April 5th has quite the Celebrity Birthday Roll Call: Spencer Tracy, Melvyn Douglas, Bette Davis, Gregory Peck, one a Gay Icon, none of them gay… except for that pesky Spencer Tracy rumor that has been going around.
In mid-March, my MAX train book was such a salacious read that I worried that someone might scan it over my shoulders. I gave up reading when I was on a too crowded train.
Full Service by Scotty Bowers came to mind today as I read the roster of Hollywood stars that were born on this day- April 5th.
Bowers has had a long legitimate career in Hollywood. A farm boy from Illinois, his family driven off the land in the Depression, he grew up in Chicago, fought in the US Marines & after the WW2 got a job at the Richfield Gasoline service station on Hollywood Blvd. Bowers eventually becoming a bartender, caterer, waiter & handyman to the stars.
Bowers worked the night shift at the gas station, & turned the place into a drive-in brothel, with a trailer behind the station, where he introduced the stars to his young friends. He never charged for his services, but did it purely out of joie de vivre. Starting as a boy, Bowers did charge for his services, tricking with Catholic priests & assorted strangers in Chicago.
Bowers: “I was still Hollywood’s go-to guy for setting up tricks. Some folks around town even began calling me ‘Mr Sex’.” For Zsa Zsa Gabor’s 6th husband- Jack Ryan, the designer of the Barbie doll, he found Barbie doll types. Errol Flynn like them very young, but would pass out drunk, leaving Bowers to service his dates. He made dates for Katharine Hepburn “with over 150 different women”.
Bowers seemed to have an irresistible penis to anyone. Bowers: “As a bartender, I would often whip it out & stir drinks with it. Folks loved that.” & among the folks, nearly all men, who loved a trip on Bower’s cock: Spencer Tracy, Walter Pidgeon, George Cukor, Cole Porter, Anthony Perkins, Vincent Price, Cecil Beaton, Charles Laughton, Tyrone Power, Somerset Maugham, Raymond Burr, Tennessee Williams, Brian Epstein, Noël Coward, & 3 ways with Cary Grant & Randolph Scott. Bing Crosby appears to be the only male star to not give Bowers a blow job.
I am not a particular fan of the work of Spencer Tracy,but certainly not a detractor. In Full Service, Bowers tells of multiple sexual encounters with the masculine star, all with Tracy being very drunk.
Melvyn Douglas, not mentioned in Full Service was a straight, stylish & suave leading man of the Golden Era, working from 1932-1981. He played opposite Greta Garbo 3 times: As You Desire Me (1932), Ninotchka (1939) & Garbo's final film Two Faced Woman (1941).
Douglas won a Tony Award in the 1960 for still timelyThe Best Man by Gore Vidal, & an Emmy for Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night (1967). As Douglas grew older, he continued to work in elegant elder roles, including: The Americanization of Emily (1964), Hud (1963), for which he won his first Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, (1966), The Candidate (1972) & the heartbreaking I Never Sang for My Father (1970), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor. He won his second Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for one of my favorite films- Being There (1979).
I have never have viewed a bad Gregory Peck performance, indeed I have loved every film I have seen with this most perfect of leading men. One of the most popular film stars from the 1940s -1980s & one of the best dressed men of all time. My favorite Peck role is, no surprise, Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Actor. Amazing, I missed this film as a child & did not see it until The Husband insisted in 2002.
Peck was a lifelong liberal & supporter of the Democratic party. In 1947, along with Melvin Douglas, Peck was investigated by the House Un-American Activities Committee investigation of alleged communists in the film industry. Peck signed a letter deploring the committee’s actions. President Nixon placed Peck & Douglas on his enemies list due to their liberal activism. Peck is not mentioned in Bower’s book.
Nigel Hawthorne was a sensitive & intelligent actor whose work was never really appreciated until the 1980s when he cast in a popular UK TV series-Yes Minister, a show I could never understand in the slightest. I am familiar with Hawthorne from his stunning Oscar nominated turn in title role of openly gay playwright- Alan Bennett's The Madness of King George III (1994), after starring in the stage version, including a Broadway run only because of Bennett's refusal to abandon him for a name more familiar to Broadway audiences.
He worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1983-84, forgetting & forgiving the fact that he had been unsuccessfully trying to join for years before his TV success. In 1999 he played King Lear with that company.
Hawthorne was knighted in 1999. He shared his life with screenwriter Trevor Bentham. He made no secret of his homosexuality, but he deemed it bad manners to "embarrass" people by talking about it. He appears to never have ever been acquainted with Bower’s mighty cock & neither have I.
In mid-March, my MAX train book was such a salacious read that I worried that someone might scan it over my shoulders. I gave up reading when I was on a too crowded train.
Full Service by Scotty Bowers came to mind today as I read the roster of Hollywood stars that were born on this day- April 5th.
Bowers has had a long legitimate career in Hollywood. A farm boy from Illinois, his family driven off the land in the Depression, he grew up in Chicago, fought in the US Marines & after the WW2 got a job at the Richfield Gasoline service station on Hollywood Blvd. Bowers eventually becoming a bartender, caterer, waiter & handyman to the stars.
Bowers worked the night shift at the gas station, & turned the place into a drive-in brothel, with a trailer behind the station, where he introduced the stars to his young friends. He never charged for his services, but did it purely out of joie de vivre. Starting as a boy, Bowers did charge for his services, tricking with Catholic priests & assorted strangers in Chicago.
Bowers: “I was still Hollywood’s go-to guy for setting up tricks. Some folks around town even began calling me ‘Mr Sex’.” For Zsa Zsa Gabor’s 6th husband- Jack Ryan, the designer of the Barbie doll, he found Barbie doll types. Errol Flynn like them very young, but would pass out drunk, leaving Bowers to service his dates. He made dates for Katharine Hepburn “with over 150 different women”.
Bowers seemed to have an irresistible penis to anyone. Bowers: “As a bartender, I would often whip it out & stir drinks with it. Folks loved that.” & among the folks, nearly all men, who loved a trip on Bower’s cock: Spencer Tracy, Walter Pidgeon, George Cukor, Cole Porter, Anthony Perkins, Vincent Price, Cecil Beaton, Charles Laughton, Tyrone Power, Somerset Maugham, Raymond Burr, Tennessee Williams, Brian Epstein, Noël Coward, & 3 ways with Cary Grant & Randolph Scott. Bing Crosby appears to be the only male star to not give Bowers a blow job.
I am not a particular fan of the work of Spencer Tracy,but certainly not a detractor. In Full Service, Bowers tells of multiple sexual encounters with the masculine star, all with Tracy being very drunk.
Melvyn Douglas, not mentioned in Full Service was a straight, stylish & suave leading man of the Golden Era, working from 1932-1981. He played opposite Greta Garbo 3 times: As You Desire Me (1932), Ninotchka (1939) & Garbo's final film Two Faced Woman (1941).
Douglas won a Tony Award in the 1960 for still timelyThe Best Man by Gore Vidal, & an Emmy for Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night (1967). As Douglas grew older, he continued to work in elegant elder roles, including: The Americanization of Emily (1964), Hud (1963), for which he won his first Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, (1966), The Candidate (1972) & the heartbreaking I Never Sang for My Father (1970), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor. He won his second Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for one of my favorite films- Being There (1979).
I have never have viewed a bad Gregory Peck performance, indeed I have loved every film I have seen with this most perfect of leading men. One of the most popular film stars from the 1940s -1980s & one of the best dressed men of all time. My favorite Peck role is, no surprise, Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Actor. Amazing, I missed this film as a child & did not see it until The Husband insisted in 2002.
Peck was a lifelong liberal & supporter of the Democratic party. In 1947, along with Melvin Douglas, Peck was investigated by the House Un-American Activities Committee investigation of alleged communists in the film industry. Peck signed a letter deploring the committee’s actions. President Nixon placed Peck & Douglas on his enemies list due to their liberal activism. Peck is not mentioned in Bower’s book.
Nigel Hawthorne was a sensitive & intelligent actor whose work was never really appreciated until the 1980s when he cast in a popular UK TV series-Yes Minister, a show I could never understand in the slightest. I am familiar with Hawthorne from his stunning Oscar nominated turn in title role of openly gay playwright- Alan Bennett's The Madness of King George III (1994), after starring in the stage version, including a Broadway run only because of Bennett's refusal to abandon him for a name more familiar to Broadway audiences.
He worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1983-84, forgetting & forgiving the fact that he had been unsuccessfully trying to join for years before his TV success. In 1999 he played King Lear with that company.
Hawthorne was knighted in 1999. He shared his life with screenwriter Trevor Bentham. He made no secret of his homosexuality, but he deemed it bad manners to "embarrass" people by talking about it. He appears to never have ever been acquainted with Bower’s mighty cock & neither have I.
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