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September 30, 2023

September 2023 Bonus Review: Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood

A Hollywood (urban?) legend who loved his job...uh, so to speak

the true crime that's worth your time

The crime
Prostitution and procurement, ostensibly, although Scotty Bowers seems to have avoided getting caught up/arrested or charged in vice-squad sweeps in the middle of the last century.

Bowers also seems to have avoided confronting the “tricking” he did as a tween — with and for Catholic priests — as abuse, or a situation in which he couldn’t consent meaningfully.

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