David Mamet Thinks It's Super Unfair That His Friend Felicity Huffman Has to Face the Consequences Of Her Actions
CelebritiesDirt BagRuh Ro! Playright David Mamet has stepped in to defend the characters of his friends Felicity Huffman and William H. Macy after they were caught paying a proctor to raise their daughter’s SAT scores as part of a sweeping college admissions scandal. According to Mamet, such lovely people do not deserve to be punished for flagrantly attempting to game the system with their wealth. Punishment should only be for poor people!
In a statement 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.
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“The unqualified may be accepted for many reasons, among them, as Legacies, and on account of large donations made by their parents. I do not see the difference between getting a kid into school by bribing the Building Committee, and by bribing someone else. But, apparently, the second is against the Law. So be it.”
Actually, I feel slightly better about the validity of the admissions process if the daughter of two well-known celebrities still couldn’t get into [checks notes]…USC? I figured private schools had an underground system that just fast-tracked wealthy scions straight to graduation day.
Mamet then makes a plug for he and Macy’s theater company (in operation for 35 years, New York City real estate be damned!) before getting back to the matter at hand.
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.”
In other words, rich white people already get whatever they want. Why should they start facing consequences now?
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And while we’re on the subject (and Instagram is busted), Full House star Lori Loughlin was released for her own role in the scandal after posting $1 million bond. Again, these are the people on whom we must take pity.
In case you missed this detail, she and her husband, the designer Mossimo Giannulli, are accused of paying $500,000 to bribe daughter’s way into USC by pretending she was on the rowing team. Again, USC? Seriously? I got into USC, and I’m basically and ambulatory meatball. (Spoiler, I didn’t go.)
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