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Scotty Bowers

Full Service by Scotty Bowers takes about 5 hours 32 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 5 hours 32 minutes

A weekend read

First published 2012. 302 pages, about 83,050 words.

12 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 9 hours 14 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 5 hours 32 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 3 hours 28 minutes

The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

The wholesome image of America propagated by Hollywood in the 1940s, '50s and '60s is one of the most persistent in popular culture: loving wives, smiling children. But off the set, many of the actors who helped create this image were secretly leading very wild lives, and one man in particular was helping them: Scotty Bowers. At a time when sex outside of marriage was taboo, Scotty built up a reputation as the guy who could discreetly fix you up. Scotty slept with many stars himself, and connected others with his friends. Here, he tells his story for the first time. Scotty came to Hollywood after serving in the Marines in World War II, and began working at a gas station on Hollywood Boulevard. One day, he was approached and picked up by actor Walter Pidgeon, who whisked him off to a friend's villa for the first of many encounters with Hollywood's rich and famous. He developed long-term friendships with stars like Katharine Hepburn and Noel Coward, but he always kept it quiet--until he now provides a lost chapter in the history of the sexual revolution.--From publisher description.

Subjects: Male prostitutes, Sexual behavior, Motion picture actors and actresses, Biography, Motion picture producers and directors, Prostitutes

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