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Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood director Matt Tyrnauer spent years documenting pimp to the stars Scotty Bowers, now Bowers, a Marine, settled in post-World War II Los Angeles and led a double life as a gas station attendant by day and a Hollywood fixer by night, indulging in sexual liaisons and arranging &#;dates&#; for some of the biggest stars of the day, including Rock Hudson, Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. Tyrnauer says Secret History, which is seeking distribution and premieres Sept. 9 at TIFF, examines why Bowers&#; story is more than lurid sex gossip and what it reveals about the evolution of Hollywood.

This film is a counternarrative of Hollywood. Scotty was the major sex worker in Los Angeles in the post-World War II period. He knew these movie stars, and he kept their secrets at the time because it was necessary: Due to the morals clauses in their contracts, exposure would have ended their careers. He facilitated their pleasure.

The studios were committed to a heterosexual, white-picket-fence vision of American life. It was a big lie. So the narrative takes this post-World War II period, which is oversimplified — now seen as this Turner Classic Movies genre, a compilation of oldies and greatest hits — and humanizes it.

There are a lot of sex stories about celebrities in the film, but it&#;s not a tell-all in the sense that it&#;s not a film that turns on gossip. It&#;s a cinema verite project about the evolution of sexuality, particularly homosexuality, told through this firsthand account.

As many stories as we share — I knew from the beginning we would have Cary Grant and Tracy and Hepburn in it — there are so many that didn&#;t make it. How Scotty facilitated women for DesiArnaz. His own assignation with Alan Ladd.

Sex stories only get you so far. A little goes a long way. I aim to have minute films; films that don&#;t bore people.

Stroll the streets surrounding Grand Central Station in Midtown Manhattan and you can’t miss the Vanderbilt name. It adorns street signs, building facades and a hall inside Grand Central, which was built during the 19 and early 20 century by &#;Commodore&#; Cornelius Vanderbilt and his grandson William Kissam Vanderbilt.

It is here, in a pricey Italian restaurant, that a flesh-and-blood Vanderbilt sips her bellini and chats about her famous cousins — the late fashion designer Gloria Vanderbilt and her son, CNN anchor Anderson Cooper.

“Anderson is my cousin; I met him twice and I thought he had a mesmerizing presence,” Consuelo Vanderbilt, seven generations descended from Cornelius Vanderbilt, told The Post.

“I have not read his book [&#;Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty&#;], but I heard him being interviewed in August and I think he needs to do more research. It sounded like there were elements he didn&#;t know about members of the family.”

As for Cooper&#;s mother, Vanderbilt said, “Gloria was ostracized from the family due to reasons I don’t know. I heard it as a child and she has been public and vocal about it. She said it before she died. I never met Gloria.&#;

&#;From my understanding, Anderson talked about areas of the family that he does not know about &#; Was he inaccurate about saying there is no money in the family? Yes, that is inaccurate. Does he need to do more research on the matter? Yes. That is true.”

Vanderbilt’s publicist pipes in here: “The word in society is that Anderson wants to let the name Vanderbilt die with his mother as the last working Vanderbilt &#; He does not have Vanderbilt in his name. And he uses his mother’s name all the time, like when he executive produced his documentary [&#;Nothing Left Unsaid: Gloria Vanderbilt & Anderson Cooper,&#; which tells the story of the mother and

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