The writer doesn't seem to me to point the finger at anyone but the landlord. She says it's the landlord who promises to give her a different price than the one she signs the lease for. It doesn't even sound like the team or the producers even knew what the landlord was doing.

Today's NY Post has an article about why the reward this week was the picnic on the lawn. CLICK HERE

It just frightens me to think that Trump may be doing to that grand old edifice what he did to his penthouse. No. That's not right. It sickens me.

Or that Protege didn't spend as much on the re-do and gave the renter the remaining seed money as a "signing bonus". Then the rent looks high, but she doesn't pay any extra.

Not that any of it matters - Trump fires anyone that he wants for any reason that he wants. Maybe he should do it Tribal Council style. Trump could dress up like some island chief, and the apprentices could grovel before being pushed into a volcano.

Interesting. Trump distinctly said the house was "55,000 square feet," whereas the Post article says it's "7500 square feet." That's right up there with the 200 IQs.

OK, American Idol is starting to disappoint me this season, so I'm branching out to include The Apprentice in my reality-TV discussion board obsession.



A few people have mentioned bits and pieces of Tammy's Today show appearance in some of the other threads, but I think the most important part of her appearance has been overlooked: She lists "the car I drive" on her resume. Matt Lauer had her resume in hand, and he read many parts that struck me as ludicrous: 1. Her "objective" is something like: "Find an outstanding money-making opportunity and run with it!" 2. She lists her weight-lifting schedule (and probably how many reps, as well, for all I know); and, most horrifyingly, 3. She lists her car. From what I remember, that part of her resume goes a little something like this: Current car: BMW. One speed: Fast! Next car: chauffeur-driven limousine. Actually, Matt didn't actually read the "One speed" part out loud--she made a point of telling him that he'd "left out the most important part about the cars" and then recited the "One speed: Fast!" line herself. So I'm not sure if it's the BMW that goes fast, or if she's looking for a NASCAR-trained chauffeur for that up-and-coming limo.

Now, I've only ever written a CV, not a resume, and god knows I myself am well-trained in the art of vita-padding in order to change "sat on my ass in grad school, bored out of my mind, and not actually reading Foucault" to "actual reasons that I should be your next Assistant Professor!" but the whole resume thing actually made me sick to my stomach. Apparently the resume was the actual one she sent in as part of the audition process for the show, and the "weight-lifting" part was crafted to be a direct appeal to The Donald since he and his hair are "fitness buffs." (Yeah, I know whenever I see the The Donald, I can't even look at The Hair because my eyes are riveted on his smokin' hot bod!). But the "One speed: Fast!" Yick! Makes me wonder just what exactly Heidi has on her resume...

Why on earth would you put the type of car you drive on your resume?

Mama Tiger said:


AMEN! When I read that all I could imagine was that he was talking of the house and grounds or that the palace has half a dozen levels of below ground dungeons. All decorated with gilt covered iron maidens and the like.

I think that both numbers may be wrong. My 4-BR ranch-style house is around 3000 sq. feet. Trump's mansion is obviously more than twice the size of my home.

In case anyone's interested in seeing The Apprentice featured on the Pixel Challenge:

http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/in...dpost&p=1055479

To my knowledge, the only way they could have gotten around it was by pixelating her face, but since she was plainly visible its obvious she signed the release. Network lawyers are sticklers for things like that because their bosses don't like being sued.

I echo Miss Alli's sentiments about the author totally. "Oh, its just so horrible that I willingly went along with what I percieved to be a sham while cameras and boom mics were present! I was shocked - SHOCKED! - to see it on television! Those evil, evil TV people!"

There are two definite signs of pretention in this world: One is when a entry-level job-seeker shows up to an interview with a briefcase, the other is when a person goes out of their way to make it known that they don't watch television.

Man. It must really suck to go from writing articles on Danish educators visting the College of Staten Island, or covering school board meetings on school menu options, to having to deal with being on national TV and then getting to write an "insider's scoop" article on what turned out to be a popular primetime reality show. Because it will do nothing for her visibility in her chosen field.

Next, we'll have a column saying that she never wanted to write that other column about her unwanted TV experience (for which she has nothing but disdain), but her editors forced her to! Threatened to take her off the education beat if she didn't! And that education beat for the Staten Island Advance is her life's goal, it's why she went into journalism!



Why, it was a perfect time to create a reward for the apprentices that involved visiting the house, then! Going to one of his Atlantic City hotels or something was probably too boring, compared to a picnic on a chilly day in Bedford when it was going to be impossible to actually go inside the house. Heh.

Here is a general MSNBC article. The article is an introduction to anyone who has not seen the show.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4340618/

From Omarosa's article:



Interesting...seems the writer of the article didn't think too much of her either.



Grr, yet another book to clutter people's minds and bookshelves by someone who doesn't know what they're talking about. And who exactly is supposed to carry this line of business suits? Limited Too?

From the article on O. (linked above) --



This article appeared on Friday -- I will be very interested to hear if NBC has any comment on this statement.

and this --



Okay, that takes care of his choirboy image -- but, apparently, he is a beast with whom she will be touring campuses:

I believe that quote was garbled -- didn't he mean to say "they have a combined IQ of 200"? (apologies if anyone has come to this conclusion earlier)

NEWSWEEK COVER: 'You're Fired!' - Donald Trump and 'The Apprentice' TV's Guilty Pleasure For A Nervous Economy

Please link to the Newsweek story rather than reproducing long pieces from other places. Thanks.

I can fully believe that O spent 18 hours in the ER after that incident. I know people who will go to the ER for any and every reason. Skinned your knee? Go to the ER. Have a headache? Go to the ER. Natch this prima donna would want to go to the ER (at MB's expense). And as the mother of 3 very active boys, head trauma and concussions are something of a hobby around our house. Heck, I fell from a ladder and whacked my head on concrete from 5 feet. Ow. Her behavior after the incident (boardroom, reward) is not consistent with severe trauma. More likely a minor concussion which is nothing serious and something most people wouldn't go to the ER for because there's nothing they can do about it there anyway. Unless you are vomiting and having trouble with your vision and balance, it's no big thing. Unless of course you are the prima donna O. A paper cut probably requires medical attention.

I can only guess that O's line of business suits will have cropped jackets that reveal the midriff.

now now--the show, Trump, etc. probably made Omarosa go to the er, she had no choice--but the 18 hours may have been from being put at the back of the line!

iii--combined iq of 200--priceless!

What she probably didn't say was that maybe 15 of those hours were spent waiting in line. I once worked at one of the biggest hospitals in downtown Boston and a donor's personal assistant once called our office, furious that her employer (who had emphysema) had to wait in the ER while people with more critical injuries got faster attention. She waited something like 7 hours. A NYC hospital? Likely even more crowded in the ER, and Omarosa likely got bumped to the back of the line by car crash victims, cardiac arrests, etc.

Last month I slipped on some ice, fell on my back and hit my head. I spent the evening with an ice pack but could go about my business the next day. I can't believe that Omarosa couldn't do so much as swab the toilet and sponge some Ajax around the sinks. Or maybe the rest of the team was worried that she'd say "Why are you treating me like a domestic? Because I'm black?"

Yes, because we all KNOW that it's TOTALLY BELIEVABLE that Omarosa would walk into an interview session, where some producer would blithely inform her that the show only had room for one black woman. Good lord, can't this woman even make her lies believable?

From the above-linked Omarosa article:


Anyone else call "Bullshit"? If it were anyone else (except Sam, naturally), I might buy it. But from this woman? I doubt it.

TVGuide Online has an article with The Donald today. It's worth looking at for the last Q/A alone! Bwah!

LINK

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, in 2002, African-Americans (defined as "black or black in combination with one or more other races") make up 13.3% of the population. So Burnett was right in there with 2 out of 16, and once again, shut up, Omarosa.

The only reason I wouldn't believe that Omarosa might tour with Trump is that I'm surprised he would take the time.

The lie is obvious: she says "this summer"? The applications are due prior to the summer...and why would you go to college campuses in the summer? To recruit freshmen during orientations?

If a resume like that appeared on my desk, I would handle it with gloves and tongs and toss it right in the trash. Ewwwww! How pathetic this woman is.

I would not want to be the judge in the Who Tells More Lies: Trump or the NY Post contest.

Which makes me wonder - what were the resumes of the 200,000+ rejected contestants like? And why the hell would Tammy be chosen to participate on the show if this is what her resume contained?

From Assorama article:

The World's Biggest Understatement Award goes to: "I have an attitude problem."

The World's Biggest Understatement Runner-Up and The #1 Way to Win Friends and Influence People Award goes to: "Trump is a beast."

The "I Don't Think It Means What You Think It Means" Award goes to: "One thing he taught her was to brand everything..." Must be why she's attempting to brand the NBC pics she's using on her website. She is a dum.

The Worst Liar Award goes to: "She'll be going on tour with Trump this summer...recruiting for the next edition of the show" Reason for award is pointed out by skagirl77 above.

I don't see how Assorama could have any credibility after this show or why anyone would hire her.

I read thru that Newsweek article (thanks, Sailor) and find it interesting that they favor Troy to win (3-1) and that they gave even odds to Heidi and Amy (4-1)...I would've thought that Amy would be given far better odds than Heidi!

Was also surprised that Bill was ranked third-to-last (Ereka, given better odds to win?!), with Katrina dead last (40-1).



Maybe that's why she's going to business for herself as a clothing designer and writer. I can't believe she's made it this far without a smidgen of self-awareness as to how she comes across. Maybe Trump took the "beast" comment as a compliment? I wonder if she doffed him with her white gloves as she said it: "Oh Donald! You really are a beast! <giggle giggle>"

Billionaire Donald Trump has allowed a New York reporter to examine his hair - to prove it is not a wig.

His hair color is very weird in that picture... Almost like a tiger's fur. Grrrrrr!!

Particularly when she referred to DT as "a beast". Bullshit indeed.

From today's New York Post:

February 23, 2004 -- HOW real is the reality in "The Apprentice"? Kinda phony, according to Deborah Young, a reporter for the Staten Island Advance who was seen this week renting an apartment in Carroll Gardens. The reporter had previously arranged to rent the pad at a lower price, but played along when the show's producers asked her to sign a lease at a 27 percent mark-up, the apartment having been spruced up by one of the apprentice teams as that week's assignment. It was also made to look like Young saw the apartment moments before the 5 p.m. deadline, when she was really at the apartment mid-afternoon. The dishonest charade has left her feeling dirty. "I'm not very comfortable in the role of participant in the newest entertainment craze," Young wrote.

Did someone say that the rejectees are all sent to another suite while the program continues? That is a back story I would like to see told each week, superimposed on the return of the "winners" from the boardroom.

Another reason not to want to be fired: you would be joining David, Jason (he might be a bit of fun), SAM, Bowie (also up for some fun), Jessie, and Tammy. I'd like to see THEIR faces as the door opens and the new firee enters every few days. OTOH, they are probably thrilled not to see O. each time.

Unlike Survivor, where some great contenders are eliminated early, the early Apprentice losers are just that, by and large.

A good general review of the show from the local alternative newsweekly is here. Like the earlier New Yorker article, he makes some interesting points about some of the its hypocrisies.

edited for url change

Well, the New York Post better watch its ass, because that piece completely misrepresents what the other piece said. It never said that the producers pulled ANYTHING - the only people who lied were (1) her; and (2) the landlord. And she did NOT say she wasn't there when they said she was. She said that she was there the first time earlier, and then came back.

Not that I expect accuracy, but you'd think that when they're just recounting something that was written elsewhere, they could at least read it.

Yeah, Miss Alli, I agree with your point, but this is the NYPost after all. I doubt many people (outside of this board) have read the original writer's actual article and God knows she's not going to object to the misinterpretation and bad reporting of the Post because it just boosted her 15 minutes and theoretical marketability. If that wasn't the writer's desired goal, then she'd never have written the article for publication in the first place. At any rate, as you said before, she's a total hypocrite.

Trump claims that the phrase "You're fired!" came to him during the first show. Burnett would have had him say some vague thing about the apprentice not being good enough, but the Hair himself came up with the magic words.

That's sooooo amazing. How does he do it?

Because he's not just an ordinary famewhore but, as that Nashville Scene article points out, a "megalomaniacal" one. Hee! (That's a great article, BTW -- brought the snark almost as well as Miss Alli!)

Boy, this sures sounds like a pre-prepared conclusion.

A Newsweek article titled "The World According to Trump"

From the article:
Others say the problem is more serious, that CEOs have had enough trouble with their reputations, and "The Apprentice" isn't helping the rehab. "It's pretty vulgar," says Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, associate dean of the Yale School of Management. "It's deception, trickery and sex peddling. The lesson is that leadership selection is developed in a process akin to musical chairs at a Hooter's restaurant."

Isn't Sonnenfeld the same guy who is one of the "experts" providing feedback on the NBC website? Pretty scathing remarks for someone loosely associated with the show.

A Live Chat with The Donald.

Word, kattam! But isn't that one of the GREAT ( and honest!) quotes to describe this show thru the first four eppys...."musical chairs at a Hooter's" hee!

From the Newsweek article:

So instead of "Up to the suite or down to the street" it's "Up to the suite or up to the street."

I don't know about that, but he's on the USA Today panel of experts. In any case, media commentary does not give him an association with the show, it just means he watches and people care about his opinion.

TVGuide.com's interview with Tammy.

This quote from her just cracks me up:



She's just too too clueless.

Loved the Nashville Article, engaste. It was very well-written and found a great TWoP balance - loving and trashing the show at the same time.

Washington Post - The Evil Sista Of Reality Television: Shows Trot Out Old Stereotypes To Spice Up Stagnant Story Lines

They show her smiling all the time. She smiles whenever she says something self-satisfied.

I still say personality disorder.

"It's all in the editing!" Yeah. She's the first nitwit to come up with that one.

That's a really unfortunate article, in that it basically lets her off the hook for what a horrible person she is. And that helps no one. And you'd think that writer would at least call her out for her stupid "pot/kettle" crap, rather than just mentioning it in passing.

And anyone who doesn't get the difference between Omarosa and Alicia is just plain stupid. And anyone who goes to reality television contestants for their opinions of whether they were portrayed fairly and expects to get a useful response? Also stupid.

BWAH! (Bonus laugh after finishing the recap. Heh.)

Yet another ARTICLE on The Hair.

Totally agree with Miss Alli regarding Omanarcacissa having a personality disorder. I am a clinical psychologist and believe that if she does have a PD, it is most likely narcissistic personality disorder. Criteria for that disorder include:

1. Has a grandiose sense of self-importance (e.g., exaggerates achievements and talents, expects to be recognized as superior (Ding)

2. Believes that he or she is "special" and unique and can only be understood by, or should associate with, other special or high-status people (or institutions) (Ding)

3. Has a sense of entitlement, i.e., unreasonable expectations of especially favorable treatment or automatic compliance with his or her expectations

4. Is interpersonally exploitative, i.e., takes advantage of others to achieve his or her own ends (DING DING DING)

5. Lacks empathy: is unwilling to recognize or identify with the feelings and needs of others (SCREAMING DING)

6. Is often envious of others or believes that others are envious of him or her

7. Shows arrogant, haughty behaviors or attitudes