Scotty Bowers: Last News

PMC administratorProfessional actors and avocational house-flippers Corbin Bernsen and Amanda Pays have hung a not-quite-$2 million price tag on a quirky compound high above L.A.’s Laurel Canyon.The interestingly idiosyncratic property was long owned by prolific B-movie actor and real estate investor Beach Dickerson. The property was gifted to Corbin upon Dickerson’s 2005 death with the stipulation that author, ubiquitous industry party bartender and beloved pimp-to-the-stars Scotty Bowers, subject of the juicy 2017 documentary “Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood,” retain a lifetime occupancy.

The director behind the Oscar-winning drama Call Me By Your Name and the comedy duo behind Pineapple Express are teaming for an Old Hollywood biopic. Luca Guadagnino will helm from a script by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg a movie about Scotty Bowers, the supposed "male madame" to stars like Rock Hudson, Katherine Hepburn and Bette Davis.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: Searchlight, which last year acquired rights to make a narrative film from the Matt Tyrnauer-directed documentary Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood, has set Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg to write the script and Luca Guadagnino to direct the film.Tyrnauer and his Altimeter Films partner Corey Reeser will be joined as producers by Point Grey Pictures.The film focuses on Scotty Bowers, a World War II Marine combat veteran who fought at the Battle of Iwo Jima and became a legendary bisexual male hustler and date-arranger for gay Hollywood movie stars from the 1940s until the beginning of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s.

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