and Betty's precious daughter Donna. I just didn't see it coming! I had no idea how bad Katharine Hepburn's complexion was; at any rate Bowers describes it here as a cross between old burlap and brand new steel wool. She always looks so good in the movies! Oh, and I wish I was a fly on the wall of the closet into which Scotty sneaked in order to watch Bob Hope have sex with the super glamorous starlet slash tart Barbara Payton! I never thought of Bob Hope as sexy before, but Scotty saw the man in action and it wasn't just a ski nose on Hope! I don't suppose he ever got any sleep, but Scotty Bowers remembers a lot of risque 30s slang, some of which was totally new to me, the acronyms "BLC" and "PTM," and also his peculiar use of the verb "to trick." My own sex life hsn't been as long as Scotty's, but I never heard of "trick" as a transitive verb, "We both tricked Spencer Tracy," rather than as I would say, "We both tricked with" well, name your own more modernday closeted star.
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2012 Fiction Award
22. März 2012
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
I am editing my review after finishing this awful book. I tried to give it no stars but the system wouldn't let me. By the middle of the book when Scotty says "so and so (insert anyone's name who was famous) my very good friend, your mind just begins to say "of course he or she was", and when he finishes that story with "I s****d him off" or "I had hot, passionate sex with her all night long" your mind says "of course you did". What a terribly embarrassing book about a sad little, small minded man who really only worked for all of these people as a bartender, handy man, or rent boy. I can't for the life of me figure out why Scotty Bowers would want people to know about his sad, little life. The true tragedies of this story are his common law wife Betty and his daughter Donna who were obviously so ill treated by him. He should be ashamed to even talk about his life much less try to make a buck.
Oh, Scotty, oh, Scotty, ooooooooh!!! Wow, if Scotty Bowers had started his fiction writing career a bit sooner he might have had a lot more financial success than he apparently did pimping, whoring and bartending. He thought Tennessee Williams' version made him sound like an old queen? He makes himself sound like that and much worse. This book is a very lightweight porn read. I've worked with the elderly and there's no way his memory for recall is as good as he claims. Also, like most other reviewers, I was appalled that he doesn't realize to this day how terribly abused he was as a child. Sorry I wasted my money but I might be able to get 50 cents for the book at the used book store. Next book Scotty, check the names that intimates use with their loved ones, calling the Duke of Windsor "Eddie" was an amazing gaffe.
Oh, Scotty, oh, Scotty, ooooooooh!!! Wow, if Scotty Bowers had started his fiction writing career a bit sooner he might have had a lot more financial success than he apparently did pimping, whoring and bartending. He thought Tennessee Williams' version made him sound like an old queen? He makes himself sound like that and much worse. This book is a very lightweight porn read. I've worked with the elderly and there's no way his memory for recall is as good as he claims. Also, like most other reviewers, I was appalled that he doesn't realize to this day how terribly abused he was as a child. Sorry I wasted my money but I might be able to get 50 cents for the book at the used book store. Next book Scotty, check the names that intimates use with their loved ones, calling the Duke of Windsor "Eddie" was an amazing gaffe.
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