Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood

- Well, apparently, it didn't matter to you. 738 00:33:20,427 --> 00:33:22,263 It might have mattered to me. 739 00:33:25,332 --> 00:33:28,101 (birds chirping) 740 00:33:29,869 --> 00:33:33,174 (slow soft music) 741 00:33:33,207 --> 00:33:35,808 - Yeah, you know, the god-dammed toilet. 742 00:33:35,842 --> 00:33:37,010 I didn't get it right away. 743 00:33:37,043 --> 00:33:39,913 I got so much yesterday, yesterday afternoon. 744 00:33:39,946 --> 00:33:40,847 And, and... 745 00:33:43,116 --> 00:33:46,152 You never know when you're gonna need it, baby. (laughs) 746 00:33:48,255 --> 00:33:51,192 I used to take care of Beach's houses. 747 00:33:51,225 --> 00:33:54,461 Beach Dickerson owned about 18 or 19 houses up here. 748 00:33:54,495 --> 00:33:55,828 And I maintained them. 749 00:33:55,862 --> 00:33:56,930 I did all the plumbing in all of them. 750 00:33:56,963 --> 00:33:59,266 I mean, see, see Beach could count on me to do it, 751 00:33:59,300 --> 00:34:00,833 and do it right. 752 00:34:02,101 --> 00:34:04,271 Originally, Beach met me at the gas station, 753 00:34:04,305 --> 00:34:05,905 then we became friends. 754 00:34:08,209 --> 00:34:10,877 This was his house and he lived here all those years. 755 00:34:12,246 --> 00:34:17,218 Beach was originally from Glennville, Georgia, 756 00:34:18,319 --> 00:34:20,221 went in the Army, ended up in California, 757 00:34:20,254 --> 00:34:22,189 and stayed here, and became kind of 758 00:34:22,223 --> 00:34:23,957 what you call a half-assed actor. 759 00:34:23,990 --> 00:34:25,459 I still get checks. 760 00:34:25,492 --> 00:34:29,296 $1.80, $2.25 for little things he was in. 761 00:34:29,330 --> 00:34:30,830 You know what I mean? 762 00:34:30,863 --> 00:34:33,967 - [Announcer] The Creature From the Haunted Sea! 763 00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:38,305 (dramatic theatrical music) 764 00:34:38,339 --> 00:34:40,274 - [Scotty] Oh, they were class C movies 765 00:34:40,307 --> 00:34:42,209 by Roger Corman many years ago: 766 00:34:42,243 --> 00:34:44,010 The Attack of the Crab Monster 767 00:34:44,043 --> 00:34:46,145 and Creatures of the Haunted Sea. 768 00:34:47,348 --> 00:34:49,483 (soft orchestral music) 769 00:34:49,516 --> 00:34:54,488 Beach was my steady number-one person that I would see. 770 00:34:56,523 --> 00:34:59,260 Oh, that's Lois's, the Columbia University, 771 00:34:59,293 --> 00:35:01,094 City of New York, Lois Broad. 772 00:35:02,196 --> 00:35:04,897 (soft orchestral music) 773 00:35:04,931 --> 00:35:07,534 Beach owned about eight, eight thoroughbred horses. 774 00:35:08,868 --> 00:35:10,504 And the only horse he ever had that won, 775 00:35:10,537 --> 00:35:13,039 he named the horse Hollywood Scott. 776 00:35:13,072 --> 00:35:15,875 And that was the only horse he ever had that won a race. 777 00:35:17,211 --> 00:35:21,248 - Beach Dickerson owned a house up where I'd walk my dogs. 778 00:35:21,282 --> 00:35:22,949 I said, "I understand, you know, 779 00:35:22,982 --> 00:35:25,219 "we have a mutual friend, Scotty Bower." 780 00:35:25,252 --> 00:35:26,353 He said, "Yeah." 781 00:35:26,387 --> 00:35:28,355 He said, "Scotty's my lover." 782 00:35:28,389 --> 00:35:30,056 I said, "Well, that's news to me. 783 00:35:30,089 --> 00:35:33,960 "I didn't know Scotty had a, a gay lover up here." 784 00:35:33,993 --> 00:35:36,896 And he said, "Oh, yeah." (laughs) 785 00:35:36,929 --> 00:35:39,999 - [Scotty] Here's Jennifer Aniston. 786 00:35:40,033 --> 00:35:41,535 Here's Beach. 787 00:35:41,568 --> 00:35:43,370 Every one of these girls are actresses, 788 00:35:43,404 --> 00:35:44,804 and they all lived here. 789 00:35:45,972 --> 00:35:47,408 And this was taken out on the patio there. 790 00:35:47,441 --> 00:35:50,277 Elvis Presley and a girl they were, 791 00:35:50,311 --> 00:35:52,111 when he worked on a show with Elvis. 792 00:35:54,181 --> 00:35:56,216 There's Beach and Corbin Bernsen. 793 00:35:56,250 --> 00:35:58,252 - [Jack] He was Beach's godson. 794 00:35:58,285 --> 00:36:00,487 He was on LA Law and a few things. 795 00:36:02,021 --> 00:36:04,891 - Beach left me two annuities, 796 00:36:04,924 --> 00:36:07,394 plus $300,000, plus two houses, 797 00:36:07,428 --> 00:36:08,995 which was quite nice. 798 00:36:11,064 --> 00:36:13,167 He left me this house, another house 799 00:36:13,200 --> 00:36:16,270 around the corner down there to sell. 800 00:36:17,471 --> 00:36:18,871 And the house that he left me, 801 00:36:18,905 --> 00:36:20,940 I sold for a little bit over $600,000. 802 00:36:22,409 --> 00:36:25,446 The will was made out that I have this house until I die. 803 00:36:25,479 --> 00:36:28,649 Then when I die, and I, I've gotta be really dead, 804 00:36:28,682 --> 00:36:32,018 then, and may not happen, then fuckin' Corbin gets it. 805 00:36:32,051 --> 00:36:34,087 See? (laughs) 806 00:36:35,656 --> 00:36:36,956 Corbin, when Beach died, 807 00:36:36,989 --> 00:36:38,258 Corbin was gonna rent a yacht 808 00:36:38,292 --> 00:36:41,094 and spread the ashes at sea and