Page 1 Roundup (10/15)

The Daily News: NBC News president slams Ronan Farrow, denies company tried to cover up rape allegation against Matt Lauer

Daughter of convicted killer who was executed in 2006 asks judge to order DNA testing

Instagram: Hottest body yet?

NPR: Former Fort Worth officer charged with murder in fatal shooting of woman in her home

And at the risk of virtue signaling, can we just talk about how disgusting it is that the police there released photos of a firearm found in the victim's home -- you know, to “defend” herself -- a reminder that gun nuts' precious Second Amendment only applies to white people.

Mother Jones: Imagine a conference full of conspiracy theorists. sponsored by a prison company ... at a Trump resort. (Yes, Don Jr. will be there.)

Boy Culture: Scotty Bowers, "pimp to the stars," dies at 96

Greg in Hollywood: High school memories came flooding back to Adam Lambert as he sang “Believe” for Cher at Kennedy Center Honors

Foreign Affairs: There may never have been an attack on diplomacy as damaging, to both the State Department as an institution and U.S. international influence, as the one underway today.

The Guardian: U.S. nuclear bombs at Turkish airbase complicate rift over Syria invasion as Putin about to get yet another gift from Trump -- a million bucks says Donald has no idea what the Cuban Missile Crisis was

Bantam: What exactly is going on here?

St. Martin's Press: Augusten Burroughs comes out as a witch

New York Post: Estranged wife of indicted Giuliani associate living the high life in Miami

Veteran gets groundbreaking penis transplant after losing his in Afghanistan blast

Page Six: Louis C.K. still trying to make a comeback with added tour dates

GQ: Looks like I'm not the only one who thinks a man -- "genderqueer" or otherwise -- should just be any kind of man he wants

The Washington Post: Giuliani ran a ‘shadow’ foreign policy in Ukraine to personally benefit Trump, ex-Russia adviser tells impeachment investigators

Michael McKinley, former senior adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, to testify Wednesday; Democrats mull whether to question John Bolton

The New York Times: Is this the real reason even a kook like Bolton couldn't fit in with the Trump administration?

Analysis: Trump caved in to Erdogan's requests and calamity soon followed

In New York, where the first cases of AIDS were reported in 1981, fewer than 2,500 new cases were reported in 2018, the lowest in many years.

The Wall Street Journal: Grazing tables are suddenly everywhere -- and nobody knows how to use them

HGTV's "Property Brothers," Drew and Jonathan Scott, are getting their own lifestyle magazine

Remains of the Day (07/16)

Boy Culture: Win a "Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood" prize pack

Dlisted: Closet Republican Elon Musk called a Thai cave rescuer a pedophile

Towleroad: Trump supporters pickets neighbor's house: "A gay Asian with AIDS who hates American lives here"

The New York Times: He preyed on men who wanted to be priests -- then he became a cardinal

The Hill: Trump, at Putin’s side, questions U.S. intelligence on 2016 election

NBCNews: Obama visits Kenya, launches youth center founded by half sister

Decider: Don't miss the wonderful documentary on Hulu about the Slits, the original all-female punk band

AmericaBlog: Randy Rainbow takes on the "very stable genius"

Baseline: Lots of fun photos from the Wimbledon Champions Ball

Back2Stonewall: Princes Charles and William both refused to meet Donald Trump

Daily Intel: White House is reportedly pursuing direct talks with Taliban

Deep Dish: He's what I call a bear essential

Gothamist: Watch as Sascha Baron Cohen gets congressman to endorse arming 4-year-olds with guns

Gr8er Days: Roger Perry, TV veteran and husband of Joyce Bulifant, dies at 85

Matthew's Island of Misfit Toys: The temperature is right for one of these Speedo-clad pool boys

JoeMyGod: CVS fires homocon for calling 911 on black woman over coupon, Log Cabin terminates state chapter

NewNowNext: Original "Boys in the Band" star Laurence Luckinbill tells Michael Musto: "The new show has something we didn't have"

OMG Blog: YouTuber DaveyWavey has one hot ass

The WoW Report: Don't Miss Nora Burns's "New York Stories: Hot Child in the City Edition" tonight at the Stonewall Inn

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Scotty Bowers Gives 'Full Service'

At long last, the infamous sex-arranger to the stars is the subject of a new documentary. Details HERE.

“The hypocrisy of Hollywood is significant. Think of how many gay young men in that period might have said to themselves, ‘If only I could be as beautiful as Cary Grant and if only I could be as straight as Cary Grant, wouldn’t my life be better?’” -- Matt Tynauer, the film's director.

The Mysteries of Gay Sex

Story HERE.

This spit-take worthy lede -- some people pay MEN for sex? you're kidding! -- reminded me of my former colleague at The New York Times named Lynn, who got Scotty Bowers' "Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars" before I did, so read it and gave me the LynnsNotes version of the book. Her takeaway 

That 75 percent of was probably accurate, but a couple things jumped out at her as not ringing true. For one, she didn't believe that Bowers procured literally hundreds of women for Katharine Hepburn, whose description sounded like a stereotypical gay man to Lynn. She also had some disbelief about Prince Edward (gay or bi) and Wallis Simpson. But the thing that she just KNEW was not true -- and nearly discredited Bowers entirely -- was that he claimed men used to pay good money to BLOW other men. (!) We set her, um, straight.