A Hollywood Tell-All and a Dispute Over Awards News February 1, 2012, 11:46 am We're all about the calendar here at The Carpetbagger. The Academy is sending out the final ballots today, quite possibly the last time snail mail is used now that the organization has decided to shift to electronic voting. And next week, the director and special effects maestro Douglas Trumbull is getting a special Oscar, which should not be taken as a career tribute inasmuch as his career is still continuing, thank you very much. And there are a few other interesting dates to note: Feb. 14: That's when Scotty Bowers's book, "Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars," is released. As the Bagger's colleague Brooks Barnes explains, "Written with Lionel Friedberg, an award-winning producer of documentaries, it is a lurid, no-detail-too-excruciating account of a sexual Zelig who (if you believe him) trawled an X-rated underworld for over three decades without getting caught." Mr. Bowers says he dealt with gay and bisexual A-listers like Cary Grant, George Cukor, Rock Hudson, Vivien Leigh and Katharine Hepburn. "I've kept silent all these years because I didn't want to hurt any of these people," he adds. Read more here. July 9, 2013: That's the proposed trial date for a copyright dispute pitting the owner of Deadline.com against the owner of The Hollywood Reporter. The original lawsuit, filed by Deadline's owner, Penske, involved accusations of stolen Web coding among other charges, but now Penske is weighing whether to add a new claim of misappropriation of news last week. "In other words," writes the Bagger's colleague Michael Cieply, "Penske says The Hollywood Reporter was lifting its stories even as the year's Oscar nominations were being chewed over. Prometheus, parent of The Reporter, says it stands ready to refute any such claim. Stay tuned.