Ep. 238 – Sapphire Cove Summer Does Scotty

As Sapphire Cove Summer, their celebration of Christopher’s steamy new gay romance novel continues, Christopher and Eric serve up a controversial slice of sexy Hollywood history. In SCOTTY AND THE SECRET HISTORY OF HOLLYWOOD, documentary filmmaker Matt Tyrnauer deftly explores the relentlessly cheerful Scotty Bowers, Tinseltown’s most famous male escort. The former sex worker’s tell all memoir blew open closet doors and shocked readers upon its release a few years ago, but it was Scotty’s frank and unashamed accounting of his wild sex life that left an indelible impression on Christopher, who made him the basis for one of his new novel’s central characters. But is there a darker side to Scotty’s story that the man himself isn’t hearing? It’s all on the table in this wide-ranging discussion of sex, secrets and celebrity.