It was on the season premiere. Cassidy made a big deal about Hatch talking over him and pushing him out of the way (and in all fairness, Hatch really was kind of a dick in that episode). Cassidy’s big mistake, though, was in the boardroom where he kept looking at Jose Canseco to jump in and defend him, coming off as a huge flake in the process, prompting Trump to fire him.
NBC doesn’t have original programming for Sat. Nights. they show repeats of Law and Oderr SVU and Los Angeles.
Okay, I Googled Lisa Rinna before and after…
What the FUCK was she thinking?!? She was an adorable, cute young woman WITH lips. (I get people without lips or butts overdoing it.) But even the pic on the right looks fairly normal. It looks like a wasp stung her lips last night. And that’s not a compliment.
Something tells me that if John Rich hadn’t won, we would have been treated to a Nice Guy goes Crazy scene. Dude was on fire for St. Jude!
Yeah at some point I think (presumably prior to the mid-90s when she was doing Melrose Place, as that’s when I first saw her) she got lip surgery that made her look like the Joker. A couple of years ago she got it corrected (or at least tried to). Still doesn’t look great, but it’s a lot better than what it was.
Remember that Superbowl commercial, with the guy on a job interview? Everytime he would talk, the stain on his shirt would also talk. The part when Star was stopping and starting her speech, trying to get her piece out, only to have Nene insist on trying to also talk reminded me of that commercial.
The $250K check last night was from Dollar General, according to his EW interview with Dalton Ross.
If they hadn’t made an exception and let John Rich’s check go to his charity on humungo episode, even though he lost, Marlee would have taken a big crap all over his season.
I have to confess, Nene does not offend me anywhere near as much as Star. Nene is transparent, from what I gathered on this season–she is also overreactive, pouty, volatile, and has serious bouts of diarrhea of the mouth. But she is decidedly not dissembling who she is. Star, meanwhile, is Nene’s educated mirror image. She is just as vindictive and nasty, but she has deluded herself that because she has an expanded vocabulary and a degree, she isn’t as ugly a person on the inside as Nene appears to be on the outside (um…in behavior). Additionally, she is deceitful and manipulative, and this makes her the far uglier beast IMO.
I don’t exactly want to become BFFs with Nene, but I’d much rather be in her company than Star’s.
I agree with you, Ruffian.
So what charity would everyone play for if you could be on (Non-)Celebrity Apprentice? There are a lot of local organizations that I support, but I think I’d have to disappoint them and go with something nationally recognized. I’ve raised money for DonorsChoose.org before, and they’ve been getting very popular recently (Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel recently had a fundraising contest between themselves, and Oprah named them one of her favorite charities to donate to). I think even an average schmoe could do well in a fundraising challenge like that (certainly better than Richard Hatch did).
I just watched the finale last night. Wow, John Rich’s 7UP commercial was awesome. Dee Snider made it awesome, of course, but let’s not forget that the concept was actually McGrath’s.
Anyway, if I were playing for a charity it would probably be a big, nationally recognized one. Maybe the Human Fund.
As far as charity that is nationally known, St Jude is my charity of choice. I make a substantial donation (for me) every year.
I support some local charities as well.
If I was doing a Celebrity Apprentice type thing, and St Jude was ‘disqualified’ I would go for a well known charity with little overhead and administrative expense.
It looked like the SOP for C.A. episode (non-fundraiser) is a 20K donation to the PM’s manager and then a matching donation from the corporate sponsor.
That seems cheap to me.
The C.A. is 2 hour show (sometimes 3 hrs) on a national TV network, in primetime.
I think the average win on Jeopardy! (1/2 show, not on primetime) is more about 20K plus 3K (total) going to 2nd and 3rd.
I would like to see the balance sheet of CA compared to Jeopardy! and even Wheel of Fortune.
Agreed, they’re both vile. And delusional.
But I do think that Nene dissembles. “Star’s smarter than I am - waaaaah! She’s using her brains! I don’t have brains! Unfair!”
Finally watched it and I think overall Trump made the right decision. I think JR’s Commercial and Can were better and Merlee’s presentation and event wass better, so ti was a wash. But throughout the season JR was clearly the best, I can’t remember a single week when he was not one of the best people on his team. On the other hand fact Marlee should have been fired for the OnStar task, to be honest.
I do have a local charity which I am very fond of, but in terms of national Charities I would probabbly go with Amenesty International. but I wouldn’t be surprised if they were asked to pick fairly “neutral” charities. In that case I woudl probably go with City of Hope.
Hahaaaa! Now bring yo’ street game, bitch!
I can’t believe it took me this long to remember something else I meant to say.
John Rich was getting all worked up about the Def Leppard manager. He suggested on the phone having someone play a kick drum so he could introduce them. The manager balked on the phone, John had a little fit about “stupid manager, this is for charity” blah blah. He made the comment about “bowing up” if he had to and not getting pushed around, he’s a performer and knows their games. Jump to day of, thd band shows up, he gives an impassioned plea about St Jude and charity to the puzzled looks of the Def Leppard guys (“why is he going on about this?”), then reiterates his desire for a kick drum. So what happens? The manager guy says the same thing about how it would detract from their entrance and whatnot, but that maybe John could do it himself on the stage, so John ends up stomping his boot on stage to give the beat, and says he likes it. Then he says how he really felt a connection to them and that they really understood what it meant. Hey John, you really showed them Def Leppard guys how tough you are by doing exactly what they wanted. Way to bow up. :rolleyes:
Irishman, I had the same thought as you when I watched the episode. I can only guess than John Rich decided (probably correctly) that it wasn’t a battle that was really worth fighting.
My thoughts exactly. But what was the deal with Def Leppard? Why were they being so weird about it? They didn’t want to be connected to his charity or to 7UP or something? I didn’t get that. And their deer-in-headlights faces when JR asked if they ever heard of St. Jude…come on, guys. I love Def Leppard but I thought they acted kinda childish.
Why would a bunch of British guys know anything about a hospital in Memphis? Can you name one hospital in the UK?
I would assume they’ve spent enough time in the US to see a St. Jude commercial or two. Some of them probably even live in the US.
Indeed, Phill Collen and Vivian Campbell both currently live in the US.
Oh, he was totally in the wrong. The band was perfectly right to insist they not play the kick drum to introduce themselves. He got all riled up at the band manager for resisting his idea, and being stressed at the time he got testy and angry. The next day when he actually met with them, he had the chance to proselytize about his charity, which made him feel better, and the band was polite in how they stuck to their point and offered an alternative that worked just as well for what JR wanted to accomplish, which was to make a beat so he could chant some tiny intro with the crowd clapping a rhythym, to get the crowd involved.
But what stuck out was his attitude the day before about how bad ass he was, and then the day of he folded like a paper doll, and yet was saying how he thought they really had a connection and really understood.
This was a paying gig for Def Leppard. 7-Up hired them to do the launch party, and they fulfilled their obligations properly. The fact that the guy running the show was a contestant on a game show and playing for a charity that they may or may not have ever heard of was not really important to them.