Operation Varsity Blues: Yes, Rick Singer Really Did Try to Pitch a Reality Show
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William Rick Singer, the ringleader of the 2019 college bribery scandal, at one point considered creating a reality TV show. Yup, think a show about the wealthy like
Keeping Up With the Kardashians or
Bling Empire . . . but focused on college admissions. Singer is now the subject of Netflix s
Operation Varsity Blues, which unpacks his role in the college cheating upheaval that implicated the likes of Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman. Besides working with these TV veterans, he briefly appeared interested in show business himself, pitching a reality show about his business in 2010 a long time before he pled guilty to racketeering and other charges in 2019.
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Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond (about Jim Carrey and his Andy Kaufman portrayal in
Man on the Moon), director and producer Chris Smith has a knack for finding the most watchably weird projects.
Smith s latest,
Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal, blends narrative- and documentary-style filmmaking. Through dramatic re-creations of phone conversations caught on FBI wiretaps, the film, out March 17 on Netflix, revisits the 2019 bribery story. It challenges the idea that we live in a meritocracy, Smith says. Even in education, which is something that we hold almost sacred in this country.
In the dramatizations, Matthew Modine plays Newport Beach college-admissions counselor Rick Singer, who pled guilty to racketeering and money laundering charges and cooperated with the sting that ensnared parents including Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin.