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This piece originally ran during the Toronto Film Festival.
Scottys smile is huge, and so is the cock.
Were there three-ways with Cary Grant and Randolph Scott?
Did Bowers have hotel assignations with the Duke and Duchess of Windsor?
That was on the menu, too.
In the space of just two minutes, I jotted down four of those Bowers bon mots.
Context is wholly unnecessary.
I wanna suck 15 guys off, one after the other!
I fucked Bette Davis in World War II.
I went to bed with J. Edgar Hoover.
He was in drag.
Not a great beauty, either.
Cary Grant just happened to be there.
So I fixed him up with Rock Hudson for 20 bucks.
Now theyve lived into a period of tremendous openness, by comparison, and its interesting to see.
Not that Bowers, who is married, would necessarily describe himself as homosexual.
Ladies have said to me, Just what are you?
I said, Im everything.
I didnt find Scottys book to be offensive, in that it outed people, said the director.
I think he was making a larger point about Hollywood and the hypocrisy of the period.
Thats in the past.
I think weve kind of moved past the outing debate in our culture, he told me.
It seems like its so 90s.
Were lucky in the U.S. that weve reach a point of openness, certainly since I was a kid.
Its just a different world and people mostly dont feel like they have to hide their sexuality.
In American culture, old people become invisible and I think thats very sad, said Tyrnauer.
It would serve them very well to.
When Scotty Bowers is talking, who wouldnt listen?
