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TexasLady:

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--- Quote from: tory on March 23, 2009, 03:44:02 PM ---i am confused askip do u thnk a hotel stafe is one stafe member for evey room??

i live in a resort town and i think i have stayed at the hotel they r going to flim at in ny if it is 32and and lexington? any way wth that said they have like 4 ppl at the desk checking ppl in and out a manager and concer allso the kitchen staff is a whole  other part of the hotel and so is maide servace. oh and even on the crues i went on we only had one person per like 20 rooms to clean up 2 x's a day. thease ppl can easyaly handel 10 rm's each..they need to put the right person in the right job and wk as a team..

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tory, it doesn't sound like you are confused. It sounds like you agree with me that the staffing of Athena and KOTU at 7 and 5 members each for 5 rooms is excessive and there should have been many more rooms included.

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Tory and apskip, it sounds like Trump knows they won't be able to handle the full duties of a real staff person particularly cleaning a room so they will be able to double up on the chores. (Can you imagine Dennis Rodman cleaning a room?)  Not happening!  :lol:

Thanks as always for the recap apskip. I thought both presentations were lacking showing off the features of the phone. The soldier talking to his wife was superb but the music portion was overdone for me. Athena's presentation was a bit weak as well. It was all over the place, they had the mother with the child and the father on stage. I think it would have been much better if we had seen it filmed for use as an ad. The part with Brande was also weak because the focus became her "engagement" instead of the phone.

It helped the guys that they went second and they probably won because the crowd got enthused with Brian's performance, it still wasn't what I would consider a sales presentation.

For the drama of it all, Trump was brilliant. He got the men and women arguing even before they knew who won or lost.

marigold:
An interview with Claudia:

Celebrity Apprentice Castoff: Melissa Rivers Is "Obnoxious"

The promos for Week 4 of Celebrity Apprentice touted the Dennis Rodman meltdown, but that was just the tip of the drama-berg. TVGuide.com spoke to Deal or No Deal model Claudia Jordan, the latest casualty of The Donald, to get the dirt on her battle royale with Melissa Rivers and and her mouthy mommy.

TVGuide.com: Why did you step up as project manager for this challenge?
Claudia Jordan: I felt some people on the team were sitting back under the radar and waiting, and I don't really like that. I wanted to let Donald know right away that I'm one who is going to take initiative and step up to the plate and not wait for someone else to tell me what to do. Something just told me it was time, and I'm not afraid of a challenge.

TVGuide.com: Why do you think you lost even though you guys managed to pull your show together at the last minute?
Jordan: It was subjective. Another group of people could have thought we did a better job. It was like Brian McKnight or Joan Rivers making jokes about her gynecologist — which visual do you want to stay with longer? [Laughs] They liked it, and I think we did what we were supposed to do as far as creating some sort of emotional feel for the product. Plus, we were at a disadvantage going first. We warmed up the crowd and then the guys went.

TVGuide.com: Do you think Melissa Rivers should have gone home instead?
Jordan: Well, I don't like to put blame on other people. I was project manager and could have been sterner with Melissa, but at the end of the day, I don't know if anyone could control her. If it was a real job, Melissa would have been fired, but we were forced to work together. The project manager often gets the blame. But there were certain people that refused to be told what to do, and she had her mommy with her as well — so it was going against two people.

TVGuide.com: But Joan wasn't even there during all this.
Jordan: I know and I was like, "Really? You don't even know how bad your daughter was being." But I am proud I kept my cool with her. I did make my little comments off camera, but when it was in front of my team, I wasn't going to make a scene. It takes a lot of sense to bite your tongue when someone's that obnoxious. I don't hate her, her voice is just... I don't like spoiled brats. I feel like every sentence is "me" or "I" or "my mom." But Joan knows the deal — she knows her daughter is annoying. But at the end of the day, it's mother-daughter, you've got to stick up for your family.

TVGuide.com: And besides your drama, Dennis Rodman had his share of contention when he got up in Clint Black's face.
Jordan: Yeah, I kept hearing from the others that Clint was nice on the outside but sneaky, so I was waiting for something to happen. But I didn't know Dennis had such a problem with him. I guess Dennis felt like he wasn't being utilized, but he also wasn't making it easy for his team either. He was a little baby-ish as well. Sometimes I asked myself, "Why are you here? It feels like you hate everyone, so why bother? You're rich already." But he was one of the people I was most excited to see on the show — he definitely makes the show interesting.

http://www.tvguide.com/News/Celebrity-Apprentice-Castoff-1004317.aspx

marigold:
Melissa Rivers Blog:

Melissa Rivers: “Claudia Is Nothing More Than A Beauty Bully”

Episode number 4 of ‘The Celebrity Apprentice‘ is in the books and so is Claudia. As our project manager this week, Claudia was in way over her head. Everyone on the team had to rescue her, me the most. Which also explains her lashing out at me. She was trying to cover up for a poor job as our P.M.

Claudia decided to use the show as an excuse to get away with character assassination. She had some pretty harsh remarks about me and I’d like to clarify her thoughts…

Yes, I’ve had my nose done.

Yes, I’ve had my boobs done.

Yes, I’ve had botox in my forehead because I furrow my brow a lot.

But you know, looking around the boardroom at the men and women on both teams, I was thinking, who here hasn’t used botox? Next week look closely at the men and the women. Several of them have hair extensions and I’m proud to say, I’m not one of them. Claudia also commented that my face is “frozen.” Technically, I wouldn’t say that since at least 90% of the shots of me are my full-on reactions.

As for Claudia, the reality is that she’s nothing more than a beauty bully. Once I realized that Claudia was on the attack for me, I figured out how to handle the situation. And that’s by not reacting to her. Which is the only way to treat a bully.

For whatever reason that day, Claudia woke up angry with the sole intention to get me fired. Winning seemed second to her. Interestingly enough, a similar thing happened that day with Dennis Rodman. He came in hating Clint Black. Their morning confrontation completely caught our team by surprise. Watching the explosion I had two thoughts. First: Dennis is going to beat up Clint. Second: Do it Dennis! As everyone will see in the upcoming episodes, Clint is the biggest diva on the show. It’s his way or the highway. If you don’t go his way, he just sits down and that’s that.

The reality is for this task Claudia just didn’t have a legitimate handle on producing, and I did. That’s what I do for a living and she fought me every step of the way. It’s an easy rule on Celebrity Apprentice; know what the people who you’re working with do at their job. We all do something unique, that’s why we’re on the show in the first place.

While I’ve produced a countless numbers of television shows, I’ve never put on a huge live show like the one we did for our task featuring the ACN Video Phone. Our team could have really used the help of Tionne with this one. I kept trying to get her involved, but that wasn’t aired in the episode. I thought, “If the men are coming at us with a live performance from Brian McKnight, we need to come at them with a performance from Tionne.” But Claudia refused. She flat out said, “I don’t think Tionne’s voice is up to it.” We all looked at Claudia with the same expression, “Are you kidding me???”

As for not pulling out victory number four in as many weeks, there’s a simple answer. You can work your hardest but you can’t win them all.

The sad thing is that at the end of the day, our loss helped the women’s team dissolve into some bad high school lunchroom drama. Athena lost a player this week and as they say in one of my favorite movies, Heathers, “My teen-angst now has a body count.”

See you next week!

http://www.fancast.com/blogs/celebrity-apprentice/melissa-rivers-claudia-is-nothing-more-than-a-beauty-bully/

tory:
ty mg for those interviews. i liked clauda it does take a lot to bite u r toung, and joan and mellisa r out of freeken control, they r like 2 control freeks on steriods, jmo..i wish some one had had the guts to stand up for clauda but i think cloie would have been fired and i like cloie soo..what ever..

RealityFreakWill:
CELEBRITY APPRENTICE: 'It’s on like the break of dawn!'

This season of Donald Trump’s CELEBRITY APPRENTICE is proving to be even better than previous seasons.  His staff has done a great job in casting and it is starting to heat up among the celebrity contestants.  Last week Project Manager of the women’s team, ATHENA was Brande Roderick and as the show opened she presented her charity, CALIFORNIA POLICE YOUTH CHARITIES with a check for $167,000.00 which is the highest amount earned by any celebrity in the history of the show.  Canadian PM, Tom Green was ousted by The Donald after their loss, bringing team KOTU down to five men.

The group gathers in front of Capitale, which is a luxury event space in New York City where each team will be planning an event for a telecommunications company called ACN.  Two members of their upper management explain to the celebrities that they are looking for the teams to produce a high energy event to launch their newest product, the CAN-3000 Hi-Def Video Phone to a group of 500 of their top sales representatives.  This group will vote after the productions and determine who wins the task.  Two people volunteer as Project Managers, Brian McKnight (singer & Broadway star) and Claudia Jordan (a model on Deal or No Deal).

Before work can begin the teams need to negotiate in which order the teams will present.  Obviously being the closing act has more prestige and with both teams holding firm on their preference to go on last a coin toss between Anne Duke & Clint Black ensues.  Clint wins the toss and for some reason this sets Dennis Rodman off.  Some miss directed anger brings him to aggressively get in Clint’s short little face, ending with Dennis ripping off his microphone and storming off the set.  Team KOTU shake their heads, hop into their van and head out deciding that none of them have time to deal with the tantrums of a grown man.  They go straight to work utilizing Brian’s ability to create a performance as the celebration for the launch and Jesse James who is the obvious creative genius of the group, to produce a spot using the new phone to connect real military personnel with their families.  He enlists cadets from the nearby West Pointe Academy.  Dennis Rodman is left completely out of the group and PM, Brian tells team KOTU that this is a dictatorship and he will tell everyone what to do…which he does!

The women start out on the rough side.  Joan Rivers has a previous engagement so she will be gone during the planning process of the task.  The women attempt to brain storm ideas for a series of vignettes to be played out on the stage as well as on the video phones but between Melissa Rivers and the other women there are too many ideas and nothing that can be nailed down.  Melissa tries to corral everyone having been a producer for 15 years.  PM Claudia feels utterly inadequate, and bristles feeling that her authority is being usurped.  She calls out Melissa in a rude, combative way then proceeds to trash talk her to the camera.  Melissa backs down and gives Claudia all the rope she’ll need to hang herself later.  The rest of the team sits back in bewilderment waiting for their leader to give them direction, which she never does.

The day of the event the women lean heavily on Joan Rivers.  Joan who has been transported via the clout of Natalie Gulbis who scored her a private plane to get her back to NYC in time for the show arrives under slept and cranky.  The dress rehearsal is disastrous until Melissa take control of the situation to insure that her mother is not put in an embarrassing mess on stage. The product placement and Joan’s professional pitching of the ACN 3000 blended with her comedic elements proves to save the team.

The men’s production is over the top.  Dancers holding the new video phones, strobe lights, a full band and a free one song concert from Brian McKnight added to a touching use of the phones by the cadets of West Pointe…….what more could these 500 sales reps want?  The show…and I do mean show closed with the Reps chanting ACN! ACN! ACN!  No need for a motivational speaker for this staff!

The Board room served to reconfirm that team KOTU (with all it’s drama) put on a better show by over 80% of the sales reps voting for them.  Delighted, they are dismissed.  The women go straight to bitch mode with Claudia being the least professional of the bunch.  She had a personal dislike for Melissa who actually saved her ass by knowing what to do and taking charge.  She just couldn’t let her personal feelings be put aside and in the end it didn’t matter that she dragged Melissa & poor Chloe into the Boardroom with her, her unprofessional behavior and lack of leadership abilities cost her, and she was indeed…..Fired!  Finally, a case where celebrity good looks were of no use or value.

Next week Dennis Rodman goes into final melt down and this crazy Diva unravels like a cheap boa...you gotta watch!

http://www.tvgrapevine.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3421:celebrity-apprentice-its-on-like-the-break-of-dawn&catid=74:celebrityapprentice

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