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RealityFreakWill:
'Celebrity Apprentice' recap: Don't sweat the small stuff
Okay, my fellow Celebrity Apprentice-viewing PopWatchers, how delectably dramatic was this week's episode? Now that they're back to the one-challenge-per-show format, it allows more time for what reality TV is all about: juicy, juicy fighting. Last night, the teams were charged with creating a four-page advertorial for Right Guard's newest deodorant that featured New York Knicks power forward/Annie Duke's BFF David Lee. So many things made me happy about the episode: that both teams (AND the Right Guard execs) immediately thought ''naked'' when figuring out how to get Lee to pose; that KOTU's storyboard stick figures were so endearingly terrible; that Annie's best comeback when arguing with Joan was that ''poker players are the most awesome people in the world!''
First things first, though — I was disappointed when the Donald moved Jesse to KOTU because I couldn't figure out the motive behind the move. Was he trying to create a super team that would beat Athena, or was he picking Jesse as the next patsy to be forced out? I mean, really — Joan's totally safe because Trump loves her (and so do I), and Clint's totally safe because he's so stubbornly incompetent that they need him around for drama. I'm sure Clint's a very nice guy outside of the confines of a heavily edited reality show, but he comes across as a grade-A douchebag on TV. And since the past, like, five episodes have been all about how he sucks, they're either setting him up for a dark horse victory (possible), or a spectacular failure (more likely).
The producers did such a good job of focusing on each team's weaknesses in the challenge that it was hard to tell whether Melissa's whining or Jesse's passive-aggressiveness would prove to be the breaking point this week. It might've been obvious to everyone but me as to who would win, but I thought the producers made it seem the entire time that Athena's ad would be better — or maybe that's just because their idea sounded more competent, and it didn't include deodorant clip art that towered over Lee's head. While Jesse straight-up laughed in Clint's face after repeatedly telling him the ad was horrible, Melissa spent the entire time complaining about how new BFFs Annie and Brande were totally having a party on Friday night with boys and spin the bottle but they weren't inviting her! Or, actually, that they were working together to edge her out. Which they pretty much were.
Apparently the Right Guard execs liked both teams' ads, but Trump ultimately awarded the win to KOTU. All of Annie's manipulating (well played, lady), Brande's delegating (not as well played, but good for you anyway) and Melissa's whining (probably founded, but way more dramatic than necessary) paid off, because Trump fired Melissa after a last-minute surge of passionate defensiveness from Brande. Melissa, NOT HAPPY with the decision, stormed out of the boardroom, demanded her stuff back, and refused a post-show interview, dragging her mom behind her.
Unfortunately, we have to wait until next week to see the aftermath of Melissa's post-elimination tantrum. Will Joan return after her daughter's ousting or won't she?! (She totally will.) Until then, PopWatchers, tell me: Which was more awkward: Joan's weird/unfunny NBA race joke, or Brande comparing herself to Ivanka, a Wharton graduate? Which Rivers had the best one-liner? And which ad feature was worse: KOTU's Microsoft Paint-looking ''fire'' or Athena's stupid font?
http://popwatch.ew.com/popwatch/2009/04/celebrity-app-4.html
tory:
ok so i was not ever going to watch this horrable train wreck of a show again after the donald fired cloie. but i did i watched last nights latest depoticery, on hulu bc i was reading a lot of post about it, omg the rivers gone wild at the end was so worth it, what a baby melissa is and some of the cleb's have been saying this all along storming out with mommy dearest..
i also got to see the cleb's comment on cloies fireing it is a web asode and i feel much better they were just as up set as i was..so i am glade i watched this epi an i do hope rob and trevor talk about it on there live show tonight..jmo i hope neather of the rivers come bk..
apskip:
There have been two very good recaps (one by Annie and one by Will) posted already, but I think there is value to what you will read below:
CA2, 6 Contestants Left Episode
There were two sets of major sniping in this episode. I ahve covered the Melissa/Joan vs. the world above. The second one was Jesse vs. Clint. This happened because Trump just reassigned Jesse from a team with Brande and 2 other women to a team with Clint and Joan, two of the all-time sourpusses. Sparks continuously flew between Jesse and Clint and Joan in a rare bit of intelligent play kept her head down and stayed out of the crossfire.
Jesse is shown visiting the Long Beach Education Foundation to bring the winner's $20,000 check to that industrial arts program. Jesse went there briefly as a youth and you can bet that the current students all knew who he was and what he does (I summarize it as custom bike and car builder, producer, publisher, television host, and restaurateur, and about to be reality TV show star for his own show premiering this week, but Donald Trump sees him as the husband of Sandra Bullock). They highly valued his autograph.
The task was to create a 4 page ad layout for Right Guard deodorant using David Lee of the New York Knicks as the subject (or maybe object of many women's desire). When he finally arrives for the photoshoot, Brande labels him as tall (what a surprise for an NBA power forward) and very cute. So both teams can display David Lee however they want to, it is just the issue of having boundaries for exposure. The Right Guard executives get a question from Athena about the bounds of propriety and they say that anything tasteful goes except make sure that the Right Guard is the focus of the ads. Brande is the Athena Project Manager because she has done this type of work before. Clint is chosen because is is his turn.
So Athena splits up the workload and Brande gives Annie what she wants (the crafting of the messages) plus the job of presenting it. Clint as usual is doing most of it himself, but Jesse was allowed to go off with his camera to shoot backgrounds and a shot of a bridge from Manhattan (but not the Brooklyn Bridge) that became the centerpoint of two ad pages. There were professional photographers running around and a few staff people from either Celebrity Apprentice or Right Guard.
So Jesse feels that his ideas were not accepted by Clint. Joan rebuts that and says that Jesse did not respond to Clint's many overtures for his input. Melissa plays the odd person out by accusing Annie and Brande of conspiring to get her fired. It looked to me like they were playing hard for themselves rather than working for the defeat of Melissa.
The Eyes and Ears for Donald were Jim Cramer of CNBC and Ivanka. Jim meets with Athena and comes to the conclusion that Annie has very cleverly put herself in a position to win if Athena wins and not get eliminated if Athena loses by having all decisions officially made by Brande as Project Manager. He admires this.
The presentations came off well (no second-guessing from Joan) and it looks to me that it will be a close decision. Trump meets with the executives and finds out that they like both teams' work. Athena had its ads out of sequence in the opinion of the executives, who loved their half-naked shot of David Lee and would have put it first. They loved the use of their company color of orange in the shots (score one for Clint who insisted that orange was better than his trademark black as the background color despite strong objections by Jesse.
So we come to the boardroom and Trump has each team's ad campaign shared with the other team. Both teams see many strengths in the other campaign. Then he bores in on the Clint vs. Jesse conflicts on KOTU. That was just for show, as then he reveals that both teams had done well, but KOTU was the winner. So Clint, Jesse and Joan are very likely safe and one of Melissa, Brande and Annie will be fired. Trump asks Brande about the division of labor on her team and she explains what she asked Annie to do. Annie has no role in these proceedings except that Jim Cramer repeated his mantra about her cleverness and recommended that Trump leave her alone, which he did. The focus shifted from Brande to Melissa. I really expected Brande as losing project manager to go. However, she pulled out a "I'm better for the long term because of my fundraising prowess" argument against Melissa, who is smart and works hard but cannot raise much money. Jim Cramer switches positions because of that and he convinces Trump to also switch. Trump fires Melissa. She is extremely upset at this but a strong case was made by Brande for Brande.
So Melissa storms out and refuses to do the traditional musings in a taxi ride to end the show. Her mother storms out too and appears to not be coming back for the next episode. You never know and I will not be surprised to see her back for that. But if not, then everyone will be ahead as Joan has become a totally disruptive backbiter. She came up with another Hitler line: Jesse - I thought Annie wsas Hitler? Joan - I don't want to insult Hitler. Not having any more of her nastiness will be just fine with me.
So we are down to 4 contestants (assuming Joan stays away). Clint is wily and stubborn, but can he raise a lot of money? Jesse is talented in many diverse ways, but he too is not well-connected except through his wife. Brande and Annie have clearly demonstrated their ability to tap friends for big money, Annie from poker players that Joan also disparages in this episode and Brande through her Playboy connections. I think it will be Annie vs. Brande in the finale.
RealityFreakWill:
Melissa Rivers doesn't regret her 'The Celebrity Apprentice' behavior
Melissa Rivers has no regrets for the expletives-laced tirade she launched after Donald Trump fired her from the second season of The Celebrity Apprentice.
"Of course you don't ever want to lose your cool, but I'm human. I was exhausted. I just got pushed too far," Rivers told The New York Post on Monday about the incident, which featured both Rivers and her mother Joan Rivers verbally attacking fellow contestants Annie Dukes and Brande Roderick after Rivers was fired at the conclusion of Sunday night's The Celebrity Apprentice broadcast on NBC.
Rivers had run straight to her mother, who had been watching the boardroom session via video feed from the show's contestant suite, and begun bashing fellow Athena teammates Dukes and Roderick -- whom she had accused of forcing a "cabal" to eliminate her -- immediately after Trump had announced her firing.
"They both f--ked m.e.. like two little whore pit vipers! Whore pit vipers!" Rivers shouted at her mother, who had previously announced that she would quit the show if the younger Rivers was fired, as she packed her personal items and prepared to leave with her daughter.
"You gotta admit it's a great line," River told The Post on Monday.
After brushing off Dukes and Roderick's attempts to say goodbye, Rivers then turned her attention to the show's producers.
"I want my sh-t and I want it now... I'm not getting in [the elevator] without it... and I'm not coming back for an interview," Rivers shouted toward the show's production staff area.
Meanwhile, Joan Rivers -- who had already compared Dukes to Hitler when they'd clashed in earlier episodes -- confronted Duke and Roderick directly, telling Dukes she was "a piece of trash" and lecturing Roderick that she was "a stupid blonde" that had "been so manipulated" by Duke.
After arguing with Roderick and telling her that she didn't believe that the competition's $250,000 charity prize could mean "so much" to her and "didn't want to hear this charity nonsense," Joan Rivers had then turned her attention back to Dukes.
"You're a poker player! A poker player! That's beyond white trash!" she shouted at Dukes.
Joan Rivers had then joined her daughter at the floor's elevator lobby, where the younger Rivers had begun berating the show's producers.
"I want my f--king stuff now!" Melissa Rivers shouted as she began to enter the show's production staff area.
"I want my purse -- I want everything," she said as she waved her fingers.
"And David, you're not getting an [exit] interview," Rivers continued before launching a string of expletives that had to be completely censored.
"Get the f--king elevator, I'm f--king done," Rivers continued to shout. "I'm not coming back -- yeah, I'm really unaffected. F--k everyone."
"F--king bulls--t," Rivers shouted as she and her mother finally boarded the waiting elevator and left the show's Trump Tower location. "Lying f--king whores."
However even though the footage shown on The Celebrity Apprentice's Sunday night broadcast was filmed more than six months ago, time has apparently done nothing to change Rivers' mind about her behavior.
"I said what a lot of women have wanted to say to those kinds of girls their entire lives," Rivers told The Post. "It was like being in high school all over again."
In addition, Rivers also attempted to suggest that, given she eventually returned for an exit interview (see below) in which she attempted to spin her behavior, she had somehow ended her The Celebrity Apprentice experience "as a professional."
"I went and cooled down," Rivers told The Post. "I did come back the next morning as a professional and did my exit interview."
http://www.realitytvworld.com/news/melissa-rivers-doesnt-regret-her-the-celebrity-apprentice-behavior-8888.php
RealityFreakWill:
Joan & Melissa Rivers on The Ellen Degeneres Show
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