Fan Fair - Vol. 4

[gnash]

thanks, chuck... it looks like flickr is working for you!

[CellarDweller115]

Yup, Flickr is working much better than my PB account.

[Ellen (tellyouwhat)]

In the April 4th issue of the New Yorker there's a long feature about Anna Faris (La Shawn) -- you can't see the whole article on line unless you subscribe, but here's a link to a video of her scene stealing moments in a few films.

Ha!  Imagine trying to steal the scene from Jake G!  anyway her Brokeback scene is not in the video. 

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2011/04/anna-faris-video-tad-friend.html

She has another movie coming out in September 2011

[CellarDweller115]

Thanks for posting, Ellen!

[Lyle (Mooska)]

In honor of Anna we'll call it Fan Faris today!

[Lyle (Mooska)]

I was reading a recent Entertainment Weekly and this item peaked my interest:

Grove/Atlantic Publishing, Inc. has purchased the rights to
FULL SERVICE: MY ADVENTURES IN HOLLYWOOD AND
THE SECRET SEX LIVES OF THE STARS by Scotty Bowers,
a former G.I. who turned tricks in golden-age Hollywood using
an L.A. gas station as his base.  He claims Cary Grant and
Rita Hayworth among his onetime lovers.

***

I can't find much about Scotty Bowers on the internet, but it sounds
like a book I would like to read!  About the only thing I can find about
it right now is this:

Scotty Bowers never acted in a single movie. But his story may cast a new light on old Hollywood by revealing the hidden love lives of stars like Cary Grant, Spencer Tracy, and Rita Hayworth—all of whom Bowers claims as paramours from his heyday trading sex for money.

Literary agent David Kuhn confirms exclusively to EW that Grove/Atlantic president Morgan Entrekin has bought the rights to Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars, Bowers’ memoir of his years spent as a bartender, confidante, and gigolo to a laundry list of showbiz icons. A GI who moved to Hollywood after World War II, Bowers describes how he and friends serviced actors and actresses on leave from nearby studios—using an LA gas station as their base. He says he later became an in-demand bartender who developed intimate friendships with stars like Katharine Hepburn, Montgomery Clift, and Rock Hudson, among others. Now 88 and living in L.A. with his wife of 27 years, Bowers agreed to tell his stories now that most of the celebrities he claims were friends and clients have gone.

“The book is a window onto the shadow lives of all these people who entertained us and made popular culture, but who in many ways weren’t what they appeared to be,” says Kuhn. “Scotty helped them to fulfill the desires that they couldn’t fulfill themselves.”

Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars is set for release on Feb. 14, 2012.

[Lyle (Mooska)]

Spencer Tracy?  !

[Lyle (Mooska)]

This is an older article, but it has a SCOTTY BOWERS connection--highlighted in BLUE:
(I put some of the whole thing here because it is interesting anyway!)

[b[Oscar trophies, lost and found[/b]
Statues have surfaced in unusual places
By Iain Blair

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117980476?refcatid=2798

As a longtime member of the Hollywood community, Oscar likes to present a golden, untarnished image to the world. But the truth is, while he's usually found in his native habitat, gracing the mantelpieces of cinema's elite, he's also turned up in some pretty wild places, from pawnshops to trash bins, through no fault of his own.

Naturally, the Academy frowns upon such unbecoming behavior. "The Oscar statuette is obviously the film industry's highest honor, and as such, the Academy has an obligation to protect its standing," asserts Ric Robertson, exec administrator at the Academy. "Over the years, we've developed policies to prevent the Oscar turning into an item of commerce or just another piece of movie memorabilia, and we try to keep it as pure as possible and ensure that the only way you can get one is to win one."

The one exception? "It's perfectly acceptable for a winner to bequeath an Oscar to any family member or friend," he says.

Since 1950, the Academy has had "The Winner's Agreement," a binding legal document which essentially restricts all winners -- or their heirs -- from being able to sell their statues. "We still see Oscars come up for auction, but they're generally pre-1950," says Robertson.

And while the Academy has no legal right to repossess those early trophies, it strongly opposes such practices. What follows are some of the strangest places Oscar has ever found himself.


Going once ...

When Clark Gable's best actor Oscar for 1934's "It Happened One Night" came up for auction in 1996, it was scooped up for $607,500 by an anonymous bidder, who turned out to be Steven Spielberg. The director promptly donated it to the Academy.


Extended loan

Set decorator F. Keogh Gleason worked at MGM for 40 years and won four Oscars. In the '80s, three of those awards (for "An American in Paris," "Gigi" and "Somebody Up There Likes Me") eventually ended up at a West Hollywood pawnshop called Elliott Salter Gives Instant Loans. "His son Pat brought them in as he needed cash in a hurry, so I gave him a sizable loan," Salter recalls. "A lot of people were very interested in them, but he eventually came back and redeemed them."


Acceptance breach

Alice Brady won a supporting actress Oscar for "In Old Chicago" in 1938, but was too ill to attend the ceremony. When her name was announced, a man jumped up onstage and accepted on her behalf. Unfortunately, Brady didn't know the stranger and her Oscar was never seen again. She was gone of cancer before a replacement could be issued.


Golden oldie

Isaac Hayes' Oscar for "Shaft" sits in the entrance to his Memphis restaurant, "Music, Food and Passion."


Belongs in a museum

Shelley Winters bequeathed her '59 Oscar (awarded for her supporting turn in "The Diary of Anne Frank") to the Anne Frank House museum in Amsterdam.


Disappearing act

Whoopi Goldberg's supporting actress Oscar for "Ghost" disappeared after it was sent out for cleaning by the Academy to R.S. Owens of Chicago, the company that makes the statues. "She was extremely nervous about letting it out of her sight, but finally relented," reports the Academy's Steve Miessner. "We never, ever have problems with shipping, but UPS told us it got lost. Whoopi was pretty upset." The lost statue was found in a trash bin at the Ontario, Calif., airport by a security guard and returned to the star, who dropped plans to ever have it cleaned. "Oscar will never leave my house again," she said.


Small-time crook

Child stars Shirley Temple and Margaret O'Brien (right) were both given mini-Oscars for "Outstanding Child Actress," but O'Brien's 1944 statue was reported stolen -- allegedly by the maid -- in 1954, so the Acad replaced it with a full-size one. The original turned up almost 40 years later at a Pasadena City College swap meet and was returned to O'Brien.


Lost in the move

William Hurt's best actor Oscar for 1985's "Kiss of the Spider Woman" was reported stolen in 2006 when the star was moving homes. "The police found it in a ditch by the side of the road, and it was pretty badly damaged," says Miessner. "We're happy to replace it, but he has yet to follow up."


The shootist

When acclaimed Spanish d.p. Nestor Almendros was nominated for "Days of Heaven," he nearly missed the ceremony. "He didn't even want to go," recalls close friend Scotty Bowers. "He felt the other films and d.p.s stood a much better chance of winning. But I put him in my car, drove him to the show, and we barely got in -- they were closing the doors." Almendros won and, forever grateful to his friend, bequeathed his Oscar to Bowers before he succumbed to AIDS in 1992. "It arrived in the mail, and now I keep it at home," adds Bowers, a caterer. "Sometimes I loan it out for a party or show."

[bubba]

http://www.toofab.com/2011/06/27/katharine-hepburn-former-home-up-for-sale/


Any Katherine Hepburn fans?

[andy]

These recent posts regarding Hollywood of days gone by is very interesting to me. Is there a book out there that does a decent expose of real life behind closed doors but without any 'outings'? I'm especially interested in life for gay movie stars of the 40s and 50s as I'm writing a slash story set in this fascinating world. The Scotty Bowers book will more than likely break all records... unless they manage to quash it somehow.

[Lyle (Mooska)]

Andy, I mentioned this book coming out to a friend on the phone last night and
he told me that an acquaintance of our knows this guy--Scotty Bowers and has talked
to him before!

I can recommend a few books that I've read.

"The Man Who INvented Rock Hudson," by Robert Hofler
     It's about the gay agent Henry Willson and his stable of stars he represented
     from the 30's through the 70's. I like this one because it has a wide variety of
     people in it.

"Tab Hunter Confidential," by Tab Hunter with Eddie Muller
     Obviously centered on Tab Hunter and his life.  I hear it is being
     made into a documentary film.

"Angels & Demons," by Ray Stricklyn
     Ray was an actor and worked in New York and then Hollywood in the 1950's
     and beyond.

"Under the Rainbow: An Intimate Memoir of Judy Garland, Rock Hudson and
My Life in Old Hollywood," by John Carlyle, Foreward by Robert Osborne
     This one I haven't gotten yet, but it's about a handsome guy who comes to Hollywood
     and wants to get into the business and is also fascinated by the Hollywood stars.   I did
     read the foreward someplace and Robert Osborne has said that John Carlyle had a small
     part in A Star is Born and went to the premiere to see that he was cut out of it and that
     experience he never seemed to have gotten over.

 

[andy]

Thanks Lyle.

[bubba]

http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20506809,00.html


Johnathen Rhys Meyers.

[bubba]

Most babies have their first play date at a park or a friend's house.

But then seven-month-old Zachary is different to most little ones.

When you have Elton John and David Furnish as parents, that's to be expected.



The showbiz couple were introducing their little lad to St Tropez this week. ....



http://www.hellomagazine.com/celebrities/201108055888/elton-john-zachary-st-tropez-celebs-on-holiday/

And they were joined by How I Met Your Mother actor Neil Patrick Harris and his partner David Burthka and their baby twins.

[Jer009]

Usually insect deaths are not this beautifully dramatic, but the Gustavo Santaolalla soundtrack gives it some emotional heft.

Writes videographer Paul Kroeker: "The last moments of a Dragonfly's life captured on film. I did not hold this insect captive, it was just laying like this on my deck."

http://boxheit.com/2011/08/12/poignant-short-film-about-the-death-of-a-dragonfly/