Film festival guards, enforcing a formal dress code, turned away ladies in rhinestone flats trying to enter a screening of Todd Haynes’s movie Carol, whose lesbian protagonist drew cheers for Cate Blanchett, (she told the press that she herself is a bisexual). Daily News. Larry Gagosian, in “stylish sneakers”, was also barred until Harvey Weinstein lavished his famous charm upon the guards. NY Post. A festival rep told The Independent that dress code rules requiring tuxedos and gowns “have not changed throughout the years.”
[by E.N.]