These recollections of Scotties are sensational as they include a list of the great and the good of Hollywood of that period and provide so much in widening our understanding of how that strange place works: it is stunning how this underworld went on without a blip on the radar. Instead I would flip the pages with wide eyes and think, "This satire on Tinseltown memoirs is hi-LAR-ious! It doesn't seem that he had actual affairs with most of these people; it seems the ones he had the longest 'relationships' with were quite less famous. Scotty Bowers made his reputation by sleeping with everyone in Hollywood who wasn't actually Lassie, and now he tells all.

He began sleeping with some himself, and connecting others with his coterie of young, attractive, and sexually free-spirited friends. This book was for me, first and foremost, a tale of a male who was overly sexual his entire life due to abuse in his childhood and yet still felt like the luckiest man alive to have shared intimacy (not love though) with hundreds if not thousands of partners.Sexually promiscuous yet able to compartmentalize his life, Scotty has a wife and child at home, but spends days, even weeks away from home, working as a bartender for friends’ parties, setting up tricks, and tricking himself. Scotty provided them with a house and an education for his daughter, and feels that “if the romance went out of our relationship, well, that just happens with people sometimes. Full Service opens the doors of the closeted, X-rated underworld of old Hollywood through three decades.

Bowers' illicit activities were never detected by the authorities; he kept all his contact information in his head. Bowers' general take on tragedy seems to be that, since tragedy and hardship are real drawbacks to life - life is to be enjoyed whenever and however possible. Chief among them is the gnawing question about the book's veracity — especially given the fact that virtually all of the people he mentions in the book are long gone and unable to refute his account. SPOILER ALERT: This review from here on in will discuss some of the racier and more graphic sections of Scotty's storied life.He gets offered jobs and invitations to places few of even the innermost circles would ever get, all within minutes of meeting him.