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ByTim Murphy
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Carson Kressley Was Working It Even Before ‘Queer Eye’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
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Rosie Perez Loves John Travolta, the Gays*Rosie Perez is chill when it comes to being around the tons of buff, nearly naked men in the current Roundabout Theatre revival of the 1975 gay-bathhouse farce The Ritz, which she stars in as a talentless singer. “At first it was a little shocking, but now I see them naked backstage and I go, ‘Move, excuse me,’” she said last night after the opening. Does the 43-year-old Perez, a native New Yorker, have any memories of Gotham in the seventies? “I remember the blackout in ‘77 and going to see Saturday Night Fever three times and screaming for John Travolta,” she recalls. “And there were a lot of drugs and drug addicts and craziness and sex,” she adds. “It was fabulous.” Hmm. So, has she ever been to a real bathhouse? “Not a bathhouse bathhouse,” she says, “but I did go to a fabulous place on 46th Street called Osaka. You wet-steam, dry-steam, then a 300-pound woman walks on your back. It’s great.” —Tim Murphy
* No, we didn’t write it like that ‘cause we think they’re the same thing. Rumormongers!
Related: Kevin Chamberlin of ‘The Ritz’ Discusses Beefy, Naked Guys [Vulture]
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Kevin Chamberlin of ‘The Ritz’ Discusses Beefy, Naked GuysNaturally, Vulture is pretty excited about the Broadway revival of The Ritz, the story of a family man from Ohio who accidentally takes refuge in a gay bathhouse circa 1970 while on the run from his homicidal brother-in-law.
