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Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire
I am reminded of the "rear" accommodations at another filling station with boys out front--the Richfield station at 5777 Hollywood Boulevard.... First mention of the much-hyped (at least in certain circles) Bowers fantasia Full Service on NLA was around the time the book came out in 2012 (starting with post 5971). Now that the equally hyped--complete with the dubious imprimatur of Vanity Fair--documentary of the tedious old goat is out, I realized that there doesn't seem to have been a mention here about the film--which insists, of course, that everything this guy claims is true. So I decided to check in with Larry Harnisch over at The Daily Mirror to see what he might have had to say about it. Harnisch's wonderfully skeptical Daily Mirror post of August 6 (which contains links to his 26-part takedown of the book) asks a good question, in characteristic style: "Have you seen even one photograph of him with one of his alleged amours? Scotty and Spencer Tracy? Scotty and Katharine Hepburn? Scotty and, well, any A-list celebrity, really? Rin-Tin-Tin? Trigger? Flipper? Nellybelle?" You do have to wonder.
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Is Gore Vidal considered A-List? But I know that when the book came out you trashed Vidal, too.
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Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire
(And Gore Vidal's rec [recommendation] is not exactly worth much these days. There's another one screaming, remember me!? I'm not a bourgeois square! I slept with stars! I had sex once!)
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Larry Harnisch is a skeptical man, and there's nothing wrong with that. You are, too, and I can see why you might be sympatico with Larry. It's good to have a healthy amount of skepticism. But I debunked one of Larry's posts with proof. He never acknowledged it or changed the incorrect assumptions he was making. (About a different subject.)
I also asked him a couple years ago if he might be able to come up with an explanation of what those boxes are on top of the Jade/Virginia building on Hollywood Blvd. and also my standard NBC Lobby Mural question and he said he would see what he could come up with. I guess he's still working on it.
By the way, if you were in a situation that relied on some secrecy, why would you take any photos? Except for that photo you posted above, which was never taken to highlight the gas station, can anyone find a good photo of the gas station? Obviously, photos weren't as ubiquitous as they are now and all that implies. Does it really seem improbable that if you were leading a life like Scotty Bowers, that you'd have photographers around? Or friends with cameras? Wouldn't you think that celebrities would find that a deal breaker?
I just googled Heidi Fleiss. The Hollywood Madam. Where are all the photos with the high powered celebrities she was involved with. (Supposedly?) I tried to find some. I found
one. She was with Tom Sizemore (a good name for a porn star--Sizemore) and he also frequented for a time the place I worked at that I mentioned recently talking about Russ Meyer. I don't have ANY photos from my work experience of any of the people I've mentioned here before, either. So are you skeptical of my posts?
By the way, how do we know Scotty Bowers had sex with anyone???
Well, actually, since I mentioned it, in the documentary film there's some footage of Scotty in bed stroking his penis. It's somewhat pixilated. The film is not rated by the MPAA. It's NR.
And... Full Service is not a historically researched history book with exacted footnotes and copious lists of bibliographies, like so many who are criticizing it seem to think it is. (Which is how Harnisch seems to approach it.) It's a
memoir. As such, I've read many "Hollywood" books from people who don't have exact times and dates lined up correctly. That doesn't mean what they're conveying is false overall. I mean, I just watched a movie that I thought was no more than two years old and it turns out it was made over 6 years ago. Oops. Caught me!
I know we're living in a period of "What you're seeing in the news is not what's happening" and "Truth isn't truth," but, for me, I am always skeptical of skeptics who are adamant that they alone have the answers.
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MYSTERY LOCATION:
In some articles, maybe books?, I read about Sal Mineo, much to the consternation of Roddy McDowall (who I talked to on the phone once--but did
not record it) who did not think celebrities like Sal should go out dancing with the boys in public, he used to like to go to a bar/dance club called The Comet. I have never been able to find anything out about where that was...not an address much less a photo much less even any mention of such a place.
Maybe someone here can?