BTW I met Tony Danza today randomly. If you wanna hear a sorta funny story about it, feel free to email me. I resisted the urge to ask why the slutted up Ereka even more, though.

Goodness, Trump is laughing all the way to the bank and is truly trying to take over the entire world. Looking over these media articles, I expect to truly see the "Trumpon", gold lined tampons with Trump's headshot on each one with the inscription "for the professional woman with demanding tastes". Ewww.

But, his ego is already out of control. Lord help us all now that he has two more successes and all the product tie ins and spin off marketing ventures.

Here's a plainer recap than we're used to but it does have the last names of all Apprenti. Andy Litinsky's name is missing from the roster but is in the recap, and everyone else is there. Hadn't seen this sort of quick full-name reference yet, so hope it's useful/interesting. Here's an index.

ETA: they wrote one name wrong. Sandy Ferreira, not Sandy Frederick. Added 100% correct link.

txsunshine33, there is no word but EWWWWWWWWW!!!! But I'm laughing too, so there ya go.

Good find, Kazoo Jack!

Last Week's 'Apprentice' Boardroom Shocked Carolyn. Zap2it PHOTO of a very serious-looking Carolyn, but it shows her eyes beautifully.

Hmm. I know who gets my vote for this.

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Stacie's shame. EDMONTON SUN Review. Snarky. Male POV.

Mini-Trump is mouthy, grating. NY Daily News. Opening salvo:
TA casting director offers career tips to college students. The Daily Orange Free registration to read entire article.

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The Apprentice 2: Episode 3: Cool Runnings and Frosty Receptions The Trades Review. Meh.

More about Nick's latest venture. London Free Press.

Oh my. Katrina was a "finalist" last season per this press release. eMediaWire. Second paragraph. Geez, talk about spin.

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'The Apprentice 2' Recap: 09/23/2004 NBC13 out of Birmingham, AL SCARY PHOTO of Evil Li'l Stacy.

The Washington Post's take on Trump's fragrance. Some snark.
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Crest Whitening Expressions Puts the Squeeze on The Apprentice PR Newswire Bah. Can't imagine I'll be using the stuff. EVER.

Who knew Forbes could be snarky? Even if I do think they give TD too much credit.

Raj makes the news in India. Indiawest

Karma's a bitch, huh TD? NY Times Free registration.

I'm watching Stacie J. on The Today Show ... I have to run carpool, but first let me say ...

What a grown-up. And she said that her firing was "a wimp move" on Trump's part. Calm, cool, collected, honest ... very impressive.

She also pointed out that she had to take personality, psychologocial and IQ tests to get on the show ... if she truly were crazy, they should have picked it up beforehand.

I liked her. Trump is an idiot.

ITA, Mswestern. She came across very well; she wasn't defensive, and didn't ramble without making a point. I did think her outfit was a little loud for 8:20 in the morning. Matt gave her the opportunity to suggest that she was targeted because of her race, but she didn't go there. Was disappointed because she thought she'd be judged on merit, not brought down by an angry mob. She thought her firing was "more facial than racial." Heh.

I just came from the website to apply for the 3rd season of The Apprentice and found this stipulation:



Also known as the Omarosa stipulation. I wonder how Stacie got missed.

I'm glad they showed the 8-ball clip on Today. The first time around, I didn't realize how positively terrifying Stacie was. Boy, that li'l StacY is quite the actress. For someone who was having the most frightening moment of her life, she sure hid it well behind that "Huh?" expression.

I was disappointed that Matt didn't ask more pertinent questions like "Why didn't you defend yourself in the boardroom?" Well, there is a reason I never watch these morning shows.

I'll say this for Stacie J. - she came out of that interview looking better than many of the women last season did during their Today appearances. I'm very glad she made the point that she had to pass psychological and IQ tests to get on the show. I feel that Matt should have asked harder questions, but he was still better than Katie IMO.

It was "facial not racial" (tm Stacie) ya'll. Interesting interview on Today. I agree with what everyone said about how she came across to me and I agree with Stacie that it was a whimpy firing and I've lost positive regard for Trump because of his boneheaded decision. I'm glad she didn't just kiss his butt.

First, I'd like to remind y'all to scroll up to find my post beginning @ 10:10 p.m. last night. I kept adding items to that post through about 3:30 a.m. this morning until there ended up to be about a dozen. If you're interested, of course. There are two review/recaps in that batch that are pretty good and one that is meh.

Entertainment Weekly review. Opening sentence:
People Magazine review of last night's show. As usual, I'll be mighty grateful to a subscriber who'll recap it for those of us who don't.

From the Edmonton Sun article:Wow, that is totally correct. I view the ganging-up on Stacie as just that - venomus and mean. Not that I think she wasn't a little kooky, or that she had a shot at winning, but they were just mean to her.

Magic eight ball has all the answers on 'The Apprentice' WCNC. Free registration. I'm thinking this twit has no clue. Gah. I just hope he's not an actual native North Carolinian.

Has anyone seen or heard the Donald anywhere this morning? I am curious to see what he has to say about last nights show? I wonder if he still thinks he made the right choice after watching the first 2 episodes.

From the EW article;


I say people should buy Subway and leave them in front of Trump Tower in protest. Nice big smelly pile of sandwiches.

The People article has no new information. No interview. Just a bare-bones recap of the show, and say that Trump fired her for being a "loose cannon and a liability."

The last two paragraphs focus on Trump's financial problems ("Stacy isn't Trump's only liability"), citing the NYT article goobaletta linked earlier about the collapse of Trump's deal with Credit Suisse First Boston.

edited because I just knew goobaletta would have posted the NYT link already -- and I was right. you're so good!!

Thanks, mswestern. I appreciate your effort. (ETA: Aw shucks. Now I'm blushing!)

Layla823, I haven't seen or heard TD anywhere this morning. He'll comment via the NY Post on Sunday more than likely. I did see him on Carson Daly last night and as it was taped before the show aired, he didn't say anything pertinent. All he did pretty much was snark on Mark Cuban.

Does anyone know if there's any way to watch it online? I'd really like to see it if it's possible and I missed it by a half-hour this morning.

Never mind. I found it here. You just click "Launch" under Stacie's picture.

Minty fresh Stacie J gets squeezed. TV Barn

Good, you found the link. I was just about to post it, DMW_SFU.

Don't know if this has been covered much before, I just read Sammy S's recap of Episode 3 on the Yahoo! site and he's not only absolutely hilarious (the Roman Empire comments had me laughing right here at my desk) but insightful too. He probably saw parallels between himself and Stacie and made those points subtly--and I also think that Apex is going to be in trouble if they assume they're on the winning track just because they got rid of the team outcast--and with flair. It makes me wonder another thing: how come no publisher wanted to take a run with his book that was called A $1,000 CUP OF LEMONADE or something like that? If it was as much fun to read as his recaps, someone missed out on a good tome to publish.

Stacie is going to be on the Wendy Williams radio show this afternoon. She's either going to be on during the 3 o'clock hour (advice hour) or 4 o'clock (the hour of truth). I think it's 4.

You can listen to the live broadcast @ Wbls.com

DolphinFan, can you link the Sam recap? I've been hunting all over Yahoo and I can't find it because me am inept, apparently.

I'd also love to see his recap of Episode 2 and see if he crows about the Baldford being axed. It wasn't REALLY his giving up the immunity, of course, that got him canned, it was being bald.

Here you go, Rai. Sam's commentary for Episode 3.

DolphinFan, there's been a little discussion about Sam's comments in his thread the past couple of weeks and also in the episode threads.

Hee! "Trumpus Ego Erectus." I like that Sam!

Best quote from Sam's comments:
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Motley Fool's review.

Inc.com's blog review of Episode 3.

The Donald is in it for The Drama - Firings of Stacie, Bradford were undeserved. MSNBC Commentary.

New Crest Flavor Gets TV/Online Treatment ClickZ News Marketing analysis of last night's task - full of business jargon. For the true diehard.

Did Trump Make a Legal Goof In Firing Stacie J? eMediaWire It's essentially a press release that analyzes last night's events in terms of discrimination law that comes from a law firm in Maryland specializing in just that.

'Apprentice' runner-up a hit at UNI. The Courier, IA All about Kwame's talk, "Lessons from the Boardroom", at the University of Northern Iowa.

If anyone would like to see Stacie's interview on the Today show, click here. Click on the video arrow until her video comes up and then launch it.

Whoops! Almost didn't pimp Gael's piece at MSNBC about this week's episode. CLICK HERE for her article.

Thanks goobaletta!

From the MSNBC article above (which is an excellent evaluation of the situation):


Hee hee.

And this would be really funny if it weren't so true. Oh, who am I kidding? It's still plenty funny:

Heh. I love that last sentence.

And re: Stacie J.

Thanks very much for the link to the Stacie J. interview, Girlsogroovy. For whatever reason my DVR went on strike and didn't tape it.

MSNBC.com is running ads for Crest, or is it for the Apprentice, letting you submit your own marketing plan for Crest Vanilla toothpaste. The winner gets to go to the Apprentice Finale. In a move too-close-to-be-a-coincidence, they placed the ad on a page with a review for NBC's Emmy broadcast written by Linda Holmes (aka Miss Alli).

Great writing by Miss Alli, of course, as always.

update: These Crest/Apprentice ads contest things are now here on TWoP. Is this media? I'm all confused.

Heh. That ad campaign/contest just tells me that P&G was roundly unimpressed with the results of *both* teams.

FWIW, Omarosa's commentary for both episodes 2 and 3 is now live on NBC.com.
Here's the link.

The sponsors don't expect to get real/successful campaigns from the candidates. P & G paid the show $50,000 for product placement, so no matter how either team decided to promote the new flavor, the contest would still have been held.

Obviously that wasn't going to be the whole ad push, but the fact that people at P&G probably were sitting around going, "damn, everyday Americans could do better than this!", thus the contest which is thinly veiled as "Do something better than The Apprentice Wannabes" was born. That's what I was getting at.

Plus, I bet the folks at Mattel are still hoarse from yelling "neener, neener" in the general direction of P&G.

Thanks, NYCynthia. I'd given up looking for O's comments.

ETA: NBCUMV has posted nearly two full pages of photos from the Crest task. CLICK HERE? Warning! Close-up of Piazza brushing his teeth. Ew.

ETA part deux: Yeah, the Watercooler's been linked to many times since early last season by many different folks. I didn't link to it today because there were so many articles and other reviews that it completely slipped my mind. Good thinking to mention it though. Also, on Monday TVGO Insider should have an interview with Stacie J., Tuesday at the latest, if they follow their usual pattern.

Heh, that link has a really unflattering picture of Boyfriend Raj.

I don't think we've linked to this before, but TV Guide online has a commentary that's kinda entertaining. It's called The Watercooler.

Richmond Times-Dispatch recap/review.

Stacie Jones Upchurch is "brushed" off as third boot from 'The Apprentice 2' Reality TV World.

Holy shit, this is a first. On all three polls in the Richmond Times Dispatch article...the results were 100% for one particular choice.

I love how the second article terms this: "supposed marketing executive Maria Boren".

Does Gawker.com count as media? Cause here is a brief mention of Baldfired and Smeagol as seen-about-town. Scroll way down to the piece underneath the one about Moby.

I get a huge kick out of the disclaimer at the end of each of her commentaries: "Comments may have been edited".

You just know what she's turning in is barely coherent, and some poor NBC copywriter is being forced to make it fit for publication.

oops. double post.

Good God! I agree with Omarosa about Stacie's firing and Andy's insurance scheme. I guess next hell will freeze over and the Cubs will win the World Series.

I looked through the thread a bit, but I can't seem to find if there's any mention of this Entertainment Weekly thing I heard about. Apparently, in the boardroom next week, (slightly spoilerish, so am tagging) Bill goes asshole and even Carolyn and Trump are all "W-T-F, mate?" at him. I have no idea what context this is in or what it is. A friend told me in passing and I really didn't get an elaboration. All I know is that it's in a recent issue of Entertainment Weekly.

OOOH! Boyfriend Bill gets mad! I bet he's cute when he's mad. Do you think that he makes Ivana cry?

If that wench doesn't get fired soon, I'm gonna cry!

Maybe Bill goes off because he realizes he might have a salary, but he don't got no job.

Apparently, Bill was hard on everyone. Entertainment Weekly quoted a member from both team claiming that Bill was very serious and critical of them. So he was equally hard and more snipy than ever. Just imagine how Katrina felt when Bill was demanding when Katrina is going to clean up the office in Golf Club (and then times that by 5).

Hey, kids! Guess which fat-headed billionaire is on the cover of TV Guide (October 3-9)? Sadly, even though the show may have jumped the shark, Trump made the cover, flanked by two mental patients in Maria and Raj. Like Raj would be on the cover if he didn't have the cane, the bow ties, and the warship fetish. Plus side? It's not a mogul wank cover like last time with Trump and a not-quite-dressed-for-The Boardroom Omarosa and another Protege lady (Heidi? I don't remember).

There's also a sidebar with Boyfriend Bill...and he's gonna be tough on the newbies.Here's hopin', right?

I heard somewhere else (on TV, I think--sorry, can't be more specific) that even Boyfriend Bill admits that he was a little tougher on the candidates than he meant to be. That should be interesting. Hope we get to see all of it.

Not that it matters, but I believe the other contestant from season 1 who was in a state of semi-dress on the cover of TV Guide with Trumpy and O was Ereka.

Slim pickings thus far. I figure since the next episode is going to be shown on Wednesday that the usual Tuesday/Wednesday reviews may come out a day early. At least that's what I'm hoping.

The Black Enterprise commentary for Week 3 isn't up yet. It's on my radar, so don't lose faith.

LEADERS ARE BORN, BUT NOT WEIRD NY Post Make sure you read to the very end. *insert eyeroll here*

Kwame Jackson hires on to speak for life insurance Charlotte Observer. Free registration.

"You're aboard!" San Francisco Chronicle. Go to the 7th paragraph. Here's the link you want next. Trust me.

Oh, my dear Lord ... that's just ... geez. The first thing I thought of when I read this was the Star Trek cruises. You buy a ticket and get to rub shoulders with John de Lancie ("Q"), Grace Lee Whitney ("Yeoman Rand"), and a lot of other second- and third-stringers from the show. That's one way to keep your "career" alive, I guess. I'll have to keep up on this one; I'm guessing that Jason, David and Bowie pass, Katrina and Ereka make "special guest appearances" at particular ports of call, and Assorama knocks over Tammy and Kristi in her haste to get on board -- even though she wasn't invited.

So now I'm guessing that the preview with Jen C crying is because maybe Bill yelled at her. I thought it might be her that goes, but now, maybe not. I'll be keeping my fingers crossed that either Ivana or Maria get fired next week and Bill rips them a new one.