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Scotty Bowers: His Little Black Book and His (Gay) Tell-All of Old Hollywood
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Aloysius J. Gleek on February 16, 2012, 03:53:46 pm ---And all I was thinking was:
Gee! He was cute!!
:laugh: :laugh:
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Yes, he was. :)
I wonder whether he was mixed up with Henry Willson? I guess I'll have to read his book to find out! :laugh:
Luvlylittlewing:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on February 16, 2012, 10:46:22 pm ---Yes, he was. :)
I wonder whether he was mixed up with Henry Willson? I guess I'll have to read his book to find out! :laugh:
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I think I'll read the book. I've always been fascinated with Old Hollywood.
milomorris:
--- Quote from: Katie77 on February 16, 2012, 06:54:38 pm ---It's all pretty sad that someone writes a book like this, because it is tacky and creates sensationalism of people who happened to be homosexual or bisexual in times when it was in some places illegal, and in most places socially unacceptable....but none the less, those people still had the same emotions and feelings as gay people today.
If a celebrity "comes out" today, people say how great it is, and often say "so what"... and applaud them for being brave enough to stand up for who they are.
Unfortunately, back in the 40's and 50's this wasn't the case, and those people had to keep their secret and live with that secret for fear of being ostrasized.
Bringing them "out" now in a book is an insult to the courage they had back then. Why cant we just say,as we do today.....nobody's business but theirs.......
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I'm with you, Katie. I don't see how it benefits anybody to air the secrets of anyone, past or present. So Hepburn kissed a girl and she liked it. That is HER story to tell, not Bower's. I think that any "tell all" book is little more than rumor-mongering. It is indiscreet, disrespectful, untrustworthy, prurient, down-right dirty...and I don't think I need to mention, un-manly.
I hope the survivors of his subjects sue to have this book yanked, and seize whatever money has already been made from the sale of it. Bower should be ashamed of himself for betraying the confidences of those who trusted him. But I guess that is too much to expect from a pimp.
Jeff Wrangler:
I hear what you guys are saying, Milo and Katie, and I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you. For me, however, I have to admit that I'm also hearing a little inner voice reminding me that the Old Hollywood image-publicity machine was so full of fakery and bullshit--the real/fake marriage of Rock Hudson to his agent's secretary (and his agent was the notorious Henry Willson), for example--that I'm not terribly troubled by something that redresses the imbalance and tells the public what it really was like, however sleazy the reality may have been--and that's assuming, of course, that Scotty Bowers' tales are true.
I don't expect that I will actually buy this book, but that's mainly because I seem to have so little time to read any more. I know that's not a particularly principled stand on my part, but it's the reality of my life. I have higher priorities for my reading time than a prurient Hollywood tell-all. :-\
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