NEW PERSPECTIVES

A Hollywood Icon Turned Tricks a Few Blocks from My Hollywood Home

Scotty Bowers’ book blew open my sheltered little mind

Joe Guay - Dispatches From the Guay Life!
Prism & Pen
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9 min readJul 20, 2024

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Two young men look at one another and flirt amidst a sea of circular lights, perhaps headlights

“Hey Mack, remember those parties at my place in the ‘70s? Scotty was the best bartender, right?”

My ears perk up. Wait, they couldn’t be speaking of THE Scotty, could they?

I turned to Mack and his pal. “You don’t mean Scotty Bowers, do you?”

“Yeah, of course,” the guy proclaimed. “My god, what a sex drive that guy had. He had to be in his late 50s. He’d bartend our party, do his usual routine and stir some drinks with his dick (eww?), go make love to the woman across the street and then maybe go home with one of the guys from our party. He was just the best. Ahhh, the 70s.”

Except it wasn’t just the ‘70s — this had been going on with this guy Bowers since the 1940s, hell, even during the Depression years — turning tricks, making sexual fantasies come true and rubbing elbows (and a lot more) with A-list movie stars, crew members and studio heads.

Have you read it?

If you’re into old-time Hollywood, you may not be able to put it down.

Full Service by Scotty Bowers and Lionel Friedberg arrived on the scene in 2012…

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Joe Guay - Dispatches From the Guay Life!
Prism & Pen

Joe Guay, a recovering people-pleaser, is an essayist, actor/voiceover guy with musings on mental health, LGBTQ, humor and travel & nature as church