The Apparently Te Story of the Man Who Secured Gay Lovers for Old Hollywood

NETFLIX’S HOLLYWOOD: THE TE STORY OF STTY BOWERS, REAL-LIFE L.A. PIMPRYAN MURPHY’S NEW NETFLIX SERI IS SET LARGELY AT A GAS STATN BASED ON THE REAL-LIFE ONE N BY HOLLYWOOD PIMP STTY BOWERS.BY JULIE MILLERAPRIL 30, 2020STTY BOWERS AT THE ABBEY WT HOLLYWOOD ON JULY 25, 2018.BY TASIA WELLS/GETTY IMAG.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVETWO YEARS AGO, STTY BOWERS—THE LOS ANGEL HTLER WHO CLAIMED TO HAVE HOOKED OLD HOLLYWOOD’S BIGGT STARS UP WH WILLG SEXUAL PARTNERS, GAY AND STRAIGHT—WAS THE SUBJECT OF A FASCATG DOCUMENTARY, STTY AND THE SECRET HISTORY OF HOLLYWOOD. IN , THE WORLD WAR II VETERAN TURNED PIMP DISHED ON THE ALLEGED SECRET SEX LIV OF KATHARE HEPBURN, SPENCER TRACY, CARY GRANT, ROCK HUDSON, CHARL LGHTON, RAYMOND BURR, VCENT PRICE, COLE PORTER, AND VIVIEN LEIGH, AS WELL AS THE LEGENDARY GAS STATN—ON THE RNER OF NORTH VAN NS AVENUE AND HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD—WHERE HE AND HIS LIBERATED IENDS, MALE AND FEMALE, SERVICED MANY OF THEIR A-LIST CLIENTELE. RYAN MURPHY’S LATT NETFLIX SERI, HOLLYWOOD, A FICTNALIZED HOMAGE TO 1940S HOLLYWOOD, PAYS TRIBUTE TO BOWERS BY FEATURG S OWN GAS STATN AND CHARISMATIC PIMP (ERNIE, PLAYED BY DYLAN MCDERMOTT).THE REAL-LIFE BOWERS CLAIMED HE WAS WORKG AS A GAS STATN ATTENDANT AT AGE 23, SHORTLY AFTER THE WAR, WHEN ACTOR WALTER PIDGEON PULLED UP AND ASKED BOWERS TO HOP TO HIS R. IN HIS MEMOIR, FULL SERVICE: MY ADVENTUR HOLLYWOOD AND THE SECRET SEX LIV OF THE STARS, BOWERS RATNALIZED THAT HOOKG UP WH CELEBRI FOR $20 WAS EASY, LUCRATIVE WORK. AS PIDGEON SPREAD WORD ABOUT HIS REPUTATN, BOWERS SAID, THE PIMP EXPAND HIS OPERATN—SETTG UP TWO KG BEDS A PARKED TRAILER AND ENLISTG GOOD-LOOKG MEN AND WOMEN TO HELP HIS SECRETIVE E. AMONG BOWERS’S RACIT CLAIMS: THAT HE TRODUCED KATHARE HEPBURN TO 150 WOMEN OVER SEVERAL S; THAT HE SET UP CARY GRANT WH AN EARLY-REER ROCK HUDSON; AND THAT HE PROCURED SEXUAL PARTNERS FOR WALLIS SIMPSON AND EDWARD VIII. BOWERS ALSO SAID HE SLEPT WH BOTH SPENCER TRACY AND VIVIEN LEIGH; HAD A THREE-WAY WH AVA GARDNER AND LANA TURNER; HAD A THREOME WH CARY GRANT AND HIS ALLEGED LOVER, RANDOLPH STT; AND CLAIMED THAT HIS SEX LIFE WAS SO UNHIBED THAT SURPRISED EVEN SEXOLOGIST ALED KSEY.IN HIS 2012 MEMOIR, WRTEN WH LNEL FRIEDBERG, BOWERS WROTE, “I WAS SETTG UP AN AVERAGE OF 15-20 TRICKS A DAY. THIS WAS A 24/7 OPERATN, EXTENDG OVER A PERD OF, SAY, 30 TO 40 YEARS. AS FOR TRICKS THAT I PERFORMED PERSONALLY, I WAS OFTEN SEEG TWO OR THREE PEOPLE A DAY.”PRR TO HIS MEMOIR, BOWERS WAS FASTIDLY DISCREET. HE NEVER KEPT A BLACK BOOK OF CLIENT NAM, REFG TO SPEAK ABOUT HIS FAMO CLIENTS UNTIL AFTER THEY DIED. HOMOSEXUALY WAS NOT LEGALIZED CALIFORNIA UNTIL THE 1970S; BOWERS’S OPERATN ALLEGEDLY HELPED UNTLS MEN AND WOMEN DULGE SEXUALLY WHOUT ENDANGERG THEIR REERS, REPUTATNS, OR, SOME S, MARRIAG.“THERE ALWAYS WILL BE SECRET LIFE HAPPENG,” BOWERS TOLD THE GUARDIAN 2018. “PEOPLE SHOULD DO WHAT PLEAS THEM AND THE OTHER PERSON—SOME PEOPLE JT PLEASE MORE THAN A FEW.”IN AN TERVIEW WH VANY FAIR, DYLAN MCDERMOTT SAID THAT HIS CHARACTER WAS CERTALY SPIRED BY BOWERS—BUT ALSO BY CLARK GABLE’S CHARACTER THE 1961 FILM THE MISFS. “I HAVE A POSTER OF THE MISFS STG MY BATHROOM AND LOOK AT EVERY DAY,” MCDERMOTT SAID, CG GABLE’S MTACHED AGG PLAYBOY AS A “ME” FOR ERNIE. “THERE WAS A CERTA QUALY HIM I WANTED. HIS HAIR, HIS MTACHE, THE WAY HE RRIED HIMSELF, AND HIS OPTIMISM, IF YOU WILL. IF STTY BOWERS AND CLARK GABLE HAD A LOVE CHILD, WOULD BE ERNIE.”DYLAN MCDERMOTT (LEFT) HOLLYWOOD MOLED THE CHARACTER'S LOOK AFTER CLARK GABLE'S THE MISFS (SET).LEFT, URTY OF NETFLIX; RIGHT, OM THE EVERETT COLLECTN.MCDERMOTT SAID THAT HE LOVED THE NTRADICTNS OF HIS CHARACTER. SURE, ERNIE IS A PIMP—BUT HE’S ALSO A SEXUALLY LIBERATED AND TOLERANT GUY WHO TAK RE OF HIS WORKERS AND FACILAT SATISFYG SEX FOR HIS CLIENTS A REPRSED ERA. “YOU’RE EXPECTG ERNIE TO EXPLO THE GUYS…BUT THE GREAT TWIST ON THE CHARACTER IS THAT HE’S NOT EXPLOG THEM. HE ACTUALLY LOV THE GUYS AND TAK RE OF THEM,” THE ACTOR POTED OUT.DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKER MATT TYRNER—WHO IS ALSO A FORMER VANY FAIR WRER AND EDOR—HAS SCRIBED BOWERS G SIAR TERMS. AFTER SPEAKG TO SOME OF THE MEN WHO WORKED FOR BOWERS, TYRNER TOLD BUZZFEED THAT THEY SEEMED TO BE “HAPPY HOOKERS.… IT SEEMED TO BE VERY OL WH EVERYBODY WHO I TALKED TO.… THIS SEEMED TO BE HIGHLY NSENSUAL. AND NO ONE SEEMED TO HAVE A PROBLEM, WHETHER THEY WERE GAY, STRAIGHT, OR OTHERWISE, WH WHAT STTY WAS ASKG.”SPEAKG TO VANY FAIR EARLIER THIS YEAR, MURPHY SAID HE ED THE GAS STATN AS THE BACKDROP OF HIS SERI BEE HE WAS FASCATED BY THE FACT THAT “THERE WAS A MOMENT WHERE PEOPLE HAD TO GO TO THIS GAS STATN TO BE THEMSELV, TO BE ABLE TO EXPRS THEIR SEXUALY, TO BE ABLE TO EXPRS THEIR FANTASY.” AND THAT’S APPARENTLY JT WHAT BOWERS TEND. IN A 2012 TERVIEW, THE HTLER SAID THAT HE NEVER JUDGED HIS CLIENTELE. “SO THEY LIKED SEX HOW THEY LIKED ,” HE TOLD THE NEW YORK TIM. “WHO R?”MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR— BEHOLD DUNE: AN EXCLIVE LOOK AT TIMOTHéE CHALAMET, ZENDAYA, OSR ISAAC, AND MORE— HOW TO WATCH EVERY MARVEL MOVIE ORR— DAVID SIMON ON THE WIRE AND HIS EQUALLY PISSED-OFF NEW SHOW, THE PLOT AGAST AMERI— BEYOND TIGER KG: 8 TE-CRIME DOCUMENTARI THAT SPARKED A SEND LOOK FROM THE LAW— DOWNTON ABBEY’S JULIAN FELLOW ON HIS NEW SERI AND THE BETY OF A SCHEMG WOMAN— ALL THE NEW 2020 MOVI STREAMG EARLY BEE OF CORONAVIS— FROM THE ARCHIVE: THE NOTOR RIVALRY OF HEDDA HOPPER AND LOUELLA PARSONS, HOLLYWOOD’S DUELG GOSSIP COLUMNISTSLOOKG FOR MORE? SIGN UP FOR OUR DAILY HOLLYWOOD NEWSLETTER AND NEVER MISS A STORY.MOST POPULARRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHTHE ELVIS PRLEY WE DIDN’T SEE ELVISBY KATEY RICHSOUND OF FREEDOM: THE WILD TE STORY BEHD 2023’S MOST CONTROVERSIAL FILMBY EVE BATEYJULIE MILLER
MEET STTY BOWERS, A MAN WHO SET GAY DAT FOR HOLLYWOOD STARS OM CARY GRANT TO KATE HEPBURN
THE APPARENTLY TE STORY OF THE MAN WHO SECURED GAY LOVERS FOR OLD HOLLYWOOD
THE GAY SEX LIV OF HOLLYWOOD'S GOLN AGE STARS REVEALED NEW DOCUMENTARYALSO: PARKER POSEY ON WHETHER THE ORIGAL DR. SMH WAS GAY!{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}MOVIBY MICHAEL MTOJULY 30, 2018/12:48 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:4800PX;WIDTH:4508PX;}KM ARCHIVE/GETTY ROCK HUDSON GETTG A MASSAGE AT THE FLANDIA BATHS HOLLYWOOD, CA, 1950. (PHOTO BY KM ARCHIVE/GETTY IMAG)BY MICHAEL MTOJULY 30, 2018 / 12:48 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"THE GAY SEX LIV OF HOLLYWOOD'S GOLN AGE STARS REVEALED NEW DOCUMENTARY","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2018-07-30T16:48:41.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2018-07-30T16:48:41.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"MICHAEL MTO","KEYWORDS":"MTO UNFILTERED","ARTICLESECTN":"MOVI"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“WHAT’S WRONG WH BEG GAY?” SAYS OLD-TIME PROCURER TO THE STARS STTY BOWERS MATT TYRNER’S DOCUMENTARY STTY AND THE SECRET HISTORY OF HOLLYWOOD. IT HAPPENS WHEN SOMEONE AT A BOWERS BOOK SIGNG PLAS THAT THE THOR BROKE THE NFINCE OF HIS CELEBRY CLIENTS AND WONRS WHAT IF THOSE AD INS HAVE GRANDCHILDREN AND THEY FD OUT THEY WERE GAY. THE “SO WHAT?” LE OF FENSE OM BOWERS IS SPOT ON, AND HE ALSO SAYS THAT THE REALLY WEREN’T SECRETS TO THOSE HOLLYWOOD WHO KNEW WHAT WAS GOG ON {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;PADDG-BOTTOM:56.49999999999999%;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;POSN:ABSOLUTE;HEIGHT:100% !IMPORTANT;WIDTH:100% !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BIS, I WOULD ADD, CELEBS’ PRIVATE LIV ARE ALWAYS DISSECTED BY THE MEDIA AND THE PUBLIC, AND IF EVERYONE N EMBRACE THE LI ALL THOSE YEARS, THEN WHY NOT FALLY LEARN THE TTH? THERE WERE A LOT OF GAYS THE MOVI (BIG SURPRISE), AND THEY WERE ONLY HUMAN THEIR QUT FOR NSTANT SEX, AS LONG AS NO ONE BLEW THE WHISTLE ON THEM, AND BOWERS NEVER DID—UNTIL THEY WERE GONE, {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE TTHS YOU LEARN OM THE FILM (AND THE BOOK THAT PRECED ) CLU THE FOLLOWG:{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE TRACY-HEPBURN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;PADDG-BOTTOM:75%;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;POSN:ABSOLUTE;HEIGHT:100% !IMPORTANT;WIDTH:100% !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SPENCER TRACY AND KATHERE HEPBURN WOMAN OF THE YEAR (1942).{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SPENCER TRACY AND KATHARE HEPBURN DID NOT ACTUALLY LIVE TOGETHER AND WEREN’T A UPLE AT ALL, BUT THE BIG SHOTS THOUGHT WOULD BE BETTER TO PAWN THEM OFF AS AN ADULTERO DUO THAN A GAY MAN AND A LBIAN. OH, BY THE WAY, THE DE AND DUCHS OF WDSOR WERE GAY, {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HUDSON, GRANT, AND A FLOOK MARRIAGEHERBERT DORFMAN/CORBIS VIA GETTY IMAGROCK HUDSON (PHOTO BY HERBERT DORFMAN/CORBIS VIA GETTY IMAG){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ROCK HUDSON MARRIED HIS AGENT’S SECRETARY SHORTLY AFTER LIFE MAGAZE POTED OUT THAT THE HUNKY ACTOR WASN’T MARRIED AND WOULD SOON NEED TO EXPLA WHY. ON THE WAY UP THE LADR, BOWERS HAD SET ROCK UP WH THE TR GAY CARY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}GROUP PLAY FOR COLE PORTERGETTYTHE AMERIN POSER AND LYRICIST COLE PORTER (1891-1964) SS AT THE PIANO. (PHOTO BY © HULTON-DTSCH COLLECTN/CORBIS/CORBIS VIA GETTY IMAG){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WTY SONGWRER COLE PORTER ASKED BOWERS FOR 15 GUYS AT ONCE, SO HE ULD BLOW THEM ALL, ONE BY ONE. I GUS HE WAS LIVG OUT HIS H SONG, “YOU’RE THE TOP.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BOWERS WAS A {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BOWERS ALSO PROVID OPPOSE-SEX PARTNERS FOR STARS LIKE VIVIEN LEIGH AND BETTE DAVIS. AND BY THE WAY, HE NEVER TOOK A PENNY! HE JT WANTED PEOPLE TO BE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HOLY TRY20TH CENTURY FOX/ARCHIVE PHOTOS/GETTY IMAGMARILYN MONROE (1926 - 1962) AND TOM EWELL (1909 - 1994) A SCENE OM 'THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH', DIRECTED BY BILLY WILR, 1955. (PHOTO BY 20TH CENTURY FOX/ARCHIVE PHOTOS/GETTY IMAG){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}GAY DIRECTOR GEE COR WAS “THE SALIVATOR,” MPY ACTOR PL LYN WAS THE DNK, AND THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH -STAR TOM EWELL HAD AN CH FOR A {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BOWERS' LIPS ARE SEALED (FOR NOW)EARL LEAF/MICHAEL OCHS ARCHIV/GETTY IMAGLOS ANGELES - JUNE 1: ACTOR CLT EASTWOOD TALKS ON A PAY PHONE OUTSI HIS HOME ON JUNE 1, 1956 LOS ANGEL, CALIFORNIA. (PHOTO BY EARL LEAF/MICHAEL OCHS ARCHIV/GETTY IMAG){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BEFORE THE MOVIE, WAS NOTED THAT WHATEVER BOWERS KNOWS ABOUT LIVG STARS LIKE CLT EASTWOOD AND ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER IS NOT CLUD. (NOR ARE SOME OF THE MORE BODY-FLUID-ORIENTED TAL OM THE BOOK, FULL SERVICE. Y, I READ —TWICE.){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}A PROGRSIVE KD OF MARRIAGETASIA WELLS/GETTY IMAGWEST HOLLYWOOD, CA - JULY 25: STTY BOWERS ATTENDS CY OF WT HOLLYWOOD HONORS HOLLYWOOD LEGEND STTY BOWERS AT THE ABBEY ON JULY 25, 2018 WT HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA. (PHOTO BY TASIA WELLS/GETTY IMAG){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}STTY BOWERS ONT OF A POSTER FOR STTY AND THE SECRET HISTORY OF {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HERE’S THE REAL SHOCK: BOWERS HIMSELF—WHO HAD SEX WH SOME OF HIS MALE MOVIE STAR CLIENTS BACK THEN, STARTG WH WALTER PIDGEON—HAS HAD A WIFE NAMED LOIS FOR 34 YEARS. THEIR DYNAMIC IS TERTG BEE LOIS SAYS SHE WISH BOWERS HAD TOLD HER ABOUT HIS PAST WHEN THEY MET. HE RPONDS THAT SHE DIDN’T TELL HIM ANYTHG ABOUT HER PAST EHER, AND FOR ALL HE KNEW, SHE MIGHT HAVE BEEN A HOOKER. YEAH, BUT HE WOULD HAVE LOVED THAT!{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}A POCKETFUL OF POSEYNETFLIXLOST IN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AS LONG AS WE’RE OUTG OLD INS, PARKER POSEY—WHO’S CELEBRATG A NEW MEMOIR, YOU’RE ON AN AIRPLANE—HAPPENS TO PLAY DR. SMH ON NETFLIX’S LOST SPACE, A CHARACTER WH AN TERTG HISTORY. ON THE ORIGAL LOST SPACE SERI THE ‘60S, THE PART WAS A RATHER EFFEMATE AND EXCABLE MALE AS PLAYED BY JONATHAN HARRIS. (WHEN THE ROBOT YELPED “DANGER, WILL ROBSON!” MANY VIEWERS THOUGHT THEY WERE WARNG WILL ABOUT THE DOCTOR.) EVEN -STAR JUNE LOCKHART LATER SAID THAT THE CHARACTER WAS FELY GAY. SO I JT ASKED PARKER FOR HER TAKE ON THAT WHOLE SUATN, AND SHE FTLY REPLIED, “I THK HE WAS VERY HAPPY!”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}I WAS THRILLED WHEN I RECEIVED A PY OF THE NEW BOOK BLAME IT ON BIAN DEL R THE MAIL, UNTIL I OPENED AND THE DRAG RACE WNER HAD WRTEN, “MICHAEL, DO YOU NEED A LARGE PRT VERSN?” NO, I ULD READ JT FE—AND ’S HILAR, WH BIAN RPONDG TO MA-UP QUTNS WH TWISTED ANSWERS. WHEN ASKED IF SHE HAS NERV BEFORE A SHOW AND IF SO, HOW SHE P WH , BIAN SAYS, “WE ALL HAVE DIFFERENT PG MECHANISMS TO WORK THROUGH OUR NERV... BARBRA STREISAND THROWS BOILG HOT TEA ON THE LIGHTG DIRECTOR. AND MERYL STREEP MASTURBAT TO HOLOT PICTUR OM ACHWZ. I HAVE A MUCH EASIER WAY TO PE: I DO WH YOGA AND MEDATN. AND BY ‘YOGA AND MEDATN’, I MEAN BOOZE AND PILLS.”JEFF KRAVZ/FILMMAGICSAN FRANCISCO, CA - JUNE 02: BIAN DEL R PERFORMS ON THE COLOSSAL STAGE DURG CLTERFT AT CIVIC CENTER PLAZA AND THE BILL GRAHAM CIVIC AUDORIUM ON JUNE 2, 2018 SAN FRANCIS, CALIFORNIA. (PHOTO BY JEFF KRAVZ/FILMMAGIC){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ON BROADWAY, THE GO-GO’S MIL HEAD OVER HEELS IS A HANER-EE HIGH (SEE MY REVIEW HERE) AND SO WAS THE OPENG NIGHT PARTY AT GUASTAVO’S. AT THE EVENT, GO-GO JANE WIEDL TOLD ME SHE WELLED UP WATCHG THE SHOW BEE SHE THOUGHT OF THE LTLE PUNK GIRL SHE WAS 40 YEARS AGO, “AND LOOK AT WHO I AM TODAY.” IS THERE STILL THAT PUNK GIRL SI HER? “Y!” SHE SAID, LGHG AND POTG TO HER WONRFULLY WACKY OUTF—A RED-ROS-PATTERNED DRS WH LACE-UP BAT {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ALSO THERE, DOMIQUE JACKSON OM POSE SAID SHE HAD BEEN SPIRED TO S WH ME AND SOME OTHERS AT A WHOOPI GOLDBERG SAGE TABLE LAST YEAR. “AND NOW YOU’RE BIGGER THAN I AM,” I NOTED. “NO, I’M NOT,” SHE JOKED, SG. “I HAD SURGERY. I CUT OFF!”ANGELA WEISS/AFP/GETTYDOMIQUE JACKSON ATTENDS THE 2018 FX ANNUAL ALL-STAR PARTY AT SVA THEATRE ON MARCH 15, 2018 NEW YORK CY. / AFP PHOTO / ANGELA WEISS (PHOTO CRED SHOULD READ ANGELA WEISS/AFP/GETTY IMAG){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AND OUR LIPS WEREN’T SEALED WHEN I DID ONSTAGE Q&AS WH JOHN WATERS AT IFC CENTER ON FRIDAY, AFTER SHOWGS OF HAIRSPRAY AND FEMALE TROUBLE. JOHN ADMTED THAT AT ONE POT THE PREPARATN FOR HIS DARK 1994 EDY SERIAL MOM, ROSEANNE WAS GOG TO PLAY THE TLE ROLE (WHICH END UP GOG TO KATHLEEN TURNER). “SHE WAS A LIBERAL THEN,” WATERS ADPANNED. “WHAT HAPPENED?”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}I'M DREAMG OF A WHE CHRISTMASWALTER MCBRI/WIREIMAGENEW YORK, NY - JULY 23: KATE BORNSTE ATTENDS THE BROADWAY OPENG NIGHT AFTER PARTY FOR 'STRAIGHT WHE MEN' BROADWAY OPENG NIGHT AT DADONG ON JULY 23, 2018 NEW YORK C (PHOTO BY WALTER MCBRI/WIREIMAGE){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}KATE BORNSTE ATTENDS THE OPENG NIGHT AFTER PARTY FOR STRAIGHT WHE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“LADI AND GENTLEMEN AND THE RT OF ,” SAYS NONBARY PERFORMANCE ARTIST AND THOR KATE BORNSTE ON WELG TO YOUNG JEAN LEE'S STRAIGHT WHE MEN. JANGLY RAVE MIC HAD PRECED THE SHOW, AND BORNSTE WAS NOW ONSTAGE WH TWO-SPIR PERFORMER-WRER-ACTIVIST TY DEFOE—THEY’RE THE PEOPLE CHARGE, ACRDG TO THE PROGRAM—BOTH BACKED BY A SILVER TSEL {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ALL OF IS NOT WHAT YOU’D EXPECT AND NOT WHAT MAY SEEM, WHICH WAS EXACTLY THE POT. “NEHER OF IS A STRAIGHT WHE MALE,” KATE ADDS, AND THE TWO NTUE TO BANTER HILARLY, WHILE BRGG UP POTS ABOUT PRIVILEGE, EXPECTATN, ACCEPTANCE, AND REFAL TO HATE. AND THEN THE PLAY BEGS, WH THOSE TWO OCSNALLY APPEARG ONSTAGE TO GUI THE ACTORS THEIR MOVEMENTS, STAGEHANDS ALSO FULL VIEW AS THEY REMOVE PROPS BETWEEN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WHAT FOLLOWS IS A CHRISTMAS EVE GATHERG WH A SPUNKY OLD WIDOWER NAMED ED (STEPHEN PAYNE) WHO BRGS TOGETHER HIS THREE SONS FOR BANTER, CHE FOOD, AND MISBEGOTTEN GIFT GIVG. OF THE SONS, JAKE (JOSH CHARL) TURNS OUT TO BE A RICH BANKER WHO ASTS ON HIS PRIVILEGE, ONLY HIRG WH AT HIS PANY, TO GIVE THE CLIENTS WHAT THEY SUPPOSEDLY WANT, EVEN THOUGH HE HAPPENS TO HAVE MIXED RACE CHILDREN. DREW (ARMIE HAMMER OM CALL ME BY YOUR NAME) HAS MANAGED TO DO GOOD THE WORLD WH HIS TEACHGS AND WRGS. AND MATT (PL SCHNEIR) IS A HARVARD GRAD WHO IS STILL PAYG OFF STUNT LOANS AND WHO’S PRETTY MUCH GIVEN UP, HAVG FAILED AT TRYG TO CHANGE THE WORLD, SO HE’S NOW LIVG WH DAD AND CRYG AT UNSPECTG MOMENTS. (DREW ACTUALLY WONRS IF MATT MIGHT BE GAY AND NEED OF G OUT.)JOAN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}FROM LEFT: ARMIE HAMMER, STEPHEN PAYNE, AND PL SCHNEIR STRAIGHT WHE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE THREE BROTHERS HAVE A HIGHLY ENTERTAG MARARIE, GOG TO RACY, SILLY SHTICK AS IF THEY WERE STILL PRE-ADOLCENTS, AND TWO FUNNY SET PIEC EMERGE—A KKK VERSN OF THE TLE SONG OM OKLAHOMA! (YOU HAVE TO SEE THE SHOW) AND A WILD DANCE ROUTE WHERE THE BROTHERS GET TO RRY ON AND SHOW OFF TAG-TEAM FASHN. BUT THGS ARE AMISS AS JAKE’S GIFT TO DAD BREAKS, DAD N’T REMEMBER THE WORDS TO “O, TANNENBM,” AND DREW TRI TO HELP MATT OUT OF HIS PRSN WHILE MAKG THGS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}JAKE’S IAL VIEW OF MATT—THAT HE’S SELF-SABOTAGG ORR TO MAKE WAY FOR NON-WH TO GET OPPORTUNI—TURNS OUT TO BE MISGUID, AS THE TER-RELATNSHIPS GROW MORE PLITED. MORE LIKELY, MATT ISN’T GRABBG AT HIS WHE PRIVILEGE BEE THE RULTS DIDN’T MAKE HIM FEEL ALL THAT PRIVILEGED. THE PLAY, AS DIRECTED BY ANNA D. SHAPIRO, IS UNIFORMLY WELL-ACTED AND QUE FUNNY, THOUGH THE JOK ARE MORE PERSUASIVE THAN THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}MTO {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS

NETFLIX’S HOLLYWOOD: THE TE STORY OF STTY BOWERS, REAL-LIFE L.A. PIMPRYAN MURPHY’S NEW NETFLIX SERI IS SET LARGELY AT A GAS STATN BASED ON THE REAL-LIFE ONE N BY HOLLYWOOD PIMP STTY BOWERS.BY JULIE MILLERAPRIL 30, 2020STTY BOWERS AT THE ABBEY WT HOLLYWOOD ON JULY 25, 2018.BY TASIA WELLS/GETTY IMAG.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVETWO YEARS AGO, STTY BOWERS—THE LOS ANGEL HTLER WHO CLAIMED TO HAVE HOOKED OLD HOLLYWOOD’S BIGGT STARS UP WH WILLG SEXUAL PARTNERS, GAY AND STRAIGHT—WAS THE SUBJECT OF A FASCATG DOCUMENTARY, STTY AND THE SECRET HISTORY OF HOLLYWOOD. IN , THE WORLD WAR II VETERAN TURNED PIMP DISHED ON THE ALLEGED SECRET SEX LIV OF KATHARE HEPBURN, SPENCER TRACY, CARY GRANT, ROCK HUDSON, CHARL LGHTON, RAYMOND BURR, VCENT PRICE, COLE PORTER, AND VIVIEN LEIGH, AS WELL AS THE LEGENDARY GAS STATN—ON THE RNER OF NORTH VAN NS AVENUE AND HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD—WHERE HE AND HIS LIBERATED IENDS, MALE AND FEMALE, SERVICED MANY OF THEIR A-LIST CLIENTELE. RYAN MURPHY’S LATT NETFLIX SERI, HOLLYWOOD, A FICTNALIZED HOMAGE TO 1940S HOLLYWOOD, PAYS TRIBUTE TO BOWERS BY FEATURG S OWN GAS STATN AND CHARISMATIC PIMP (ERNIE, PLAYED BY DYLAN MCDERMOTT).THE REAL-LIFE BOWERS CLAIMED HE WAS WORKG AS A GAS STATN ATTENDANT AT AGE 23, SHORTLY AFTER THE WAR, WHEN ACTOR WALTER PIDGEON PULLED UP AND ASKED BOWERS TO HOP TO HIS R. IN HIS MEMOIR, FULL SERVICE: MY ADVENTUR HOLLYWOOD AND THE SECRET SEX LIV OF THE STARS, BOWERS RATNALIZED THAT HOOKG UP WH CELEBRI FOR $20 WAS EASY, LUCRATIVE WORK. AS PIDGEON SPREAD WORD ABOUT HIS REPUTATN, BOWERS SAID, THE PIMP EXPAND HIS OPERATN—SETTG UP TWO KG BEDS A PARKED TRAILER AND ENLISTG GOOD-LOOKG MEN AND WOMEN TO HELP HIS SECRETIVE E. AMONG BOWERS’S RACIT CLAIMS: THAT HE TRODUCED KATHARE HEPBURN TO 150 WOMEN OVER SEVERAL S; THAT HE SET UP CARY GRANT WH AN EARLY-REER ROCK HUDSON; AND THAT HE PROCURED SEXUAL PARTNERS FOR WALLIS SIMPSON AND EDWARD VIII. BOWERS ALSO SAID HE SLEPT WH BOTH SPENCER TRACY AND VIVIEN LEIGH; HAD A THREE-WAY WH AVA GARDNER AND LANA TURNER; HAD A THREOME WH CARY GRANT AND HIS ALLEGED LOVER, RANDOLPH STT; AND CLAIMED THAT HIS SEX LIFE WAS SO UNHIBED THAT SURPRISED EVEN SEXOLOGIST ALED KSEY.IN HIS 2012 MEMOIR, WRTEN WH LNEL FRIEDBERG, BOWERS WROTE, “I WAS SETTG UP AN AVERAGE OF 15-20 TRICKS A DAY. THIS WAS A 24/7 OPERATN, EXTENDG OVER A PERD OF, SAY, 30 TO 40 YEARS. AS FOR TRICKS THAT I PERFORMED PERSONALLY, I WAS OFTEN SEEG TWO OR THREE PEOPLE A DAY.”PRR TO HIS MEMOIR, BOWERS WAS FASTIDLY DISCREET. HE NEVER KEPT A BLACK BOOK OF CLIENT NAM, REFG TO SPEAK ABOUT HIS FAMO CLIENTS UNTIL AFTER THEY DIED. HOMOSEXUALY WAS NOT LEGALIZED CALIFORNIA UNTIL THE 1970S; BOWERS’S OPERATN ALLEGEDLY HELPED UNTLS MEN AND WOMEN DULGE SEXUALLY WHOUT ENDANGERG THEIR REERS, REPUTATNS, OR, SOME S, MARRIAG.“THERE ALWAYS WILL BE SECRET LIFE HAPPENG,” BOWERS TOLD THE GUARDIAN 2018. “PEOPLE SHOULD DO WHAT PLEAS THEM AND THE OTHER PERSON—SOME PEOPLE JT PLEASE MORE THAN A FEW.”IN AN TERVIEW WH VANY FAIR, DYLAN MCDERMOTT SAID THAT HIS CHARACTER WAS CERTALY SPIRED BY BOWERS—BUT ALSO BY CLARK GABLE’S CHARACTER THE 1961 FILM THE MISFS. “I HAVE A POSTER OF THE MISFS STG MY BATHROOM AND LOOK AT EVERY DAY,” MCDERMOTT SAID, CG GABLE’S MTACHED AGG PLAYBOY AS A “ME” FOR ERNIE. “THERE WAS A CERTA QUALY HIM I WANTED. HIS HAIR, HIS MTACHE, THE WAY HE RRIED HIMSELF, AND HIS OPTIMISM, IF YOU WILL. IF STTY BOWERS AND CLARK GABLE HAD A LOVE CHILD, WOULD BE ERNIE.”DYLAN MCDERMOTT (LEFT) HOLLYWOOD MOLED THE CHARACTER'S LOOK AFTER CLARK GABLE'S THE MISFS (SET).LEFT, URTY OF NETFLIX; RIGHT, OM THE EVERETT COLLECTN.MCDERMOTT SAID THAT HE LOVED THE NTRADICTNS OF HIS CHARACTER. SURE, ERNIE IS A PIMP—BUT HE’S ALSO A SEXUALLY LIBERATED AND TOLERANT GUY WHO TAK RE OF HIS WORKERS AND FACILAT SATISFYG SEX FOR HIS CLIENTS A REPRSED ERA. “YOU’RE EXPECTG ERNIE TO EXPLO THE GUYS…BUT THE GREAT TWIST ON THE CHARACTER IS THAT HE’S NOT EXPLOG THEM. HE ACTUALLY LOV THE GUYS AND TAK RE OF THEM,” THE ACTOR POTED OUT.DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKER MATT TYRNER—WHO IS ALSO A FORMER VANY FAIR WRER AND EDOR—HAS SCRIBED BOWERS G SIAR TERMS. AFTER SPEAKG TO SOME OF THE MEN WHO WORKED FOR BOWERS, TYRNER TOLD BUZZFEED THAT THEY SEEMED TO BE “HAPPY HOOKERS.… IT SEEMED TO BE VERY OL WH EVERYBODY WHO I TALKED TO.… THIS SEEMED TO BE HIGHLY NSENSUAL. AND NO ONE SEEMED TO HAVE A PROBLEM, WHETHER THEY WERE GAY, STRAIGHT, OR OTHERWISE, WH WHAT STTY WAS ASKG.”SPEAKG TO VANY FAIR EARLIER THIS YEAR, MURPHY SAID HE ED THE GAS STATN AS THE BACKDROP OF HIS SERI BEE HE WAS FASCATED BY THE FACT THAT “THERE WAS A MOMENT WHERE PEOPLE HAD TO GO TO THIS GAS STATN TO BE THEMSELV, TO BE ABLE TO EXPRS THEIR SEXUALY, TO BE ABLE TO EXPRS THEIR FANTASY.” AND THAT’S APPARENTLY JT WHAT BOWERS TEND. IN A 2012 TERVIEW, THE HTLER SAID THAT HE NEVER JUDGED HIS CLIENTELE. “SO THEY LIKED SEX HOW THEY LIKED ,” HE TOLD THE NEW YORK TIM. “WHO R?”MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR— BEHOLD DUNE: AN EXCLIVE LOOK AT TIMOTHéE CHALAMET, ZENDAYA, OSR ISAAC, AND MORE— HOW TO WATCH EVERY MARVEL MOVIE ORR— DAVID SIMON ON THE WIRE AND HIS EQUALLY PISSED-OFF NEW SHOW, THE PLOT AGAST AMERI— BEYOND TIGER KG: 8 TE-CRIME DOCUMENTARI THAT SPARKED A SEND LOOK FROM THE LAW— DOWNTON ABBEY’S JULIAN FELLOW ON HIS NEW SERI AND THE BETY OF A SCHEMG WOMAN— ALL THE NEW 2020 MOVI STREAMG EARLY BEE OF CORONAVIS— FROM THE ARCHIVE: THE NOTOR RIVALRY OF HEDDA HOPPER AND LOUELLA PARSONS, HOLLYWOOD’S DUELG GOSSIP COLUMNISTSLOOKG FOR MORE? SIGN UP FOR OUR DAILY HOLLYWOOD NEWSLETTER AND NEVER MISS A STORY.MOST POPULARRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHTHE ELVIS PRLEY WE DIDN’T SEE ELVISBY KATEY RICHSOUND OF FREEDOM: THE WILD TE STORY BEHD 2023’S MOST CONTROVERSIAL FILMBY EVE BATEYJULIE MILLER

Is Stty Bowers, the famo Hollywood pimp tellg the tth about Spencer Tracy and Kathare Hepburn beg gay?  Here's a nfirmg story... * scotty bowers gay *

Picture a 1940s gas statn that doubl as a pickup spot, plete wh clanste hetero and homosexual enunters, a trailer out back for secret renz-vo, and young, strappg men offerg their “servic” for $20 apiece. Well, not if you’ve heard of Stty the Goln Age of Hollywood, Bowers, an Illois native, arranged sexual assignatns (both gay and straight) for some of the world’s biggt stars.

In the years followg World War II, was a crime to be gay. Hollywood, once an epicenter of sexual eedom, participated “straightwashg, ” or erasg gay sir and narrativ om s history and prent.

MEET STTY BOWERS, A MAN WHO SET GAY DAT FOR HOLLYWOOD STARS OM CARY GRANT TO KATE HEPBURN

Also: Parker Posey on whether the origal Dr. Smh was gay! * scotty bowers gay *

This forced gay men and women, pecially those the public eye, unrground and th brought about Stty Bowers.

He garnered even more notoriety due to his iendship wh director Gee Cor, also featured Hollywood for his famed parti, rampant wh gay affairs. Greenwich EntertamentStty Bowers, who challenged the genteel image of stud-system Hollywood wh a startlg 2012 book which he claimed to have arranged sexual liaisons for a long list of gay and bisexual stars and other show bs figur, died on Oct. Although he scribed terg to all sorts of sexual batns, he said he had often surreptly provid willg men to male Hollywood figur and willg women to female on an era when beg gay uld a wrote of funnelg women to Kathare Hepburn, of havg a sexual enunter himself wh Spencer Tracy, of arrangg same-sex partners for the de and duchs of Wdsor.

THE GAY SEX LIV OF HOLLYWOOD'S GOLN AGE STARS REVEALED NEW DOCUMENTARYALSO: PARKER POSEY ON WHETHER THE ORIGAL DR. SMH WAS GAY!{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}MOVIBY MICHAEL MTOJULY 30, 2018/12:48 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:4800PX;WIDTH:4508PX;}KM ARCHIVE/GETTY ROCK HUDSON GETTG A MASSAGE AT THE FLANDIA BATHS HOLLYWOOD, CA, 1950. (PHOTO BY KM ARCHIVE/GETTY IMAG)BY MICHAEL MTOJULY 30, 2018 / 12:48 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"THE GAY SEX LIV OF HOLLYWOOD'S GOLN AGE STARS REVEALED NEW DOCUMENTARY","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2018-07-30T16:48:41.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2018-07-30T16:48:41.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"MICHAEL MTO","KEYWORDS":"MTO UNFILTERED","ARTICLESECTN":"MOVI"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“WHAT’S WRONG WH BEG GAY?” SAYS OLD-TIME PROCURER TO THE STARS STTY BOWERS MATT TYRNER’S DOCUMENTARY STTY AND THE SECRET HISTORY OF HOLLYWOOD. IT HAPPENS WHEN SOMEONE AT A BOWERS BOOK SIGNG PLAS THAT THE THOR BROKE THE NFINCE OF HIS CELEBRY CLIENTS AND WONRS WHAT IF THOSE AD INS HAVE GRANDCHILDREN AND THEY FD OUT THEY WERE GAY. THE “SO WHAT?” LE OF FENSE OM BOWERS IS SPOT ON, AND HE ALSO SAYS THAT THE REALLY WEREN’T SECRETS TO THOSE HOLLYWOOD WHO KNEW WHAT WAS GOG ON {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;PADDG-BOTTOM:56.49999999999999%;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > {MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;POSN:ABSOLUTE;HEIGHT:100% !IMPORTANT;WIDTH:100% !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BIS, I WOULD ADD, CELEBS’ PRIVATE LIV ARE ALWAYS DISSECTED BY THE MEDIA AND THE PUBLIC, AND IF EVERYONE N EMBRACE THE LI ALL THOSE YEARS, THEN WHY NOT FALLY LEARN THE TTH? THERE WERE A LOT OF GAYS THE MOVI (BIG SURPRISE), AND THEY WERE ONLY HUMAN THEIR QUT FOR NSTANT SEX, AS LONG AS NO ONE BLEW THE WHISTLE ON THEM, AND BOWERS NEVER DID—UNTIL THEY WERE GONE, {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE TTHS YOU LEARN OM THE FILM (AND THE BOOK THAT PRECED ) CLU THE FOLLOWG:{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE TRACY-HEPBURN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;PADDG-BOTTOM:75%;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > {MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;POSN:ABSOLUTE;HEIGHT:100% !IMPORTANT;WIDTH:100% !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SPENCER TRACY AND KATHERE HEPBURN WOMAN OF THE YEAR (1942).{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SPENCER TRACY AND KATHARE HEPBURN DID NOT ACTUALLY LIVE TOGETHER AND WEREN’T A UPLE AT ALL, BUT THE BIG SHOTS THOUGHT WOULD BE BETTER TO PAWN THEM OFF AS AN ADULTERO DUO THAN A GAY MAN AND A LBIAN. OH, BY THE WAY, THE DE AND DUCHS OF WDSOR WERE GAY, {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HUDSON, GRANT, AND A FLOOK MARRIAGEHERBERT DORFMAN/CORBIS VIA GETTY IMAGROCK HUDSON (PHOTO BY HERBERT DORFMAN/CORBIS VIA GETTY IMAG){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ROCK HUDSON MARRIED HIS AGENT’S SECRETARY SHORTLY AFTER LIFE MAGAZE POTED OUT THAT THE HUNKY ACTOR WASN’T MARRIED AND WOULD SOON NEED TO EXPLA WHY. ON THE WAY UP THE LADR, BOWERS HAD SET ROCK UP WH THE TR GAY CARY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}GROUP PLAY FOR COLE PORTERGETTYTHE AMERIN POSER AND LYRICIST COLE PORTER (1891-1964) SS AT THE PIANO. (PHOTO BY © HULTON-DTSCH COLLECTN/CORBIS/CORBIS VIA GETTY IMAG){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WTY SONGWRER COLE PORTER ASKED BOWERS FOR 15 GUYS AT ONCE, SO HE ULD BLOW THEM ALL, ONE BY ONE. I GUS HE WAS LIVG OUT HIS H SONG, “YOU’RE THE TOP.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BOWERS WAS A {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BOWERS ALSO PROVID OPPOSE-SEX PARTNERS FOR STARS LIKE VIVIEN LEIGH AND BETTE DAVIS. AND BY THE WAY, HE NEVER TOOK A PENNY! HE JT WANTED PEOPLE TO BE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HOLY TRY20TH CENTURY FOX/ARCHIVE PHOTOS/GETTY IMAGMARILYN MONROE (1926 - 1962) AND TOM EWELL (1909 - 1994) A SCENE OM 'THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH', DIRECTED BY BILLY WILR, 1955. (PHOTO BY 20TH CENTURY FOX/ARCHIVE PHOTOS/GETTY IMAG){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}GAY DIRECTOR GEE COR WAS “THE SALIVATOR,” MPY ACTOR PL LYN WAS THE DNK, AND THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH -STAR TOM EWELL HAD AN CH FOR A {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BOWERS' LIPS ARE SEALED (FOR NOW)EARL LEAF/MICHAEL OCHS ARCHIV/GETTY IMAGLOS ANGELES - JUNE 1: ACTOR CLT EASTWOOD TALKS ON A PAY PHONE OUTSI HIS HOME ON JUNE 1, 1956 LOS ANGEL, CALIFORNIA. (PHOTO BY EARL LEAF/MICHAEL OCHS ARCHIV/GETTY IMAG){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BEFORE THE MOVIE, WAS NOTED THAT WHATEVER BOWERS KNOWS ABOUT LIVG STARS LIKE CLT EASTWOOD AND ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER IS NOT CLUD. (NOR ARE SOME OF THE MORE BODY-FLUID-ORIENTED TAL OM THE BOOK, FULL SERVICE. Y, I READ —TWICE.){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}A PROGRSIVE KD OF MARRIAGETASIA WELLS/GETTY IMAGWEST HOLLYWOOD, CA - JULY 25: STTY BOWERS ATTENDS CY OF WT HOLLYWOOD HONORS HOLLYWOOD LEGEND STTY BOWERS AT THE ABBEY ON JULY 25, 2018 WT HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA. (PHOTO BY TASIA WELLS/GETTY IMAG){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}STTY BOWERS ONT OF A POSTER FOR STTY AND THE SECRET HISTORY OF {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HERE’S THE REAL SHOCK: BOWERS HIMSELF—WHO HAD SEX WH SOME OF HIS MALE MOVIE STAR CLIENTS BACK THEN, STARTG WH WALTER PIDGEON—HAS HAD A WIFE NAMED LOIS FOR 34 YEARS. THEIR DYNAMIC IS TERTG BEE LOIS SAYS SHE WISH BOWERS HAD TOLD HER ABOUT HIS PAST WHEN THEY MET. HE RPONDS THAT SHE DIDN’T TELL HIM ANYTHG ABOUT HER PAST EHER, AND FOR ALL HE KNEW, SHE MIGHT HAVE BEEN A HOOKER. YEAH, BUT HE WOULD HAVE LOVED THAT!{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}A POCKETFUL OF POSEYNETFLIXLOST IN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AS LONG AS WE’RE OUTG OLD INS, PARKER POSEY—WHO’S CELEBRATG A NEW MEMOIR, YOU’RE ON AN AIRPLANE—HAPPENS TO PLAY DR. SMH ON NETFLIX’S LOST SPACE, A CHARACTER WH AN TERTG HISTORY. ON THE ORIGAL LOST SPACE SERI THE ‘60S, THE PART WAS A RATHER EFFEMATE AND EXCABLE MALE AS PLAYED BY JONATHAN HARRIS. (WHEN THE ROBOT YELPED “DANGER, WILL ROBSON!” MANY VIEWERS THOUGHT THEY WERE WARNG WILL ABOUT THE DOCTOR.) EVEN -STAR JUNE LOCKHART LATER SAID THAT THE CHARACTER WAS FELY GAY. SO I JT ASKED PARKER FOR HER TAKE ON THAT WHOLE SUATN, AND SHE FTLY REPLIED, “I THK HE WAS VERY HAPPY!”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}I WAS THRILLED WHEN I RECEIVED A PY OF THE NEW BOOK BLAME IT ON BIAN DEL R THE MAIL, UNTIL I OPENED AND THE DRAG RACE WNER HAD WRTEN, “MICHAEL, DO YOU NEED A LARGE PRT VERSN?” NO, I ULD READ JT FE—AND ’S HILAR, WH BIAN RPONDG TO MA-UP QUTNS WH TWISTED ANSWERS. WHEN ASKED IF SHE HAS NERV BEFORE A SHOW AND IF SO, HOW SHE P WH , BIAN SAYS, “WE ALL HAVE DIFFERENT PG MECHANISMS TO WORK THROUGH OUR NERV... BARBRA STREISAND THROWS BOILG HOT TEA ON THE LIGHTG DIRECTOR. AND MERYL STREEP MASTURBAT TO HOLOT PICTUR OM ACHWZ. I HAVE A MUCH EASIER WAY TO PE: I DO WH YOGA AND MEDATN. AND BY ‘YOGA AND MEDATN’, I MEAN BOOZE AND PILLS.”JEFF KRAVZ/FILMMAGICSAN FRANCISCO, CA - JUNE 02: BIAN DEL R PERFORMS ON THE COLOSSAL STAGE DURG CLTERFT AT CIVIC CENTER PLAZA AND THE BILL GRAHAM CIVIC AUDORIUM ON JUNE 2, 2018 SAN FRANCIS, CALIFORNIA. (PHOTO BY JEFF KRAVZ/FILMMAGIC){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ON BROADWAY, THE GO-GO’S MIL HEAD OVER HEELS IS A HANER-EE HIGH (SEE MY REVIEW HERE) AND SO WAS THE OPENG NIGHT PARTY AT GUASTAVO’S. AT THE EVENT, GO-GO JANE WIEDL TOLD ME SHE WELLED UP WATCHG THE SHOW BEE SHE THOUGHT OF THE LTLE PUNK GIRL SHE WAS 40 YEARS AGO, “AND LOOK AT WHO I AM TODAY.” IS THERE STILL THAT PUNK GIRL SI HER? “Y!” SHE SAID, LGHG AND POTG TO HER WONRFULLY WACKY OUTF—A RED-ROS-PATTERNED DRS WH LACE-UP BAT {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ALSO THERE, DOMIQUE JACKSON OM POSE SAID SHE HAD BEEN SPIRED TO S WH ME AND SOME OTHERS AT A WHOOPI GOLDBERG SAGE TABLE LAST YEAR. “AND NOW YOU’RE BIGGER THAN I AM,” I NOTED. “NO, I’M NOT,” SHE JOKED, SG. “I HAD SURGERY. I CUT OFF!”ANGELA WEISS/AFP/GETTYDOMIQUE JACKSON ATTENDS THE 2018 FX ANNUAL ALL-STAR PARTY AT SVA THEATRE ON MARCH 15, 2018 NEW YORK CY. / AFP PHOTO / ANGELA WEISS (PHOTO CRED SHOULD READ ANGELA WEISS/AFP/GETTY IMAG){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AND OUR LIPS WEREN’T SEALED WHEN I DID ONSTAGE Q&AS WH JOHN WATERS AT IFC CENTER ON FRIDAY, AFTER SHOWGS OF HAIRSPRAY AND FEMALE TROUBLE. JOHN ADMTED THAT AT ONE POT THE PREPARATN FOR HIS DARK 1994 EDY SERIAL MOM, ROSEANNE WAS GOG TO PLAY THE TLE ROLE (WHICH END UP GOG TO KATHLEEN TURNER). “SHE WAS A LIBERAL THEN,” WATERS ADPANNED. “WHAT HAPPENED?”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}I'M DREAMG OF A WHE CHRISTMASWALTER MCBRI/WIREIMAGENEW YORK, NY - JULY 23: KATE BORNSTE ATTENDS THE BROADWAY OPENG NIGHT AFTER PARTY FOR 'STRAIGHT WHE MEN' BROADWAY OPENG NIGHT AT DADONG ON JULY 23, 2018 NEW YORK C (PHOTO BY WALTER MCBRI/WIREIMAGE){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}KATE BORNSTE ATTENDS THE OPENG NIGHT AFTER PARTY FOR STRAIGHT WHE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“LADI AND GENTLEMEN AND THE RT OF ,” SAYS NONBARY PERFORMANCE ARTIST AND THOR KATE BORNSTE ON WELG TO YOUNG JEAN LEE'S STRAIGHT WHE MEN. JANGLY RAVE MIC HAD PRECED THE SHOW, AND BORNSTE WAS NOW ONSTAGE WH TWO-SPIR PERFORMER-WRER-ACTIVIST TY DEFOE—THEY’RE THE PEOPLE CHARGE, ACRDG TO THE PROGRAM—BOTH BACKED BY A SILVER TSEL {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ALL OF IS NOT WHAT YOU’D EXPECT AND NOT WHAT MAY SEEM, WHICH WAS EXACTLY THE POT. “NEHER OF IS A STRAIGHT WHE MALE,” KATE ADDS, AND THE TWO NTUE TO BANTER HILARLY, WHILE BRGG UP POTS ABOUT PRIVILEGE, EXPECTATN, ACCEPTANCE, AND REFAL TO HATE. AND THEN THE PLAY BEGS, WH THOSE TWO OCSNALLY APPEARG ONSTAGE TO GUI THE ACTORS THEIR MOVEMENTS, STAGEHANDS ALSO FULL VIEW AS THEY REMOVE PROPS BETWEEN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WHAT FOLLOWS IS A CHRISTMAS EVE GATHERG WH A SPUNKY OLD WIDOWER NAMED ED (STEPHEN PAYNE) WHO BRGS TOGETHER HIS THREE SONS FOR BANTER, CHE FOOD, AND MISBEGOTTEN GIFT GIVG. OF THE SONS, JAKE (JOSH CHARL) TURNS OUT TO BE A RICH BANKER WHO ASTS ON HIS PRIVILEGE, ONLY HIRG WH AT HIS PANY, TO GIVE THE CLIENTS WHAT THEY SUPPOSEDLY WANT, EVEN THOUGH HE HAPPENS TO HAVE MIXED RACE CHILDREN. DREW (ARMIE HAMMER OM CALL ME BY YOUR NAME) HAS MANAGED TO DO GOOD THE WORLD WH HIS TEACHGS AND WRGS. AND MATT (PL SCHNEIR) IS A HARVARD GRAD WHO IS STILL PAYG OFF STUNT LOANS AND WHO’S PRETTY MUCH GIVEN UP, HAVG FAILED AT TRYG TO CHANGE THE WORLD, SO HE’S NOW LIVG WH DAD AND CRYG AT UNSPECTG MOMENTS. (DREW ACTUALLY WONRS IF MATT MIGHT BE GAY AND NEED OF G OUT.)JOAN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}FROM LEFT: ARMIE HAMMER, STEPHEN PAYNE, AND PL SCHNEIR STRAIGHT WHE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE THREE BROTHERS HAVE A HIGHLY ENTERTAG MARARIE, GOG TO RACY, SILLY SHTICK AS IF THEY WERE STILL PRE-ADOLCENTS, AND TWO FUNNY SET PIEC EMERGE—A KKK VERSN OF THE TLE SONG OM OKLAHOMA! (YOU HAVE TO SEE THE SHOW) AND A WILD DANCE ROUTE WHERE THE BROTHERS GET TO RRY ON AND SHOW OFF TAG-TEAM FASHN. BUT THGS ARE AMISS AS JAKE’S GIFT TO DAD BREAKS, DAD N’T REMEMBER THE WORDS TO “O, TANNENBM,” AND DREW TRI TO HELP MATT OUT OF HIS PRSN WHILE MAKG THGS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}JAKE’S IAL VIEW OF MATT—THAT HE’S SELF-SABOTAGG ORR TO MAKE WAY FOR NON-WH TO GET OPPORTUNI—TURNS OUT TO BE MISGUID, AS THE TER-RELATNSHIPS GROW MORE PLITED. MORE LIKELY, MATT ISN’T GRABBG AT HIS WHE PRIVILEGE BEE THE RULTS DIDN’T MAKE HIM FEEL ALL THAT PRIVILEGED. THE PLAY, AS DIRECTED BY ANNA D. SHAPIRO, IS UNIFORMLY WELL-ACTED AND QUE FUNNY, THOUGH THE JOK ARE MORE PERSUASIVE THAN THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}MTO {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS

”Hollywood studs, pecially the 1950s, were sperately aaid to project anythg other than a heterosexual, middle-Ameri-iendly image, which led to thgs like sham marriag — Rock Hudson, the qutsential leadg man, who was well-known for his homosexualy (he died of AIDS 1985), had one.

As the director Stockton Briggle put an terview wh ABC News 1999: “Homosexualy was agast the law, and they uld walk right to your hoe, right to your very bedroom and arrt you for .

So there was great fear of that hangg over all of the people, I thk, those days who were gay, livg Hollywood and workg Hollywood. Two years ago, Stty Bowers—the Los Angel htler who claimed to have hooked Old Hollywood’s biggt stars up wh willg sexual partners, gay and straight—was the subject of a fascatg documentary, Stty and the Secret History of Hollywood. Homosexualy was not legalized California until the 1970s; Bowers’s operatn allegedly helped untls men and women dulge sexually whout endangerg their reers, reputatns, or, some s, marriag.

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MEET STTY BOWERS, A MAN WHO SET GAY DAT FOR HOLLYWOOD STARS OM CARY GRANT TO KATE HEPBURN