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That horrible woman how dare she bribe someone to get her daughter into a good college. Fucking criminal
william macy, felicity huffman 50 other actors CEO's execs arrested this morning college admission
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That horrible woman how dare she bribe someone to get her daughter into a good college. Fucking criminal
John Stamos defends Lori Loughlin post–college admissions scandal
John Stamos has defended his 'Full House' TV wife, Lori Loughlin, following her college admissions scandal: 'She wasn't really the architect of any of it.'
Well he took his sweet time to say something.
Felicity Huffman breaks silence on Varsity Blues scandal
In her first public remarks outside of the courtroom, Huffman tells ABC that she thought it was 'a joke' when FBI agents turned up at her mansion to arrest her.
Felicity Huffman Breaks Silence on College Admissions Scandal: ‘I Felt Like I Had to Give My Daughter a Future’
Felicity Huffman is opening up for the first time about her role the headline-making college admissions scandal, telling ABC-7 Eyewitness News in an interview aired Thursday that she felt she had to participate in the scheme to "give her daughter a future."
Felicity Huffman Says FBI Raided Her House After College Admissions Scandal: ‘They Woke My Daughters Up at Gunpoint’
Felicity Huffman is speaking out for the first time about her role in the high-profile college admissions scandal Operation Varsity Blues.
variety.com
Felicity Huffman reflects on her guilt from college admission scandal, applauds women's rehab organization
Felicity Huffman spoke to Los Angeles ABC station KABC in an exclusive interview about her role in the college admission scandal.
David Mamet Enters The College Admissions Scandal Drama To Defend William H. Macy, Felicity Huffman
By Jordan Crucchiola@jorcru
Photo: Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images
In a plot move torn straight from the script pages of a Freeform drama, Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin were among more than 40 people charged today in a massive scam to manipulate the college admissions system. Suspects paid anywhere from a few thousand dollars to upwards of $6 million to get their kids into elite colleges by faking test scores, paying off SAT and ACT administrators, lying about sports records, and even making up physical descriptions of some kids to present them as more viable collegiate athletes. (One boy who is 5’5” was listed as 6’1” in profiles sent to basketball coaches, others had their faces photoshopped into images of strangers playing sports.) It’s a bizarre scandal, and playwright David Mamet, for one, will not stand by as his dear friends Huffman and her husband William H. Macy have their names dragged through the social media mud. Huffman was arrested today and subsequently posted bail, but Mamet would like us all to just sweep this whole messy business under the rug.
In a letter sent to The Hollywood Reporter, Mamet wrote, “I worked for very many years in and around our Elite Universities. I am able to report that their admissions policies are an unfortunate and corrupt joke.” He then called out the legal yet shady practice of purchasing admission into a school by giving money to a college for construction projects (you can never have too many fountains!) before making his direct defense of Macy and Huffman.
I’m crazy about them both.
That a parent’s zeal for her children’s future may have overcome her better judgment for a moment is not only unfortunate, it is, I know we parents would agree, a universal phenomenon.
If ever there were a use for the Texas Verdict, this is it. For the uninitiated, the Texas Verdict is: “Not Guilty, but Don’t do it Again.”
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Whether or not this was a momentary laps in judgment on the part of the Huffman-Macy household or a prolonged campaign of manipulation is a distinction that matters not to Mamet, apparently. But this drama needs even more characters so hopefully Loughlin and Huffman have more friends in the mood to write letters. May the fires of this scandal continue to burn bright.
David Mamet slams Hollywood’s ‘garbage’ DEI initiatives. ‘It’s fascist totalitarianism’
At the L.A. Times Festival of Books, playwright and filmmaker David Mamet blames age, not his conservative politics or inflammatory statements, for his fall from grace.
By Jireh DengStaff WriterApril 21, 2024 8:07 PM PT
David Mamet is not done lambasting the liberal establishment in Hollywood.
“DEI is garbage,” said the Pulitzer Prize-winning author to a packed house at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. “It’s fascist totalitarianism.”
The playwright and director did not shy away from his trademark expletives or controversy as he spoke about his tell-all memoir, “Everywhere an Oink Oink,” with Times deputy entertainment editor Matt Brennan at USC’s Newman Recital Hall.
His book, published in the fall, details his last 40 years in the moviemaking business and falling out of grace as his politics shifted him from a progressive “red diaper baby” of two communist Jewish parents raised on the South Side of Chicago to a present-day Trump-loving conservative.
For more than a decade, Mamet’s political and social statements have made as many headlines as his film and theater work. His latest gripe is with the new diversity rules that the Academy of Motion Pictures instituted for Oscar-eligible films to help advance the representation of LGBTQ+, women, ethnic minorities and disabled people.
The idea that “I can’t give you a stupid f— statue unless you have 7% of this, 8% of that ... it’s intrusive,” Mamet said.
Although Mamet acknowledged that discrimination barred groups from participating in Hollywood for years, he thinks the pendulum has swung too far in the opposite direction. In his book, Mamet describes the leaders of these diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives as “diversity capos and “diversity commissars.”
“The [film industry] has little business improving everybody’s racial understanding as does the fire department,” Mamet said to a few loud laughs in the crowd. He argued that his colleagues are better off selling popcorn than trying to improve representation for women, queer talent and other marginalized groups.
Mamet did not mince his words. He used the outdated term “transsexuals” when talking about transgender people and railed against gender-neutral bathrooms. “It politicizes the human excretory function,” he said to even louder guffaws in the crowd.
He proudly claimed his defense of free speech in an amicus brief he wrote to the Supreme Court this year in NetChoice LLC vs. Paxton. “We see great attacks on freedom of speech in this country,” Mamet said.
Film executives and writers were not safe from Mamet’s critiques either. He blamed film studios for the “hegemony” that’s smothered the voices of independent filmmakers. “There’s no room for individual initiative,” Mamet said. He added that the film industry is experiencing the “growth, maturity, decay and death” that “happens to everything that’s organic.”
Back in 2007, Mamet was a vocal opponent of the writers’ strike and complained last year when writers reached an impasse with studios as they bargained for pay raises and protections against the use of artificial intelligence.
“There’ll be less work,” Mamet conceded. “But the scripts will be better.”
Does Mamet think of his children as nepo babies who’ve benefited from his illustrious career? Not at all, he said. He feels gratified that they’ve learned from being on set with him.
“They earned it by merit,” he said of daughter Zosia Mamet, who starred in “Girls.” They haven’t benefited from any type of privilege, he said, and he thinks that DEI initiatives are taking away hard-earned opportunities. “Nobody ever gave my kids a job because of who they were related to.”
Mamet said he’s been pushed out of Hollywood less by his politics than by his age. Young directors want to work with friends of their own generation.
“Nobody’s going to pay me a lot of money anymore,” Mamet said. “Nobody’s going to let me have a lot of fun.”
David Mamet slams Hollywood's 'garbage' DEI initiatives. 'It’s fascist totalitarianism'
At the L.A. Times Festival of Books, playwright and filmmaker David Mamet blames age, not his conservative politics or inflammatory statements, for his fall from grace.
www.latimes.com
David Mamet Calls Hollywood’s Diversity Efforts “Fascist Totalitarianism”
The Pulitzer Prize-winning screenwriter and provocateur criticized diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives as "garbage" at an LA Times book festival event on Sunday.
David Mamet Calls Hollywood’s Diversity Efforts “Fascist Totalitarianism”
The Pulitzer Prize-winning screenwriter and provocateur criticized diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives as "garbage" at an LA Times book festival event on Sunday.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
Gotdamn, that is one whiny ass CAC.
David Mamet slams Hollywood’s ‘garbage’ DEI initiatives. ‘It’s fascist totalitarianism’
At the L.A. Times Festival of Books, playwright and filmmaker David Mamet blames age, not his conservative politics or inflammatory statements, for his fall from grace.
By Jireh DengStaff Writer
April 21, 2024 8:07 PM PT
David Mamet is not done lambasting the liberal establishment in Hollywood.
“DEI is garbage,” said the Pulitzer Prize-winning author to a packed house at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. “It’s fascist totalitarianism.”
The playwright and director did not shy away from his trademark expletives or controversy as he spoke about his tell-all memoir, “Everywhere an Oink Oink,” with Times deputy entertainment editor Matt Brennan at USC’s Newman Recital Hall.
His book, published in the fall, details his last 40 years in the moviemaking business and falling out of grace as his politics shifted him from a progressive “red diaper baby” of two communist Jewish parents raised on the South Side of Chicago to a present-day Trump-loving conservative.
For more than a decade, Mamet’s political and social statements have made as many headlines as his film and theater work. His latest gripe is with the new diversity rules that the Academy of Motion Pictures instituted for Oscar-eligible films to help advance the representation of LGBTQ+, women, ethnic minorities and disabled people.
The idea that “I can’t give you a stupid f— statue unless you have 7% of this, 8% of that ... it’s intrusive,” Mamet said.
Although Mamet acknowledged that discrimination barred groups from participating in Hollywood for years, he thinks the pendulum has swung too far in the opposite direction. In his book, Mamet describes the leaders of these diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives as “diversity capos and “diversity commissars.”
“The [film industry] has little business improving everybody’s racial understanding as does the fire department,” Mamet said to a few loud laughs in the crowd. He argued that his colleagues are better off selling popcorn than trying to improve representation for women, queer talent and other marginalized groups.
Mamet did not mince his words. He used the outdated term “transsexuals” when talking about transgender people and railed against gender-neutral bathrooms. “It politicizes the human excretory function,” he said to even louder guffaws in the crowd.
He proudly claimed his defense of free speech in an amicus brief he wrote to the Supreme Court this year in NetChoice LLC vs. Paxton. “We see great attacks on freedom of speech in this country,” Mamet said.
Film executives and writers were not safe from Mamet’s critiques either. He blamed film studios for the “hegemony” that’s smothered the voices of independent filmmakers. “There’s no room for individual initiative,” Mamet said. He added that the film industry is experiencing the “growth, maturity, decay and death” that “happens to everything that’s organic.”
Back in 2007, Mamet was a vocal opponent of the writers’ strike and complained last year when writers reached an impasse with studios as they bargained for pay raises and protections against the use of artificial intelligence.
“There’ll be less work,” Mamet conceded. “But the scripts will be better.”
Does Mamet think of his children as nepo babies who’ve benefited from his illustrious career? Not at all, he said. He feels gratified that they’ve learned from being on set with him.
“They earned it by merit,” he said of daughter Zosia Mamet, who starred in “Girls.” They haven’t benefited from any type of privilege, he said, and he thinks that DEI initiatives are taking away hard-earned opportunities. “Nobody ever gave my kids a job because of who they were related to.”
Mamet said he’s been pushed out of Hollywood less by his politics than by his age. Young directors want to work with friends of their own generation.
“Nobody’s going to pay me a lot of money anymore,” Mamet said. “Nobody’s going to let me have a lot of fun.”
David Mamet slams Hollywood's 'garbage' DEI initiatives. 'It’s fascist totalitarianism'
At the L.A. Times Festival of Books, playwright and filmmaker David Mamet blames age, not his conservative politics or inflammatory statements, for his fall from grace.
David Mamet Calls Hollywood’s Diversity Efforts “Fascist Totalitarianism”
The Pulitzer Prize-winning screenwriter and provocateur criticized diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives as "garbage" at an LA Times book festival event on Sunday.
David Mamet Calls Hollywood’s Diversity Efforts “Fascist Totalitarianism”
The Pulitzer Prize-winning screenwriter and provocateur criticized diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives as "garbage" at an LA Times book festival event on Sunday.
Sounds about White of him........
this is a good thing, I'm glad all of these folks are gettin' exposed.
To see the fangs of your enemy is better than seeing the grins of your enemies who you thought were your friends.