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Povestea adevarata in spatele inelului de sex al benzinariei din Hollywood-ul lui Ryan Murphy

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Hollywood-ul, fantezia naprasnica a lui Ryan Murphy din anii ’40 Tinseltown, este o reimaginare a istoriei filmului, care prezinta atat lumini reale, cat si luminoase fictive pe ecran. Si, in conformitate cu multi dintre criticii care l-au revizuit pana acum, se apleaca mult mai mult spre fictiune, probabil ca inveleste istoria in mod problematic.

Inelul de sex al benzinariei condus de proxeneta debonair Ernie (Dylan McDermott), insa, nu este un produs al imaginatiei de la Hollywood. De fapt, este bazata pe versiunea completa – sau cel putin, o versiune a acestui om de la Hollywood de multa vreme. Ernie se bazeaza partial pe Scotty Bowers, autorul memoriului Full Service si subiect al documentarului 2018 Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood. Bowers, care a murit in 2019, la varsta de 96 de ani, a afirmat in cartea sa ca a condus in secret un inel de escorta pentru glitterati, procurand parteneri sexuali pentru toti, de la Rock Hudson (care este portretizat de Jake Picking la Hollywood) pana la Katharine Hepburn la Cary Acorda.

Cine a fost Scotty Bowers?

Un fost GI al celui de-al Doilea Razboi Mondial dintr-un oras mic din Illinois, Bowers s-a inscris in puscasii marini si a luptat in Teatrul Pacific de la Iwo Jima inainte de a se muta la Los Angeles. Potrivit cartii sale, a intrat pentru prima data in industria sexului, in timp ce lucra la statia Richfield, la 5777 Hollywood Blvd. (acum, se pare, o statie de pompieri), unde vedeta Planetei Interzise Walter Pidgeon l-a ridicat si i-a platit 20 de dolari pentru sex. De acolo, a sustinut Bowers, a trecut de la vanzarea sexului la aranjarea legaturilor pentru astfel de vedete precum Katherine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy si Vivien Leigh, infiintand un pat queen intr-o remorca la benzinarie pentru astfel de atributii. De asemenea, el a sustinut ca s-a culcat cu Cary Grant si fostul director al FBI J. Edgar Hoover si ca a avut un triplu cu Ava Gardner si Lana Turner (la casa lui Frank Sinatra, nu mai putin).

Serviciul complet este explicit, agresiv si vesel. Despre Spencer Tracy, Bowers scrie ca „m-a apucat de penisul meu si a inceput sa-mi zvacneasca preputul”; a lui Cole Porter, care face o scurta aparitie a cameo- ului la Hollywood, Bowers scrie: „El ar putea sa suga usor douazeci de tipi, unul dupa altul. Si el a inghitit mereu ”. Spre deosebire de personajul lui McDermott de la Hollywood, Bowers nu s-a identificat exact ca proxenet, sustinand in cadrul serviciului complet ca nu a acceptat niciodata bani pentru aranjarea acestor intalniri, pur si simplu actionand ca un „procuror” al stelelor gratuit.

In the 1950s, after he left the gas station, he apparently became well-known among certain circles for serving this role; he was also apparently renowned for his discretion, keeping his clients’ phone numbers in his head so he could never be busted with them. And he was successful in this regard, so much so that a 2006 Variety profile on Bowers’ later life as a Hollywood bartender only vaguely alluded to the “scandalous information” he had on old-time Hollywood. It wasn’t until his memoir was published in 2012 that the world learned of his secrets.

Scotty Bowers on August 4th 2018 at the<br />‘Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood’ film screening, after party, in New York City.

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How legit are the claims in Full Service?

At the time Bowers’ book was published, most of the subjects in his memoir were dead, so very few had the opportunity to refute or confirm any of the claims set forth in his book. But there are enough people on the record who were around back then to support his version of events — most notably, author Gore Vidal, a close friend of Bowers who supplied a cover blurb for his book — to suggest that his allegations contained at least a grain of truth.

Other Hollywood journalists and filmmakers have also stated that they’d approached Bowers in the past for him to tell his story, only for him to turn them down flat. “I don’t need the money,” he told the New York Times when it was published. “I finally said yes because I’m not getting any younger and all of my famous tricks are dead by now. The truth can’t hurt them anymore.”

Parts of Bowers’ account do strain credulity, particularly the sheer number of famous people he claims to have slept with, as well as the fact that he sometimes comes across as inflating his own significance by placing himself at various historical events (one Los Angeles Times reviewer referred to him as “Forrest Hump”).

But the truth is that, assuming at least some of his allegations are true, Bowers would have had good reason to stay quiet as long as he did (aside from facing prospective legal action, of course).

As Bowers explains in his book, 1940s and 1950s movie studios were conservative even by the standards of the time, forcing actors and directors to sign “morals” clauses in their contracts which, among other things, required them to adopt the auspices of heterosexuality, even if they were gay or bisexual in their private lives. Hollywood celebrities like Rock Hudson — who lived as a gay man for decades, but never publicly came out before his death of AIDS in the 1980s — would have relied heavily on Bowers’ discretion to live freely, without fear of career repercussions.

Aside from the sheer breadth of pure celebrity gossip present in Full Service (as well as the range of allusions to erect or partially erect penises), part of what’s so striking about the book is how cheerfully non-judgmental Bowers is, even though he lived and worked in incredibly regressive times. He stubbornly resists any reader’s attempts to categorize him or his sexuality (he did end up marrying a woman in the 1980s, living with her until his death last year), and he seems to have harbored this live-and-let-live approach till the day he died.

I never saw the fascination,” Bowers said of his famous friends’ sex lives. “So they liked sex how they liked it. Who cares?”

Povestea adevarata in spatele inelului de sex al benzinariei din Hollywood-ul lui Ryan Murphy

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