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Gossip | Outrageous scandals and typhoons in a teacup

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Sex fixer to the stars in Hollywood's golden age

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"I know your reputation, Scotty. When you get a chance, do you think you can find a nice, young dark-haired girl for me? Someone that's not too heavily made-up," he remembers her saying.

Hepburn and Bowers were friends for the next 50 years, and he now claims he fixed her up with more than 150 women, including one she saw on and off for 49 years.

Bowers says that back in the day the going rate was $20 for sex and he took the money for his own services, but not for fixing up anyone else. "I wasn't a pimp," he insists.

But in post-war LA, after a chance encounter with a "closeted queen" on the prowl at the gas station where he worked on Hollywood Boulevard, Bowers claims he gradually became the go-to fix-all for hundreds of movie industry types seeking covert liaisons.

Hanging around with old service pals at the gas station, he describes the first time someone propositioned him, from their shiny Lincoln coupé.

The man at the wheel proffered Bowers the few bucks for the gas, plus a crisp $20 and said: "What are you doing for the rest of the day?"

He was the star of the 1941 hit How Green Was My Valley, Walter Pidgeon, and he whisked Bowers to a house in Beverly Hills the actor shared with his boyfriend.

Bowers swam naked in the pool while both men watched followed by an hour of "really hot sex". Both men had wives living elsewhere and Bowers recalls they begged him to keep their secret.

Bowers remained silent, but Pidgeon apparently spread word of his services on the Hollywood 'down low', where men and women – gay, bisexual, or simply pursuing infidelity in a tightly-buttoned industry – sought adventure in the late 1940s.

Soon they began turning up at the gas station or phoning Bowers there, asking to buy sex. Bowers both obliged himself and began persuading his former marine friends – and their friends and girlfriends – to provide services and make some very welcome money on the side.

His 'business' mushroomed and he describes enjoying the money, but particularly the sex. By 1950 he calculates he was personally turning two or three tricks a day and setting up a further 15 to 20.

He revels in detailing his voracious sexual appetite and fluid sexuality. But although he also describes being serially molested by paedophile family acquaintances and becoming a teenage rent boy while growing up in Illinois, he does not dwell on the episode, nor connect it to his later life.

Meanwhile, back on Hollywood Boulevard, Cole Porter, who was married but had a penchant for marines, sought out Bowers and ordered him and a pack of his friends to his house, Bowers recalls.

One day he gets a call and a voice says: "This is Errol Flynn. That gas station of yours has gained quite a reputation."

Bowers was thrilled. Flynn wanted to be fixed up with women who both behaved and looked as if they were underage, so Bowers escorted a parade of young women to him.

But he mentions, in the book's somewhat self-aggrandising style, that Flynn would get so drunk that despite telling them "I'm going to make love to you like nothing you've ever experienced" he would pass out dead drunk and Bowers would "oblige the lady myself".

Bowers' boasts range from frequent sex with Cary Grant to servicing Beatles manager Brian Epstein and fixing up a threesome for Sir Laurence Olivier, as well as a vivid account of clandestinely sleeping with Olivier's wife, Vivien Leigh. He says he arranged voyeurism sessions for Somerset Maugham, found a string of young men for Noel Coward and had sex with Tennessee Williams.

He dramatically describes the climate of fear in an era when he worked as a bartender at Hollywood parties while the LAPD vice squad were prowling the hills in their patrol cars looking for parties and opportunities to arrest the participants.

But perhaps the book's most shocking passages claims that Britain's disgraced King Edward VIII abdicated the throne and married American divorcee Wallis Simpson because both were gay and "the whole myth of the great royal romance was a fabrication, a giant cover-up".

"Essentially, he was gay and she was a dyke," Bowers writes.

Cecil Beaton (with whom Bowers, inevitably, describes having sex) brought the pair to visit him. Bowers says he discreetly set "Wally" up with a string of women and "often tricked Eddy myself".

Bowers continued doing business his way into the 1960s and beyond. But the outbreak of Aids in the mid-80s finally scared him into complete cessation.

Then, as his famous clients died over the years, he finally decided to tell all, and the resulting tone in his memoir is as nostalgic as it is sensational.

He concludes, almost anti-climactically, that he was simply happy satisfying the needs of the famous and secretive. He never judged and declares now only that he misses those heady days.

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Ménage à trois

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France’s first lady was sleeping with now President Francois Hollande and Patrick Devedjian, a minister in the Sarkozy government at the same time . .


Did I post that Carla (Sarkozy) interview with Figaro saying she loves 3somes and 4somes ? :D

Parisians really something .. seems perpetual f*ck festival :D

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Sorry folks ,

just posting this here to show it ain't what you thinkin .. all Fata Morgana

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Stars Without Makeup - Goldie Hawn steps out sans makeup



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I remember Goldie Hawn from her Laugh-in days and my opinion of her continues to increase.
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Nonc Hilaire wrote:I remember Goldie Hawn from her Laugh-in days and my opinion of her continues to increase.
Had to look up Laugh-In and Goldie Hawn

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Anyways, it's not hard to take of photo of someone not at their best.
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Goldie Hawn is an acomplished woman. She started out as eye candy, and became an astonishing actress, director and producer.

Her obvious lack of plastic surgery only enhances my opinion of her.
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Nonc Hilaire wrote:Goldie Hawn is an acomplished woman. She started out as eye candy, and became an astonishing actress, director and producer.
No argument. Agreed.
Nonc Hilaire wrote:Her obvious lack of plastic surgery only enhances my opinion of her.
Yes. The results of cosmetic surgery are often quite unattractive. Worse than the original natural look.
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Typhoon wrote:
Yes. The results of cosmetic surgery are often quite unattractive. Worse than the original natural look.
Agreed.
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Typhoon wrote:
Nonc Hilaire wrote:I remember Goldie Hawn from her Laugh-in days and my opinion of her continues to increase.
Had to look up Laugh-In and Goldie Hawn
I can remember faking being ill on Monday nights so I would not have to go to religious instruction and could watch Laugh-In.

Hopefully, I won't end up in Hell.....

I wouldn't think God would hold the lack of judgement and long term planning ability of an 8 year old against him for eternity......

Then again, if you listen to some.....
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Simple Minded wrote:
Hopefully, I won't end up in Hell.....

I wouldn't think God would hold the lack of judgement and long term planning ability of an 8 year old against him for eternity......
Preview of your final judgment:

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Not sure whether this fits here

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Grand Opening


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"We've deliberately spread false information about the location to avoid trouble before we had the authorization to go ahead," businessman behind the project Peter Laskaris told the Austrian Der Standard newspaper. "But it will be situated in a location that doesn't disturb anyone."

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