Photo: Patrick McMullan
Woody Allen’s new film Cassandra’s Dream is about a pair of brothers who do something dreadful and are plagued with guilt. So naturally, we asked guests at the Cinema Society’s celeb-studded screening of the flick on Tuesday what was the worst thing they’d done for money. Colin Farrell admitted that he once line-danced, and Rosie Perez said she did an ABC movie, but our favorite answer was Carson Kressley’s. Because it was so, well, not fake. “When I was a young struggling stylist, I had a credit card that my parents would help me pay for, and when I would run out of money for food, I would go to Bloomingdale’s and buy something and I’d put it on my charge card and I’d ask for a gift box,” the former Queer Eye style guru told us. “And then I would take it back to Bloomingdale’s and say I’d received it as a present. Then I would ask for the money back, and if they wouldn’t do that, I would buy popcorn or Mrs. Prindable’s Apples or whatever food they sold at Bloomingdale’s, and that way I could eat. But now they have much stricter return policies, it totally doesn’t work.” We’ve never tried this tactic, but we did run out of money during college and use our parents’ credit card to pay for group dinners so our friends would give us cash. So we really feel him on this one. —Fiona Byrne
