Who Is Rick Singer? 5 Things to Know About the College Scandal Mastermind Explored in ‘Operation Varsity Blues’

During a WonderCon@Home panel on Saturday, Batwoman showrunner Caroline Dries appeared with five of the series’ stars, to tease what’s to come in the rest of Season 2.

Ruby Rose spoke out after the CW series “Batwoman” finally recast her role.In 2018, Rose was announced as the first lesbian superhero to headline a TV show with her role as Kate Kane in the networks’ ever-growing franchise based on DC Comics superheroes.

Ruby Rose spoke out after the CW series "Batwoman" finally recast her role. In 2018, Rose was announced as the first lesbian superhero to headline a TV show with her role as Kate Kane in the networks’ ever-growing franchise based on DC Comics superheroes.

On Sunday night, Batwoman answered the lingering question of “What ever happened to Kate Kane?” Since Javicia Leslie donned the cape and cowl as Batwoman (aka Ryan Wilder), Kate’s whereabouts have remained a loose end, but the mystery was solved tonight as Wallis Day will step into the role that was once played by Ruby Rose.

NEW YORK -- Chris Smith didn’t initially think the 2019 college bribery scandal made for a good documentary subject. He was editing “Fyre,” the hit Netflix documentary about the music-festival fiasco, when his longtime collaborator, Jon Karmen, suggested another real tale of fraud and spectacle be their next film.“I didn’t see it at all,” said Smith in a recent interview.

Felicity Huffman, Lori Loughlin and her husband Mossimo Giannuli, TPG Capital executive Bill McGlashan and Hot Pockets heiress Michelle Janvas have all been sentenced.Also Read: Netflix's College Admissions Scandal Doc Starring Matthew Modine as Rick Singer to Debut in MarchBut still, 60 year-old Singer remains very much a free man and is out and about in Newport Beach on $500,000 bail. He admitted to a Boston judge in 2019, “I am absolutely responsible for it.

2019 college admissions cheating scandal that rocked elite universities and Hollywood, and it gives viewers a better understanding of William “Rick” Singer, the college coach who orchestrated the entire racketeering ring.Singer ran a fraudulent education nonprofit called The Key which he would use to funnel donations from wealthy clients to the staff at elite universities like Harvard, Yale, and USC as bribes in exchange for admission or spots on athletic teams.

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Netflix debuted its documentary about the college admissions scandal, which seemingly refocused the conversation on scam mastermind William "Rick" Singer.

Olivia Jade Giannulli, would be guaranteed a spot at the University of Southern California.

Lori Loughlin is ready to move forward after the college admissions scandal, and hopes others do as well.

Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin as well as ringleader William “Rick” Singer, were charged in a massive college admissions cheating scam in March 2019. The charges were the end result of an ongoing investigation dubbed “Operation Varsity Blues,” named after the 1999 teen film starring James Van Der Beek.

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A dutiful crime documentary that raises few hackles, “Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal,” doesn’t waste breath on moralistic huffing and puffing about what a certain group of rich parents did to get their children into exclusive colleges. It also, delightfully, expends precious little screen time on the celebrities like Felicity Huffman and Lori Laughlin, whose faces and names featured in nearly all news stories about this story when it broke in early 2019.

From Fyre and Tiger King to 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.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticIn criminal cases, wiretapped phone conversations are commanding pieces of evidence (juries love them), and in documentaries about crime they tend to be some of the most gripping. We hear people as they really are.

“A little bit of justice being served in a sea of injustice” is how cultural critic and interviewee Naomi Fry describes the 2019 college admissions bribery scandal and why it seized the nation’s attention for a few pre-pandemic weeks. The gap between the myth of American meritocracy and the reality of the have-everythings cheating or gaming the system to hoard even more resources has seldom been more glaring than in this case.

Watch Video: 'Operation Varsity Blues' Trailer: Watch Matthew Modine as College Admissions Scandal MastermindMatthew Modine plays Singer in the reenactments, and he captures the man as described by various interviewees — someone without much of a sense of humor, prone to exaggerated self-promotion, and skilled at salesmanship.