“Yeah. The look on the executives’ faces was a combination of stoicism and confusion. Stoi-fusion is what we created. Uh, that’s not good.”
Brett Michaels, celebrity contestant, on last night’s Celebrity Apprentice after giving their project presentation to some mucky-muck executives.
Uhm, I’m kind of loving him. I’m really watching this show only for Brett Michaels now. If he leaves, my interest will poof into the ether.
Is it me or is he kind of funny and weirdly lovable?
He, too, is my favorite guy on the show, though I also like Holly Robinson Peete. Not only is he funny and lovable, but he’s also the sharpest and most creative on his team.
My wife and I were in tears when he was crying at the prospect of his daughter having type 1 diabetes. We kind of know what he was going through as my then 6 year-old daughter was diagnosed with the same disease.
I think, we’ll also stop watching the show when (if) he gets kicked off.
He’s kinda like the sad puppy in the store window you want to take home with you. I want more Cyndi!
Cyndi is kind of nuts, don’t you think? And I’ve never seen a more malingering bunch of stars in my life. I think The Donald is rightly getting irritated at all the babies.
JFH — Although doesn’t HRP seem like bit of a beyotch? I don’t know. Hate to throw my own sex under the bus or cram her into that beyotch stereotype, but she’s rubbing me the wrong way, a bit. She’s a lot more cantankerous than she ever seemed to me to be, so maybe I’m having a disconnect there. She’s feisty, but I think she’s a bit abrasive sometimes, too.
I liked how Donald fired the Victoria’s Secret model last night and as she was leaving, he basically turned to Ivanka and said, “Well, that was easy.”
Hahahahahaha.
The woman really DID have no fire.
This crew has been a little harder for me to get into than the first crew with Piers Morgan, Trace Adkins, et als. Trace was a hoot, dealing with (I think it was) the Backstreet Boys in the finale, playing stage manager. “So there ah ahm gettin’ WHEATgrass juice. An’ then ah go out and buy eyeliner’n black nail polish… NOT fer one of mah dawters… NOT fer mah wahfe… fer some DUDE.” BWHAHAHAHAHAHA! Just an everyman “life’s funny that way” tone of voice. So much fun.
This year, I agree, love Brett Michaels. Cyndi is completely kooky. I have a soft spot in my heart for the Straw, who has made some horrible decisions and overcome a lot of crap luck on top of it. I think he can be in the final three.
tracey,
I’ve had a crush on HRP since “21 Jump Street”* and that was only reinforced when she was in “Hanging with Mr. Cooper” and “For Your Love” a grossly under-rated show that was fortunately picked up by the WB after canceled by NBC after only a few episodes.
So I COULD be blinded by the hypnotic power she has over me, but I’d like to think I can be more objective. I don’t see her as so much of a beyotch as someone that knows business and knows a business objective. She’s on the show to get money for autism charities and if she has to be blunt and harsh (not cantankerous IMHO) to meet that objective she will. That said, feisty, but abrasive, is not far off of my opinion.
Then again, HRP could merely be acting the role of what Trump admires in a business person. If so (and both you and I “seemed to be” much nicer than her character on this show), she’s playing a brilliant game. HRP by all rights should have been fired last night. She was project manager, it was her vision for the commercial and her decision to cut the 30 sec video to a 10 sec spot instead of doing something different… IT WAS ALL HER, and yet he fired the VS model who did a GREAT job the week before.
JFH — /So I COULD be blinded by the hypnotic power she has over me/
Hahahahahaha. I think that’s it, JFH. She doesn’t have that power over me. But you’re right. She fought for it last night or finessed it somehow and managed to stay in the game. Of course, Trump keeps people in the game who are “good TV” and so VS Betty had to go. Boring.
NF — Oh, yeah. I remember that with Trace Adkins. He WAS hilarious. He did not want to put up with ANY crap.
And do you mean Darryl Strawberry?
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That dude quit, like, 2 weeks ago.
Cyndi is nuts, I think that’s why I like her.
I am looking forward to the pending faceoff between HRP and the wrestling hottie. There is a battle brewing there I can feel it. Hissss! Rreowww!
And this season is missing its Piers.
I saw something like the first ten minutes and the last ten minutes of last night’s show–pretty much what everybody said: ITA.
Brian nailed it with the “sad puppy” ID on Bret. Sad puppy with worms, fleas, mange.
Kate – owch! Hahahahaha, but owch!
Tracey – you did warn me, but I over-scrolled. Had no idea! It must have happened the week we were out of state. Terrific, I mushed the poor guy. My Sports Jinx powers apparently also operate at full-force against sports figures in other pursuits. Sorry, Darryl!
So I COULD be blinded by the hypnotic power she has over me
So… Every year my “cousin-in-law” (my wife’s cousin’s husband) invites me to at least one Panthers game. Usually it’s when the Cowboys are in town, as I am a HUGE Dallas fan. A few years back (okay, it’s more like 7 years ago, but that’s still a few, right?), when Rodney Peete was the back-up QB for Carolina, HRP sang the Nation Anthem before the game.
My C-in-L typically invites me to games because I am a good fan in that I know all the players on both sides and watch the game intently unlike his wife or brothers-in-law who is easily distracted by other things than the game and don’t appreciate the $349 he shells out for each of his four seats per game in the “club” section on the 47 yard line (Hey, I pay him back for the seat! I buy the first round of beer at 8.00 bucks a piece… a dollar more at the club level because you wait in SLIGHTLY shorter lines and stand on indoor/outdoor carpeting instead of concrete like the proletariat in the upper and lower sections… Of course that proletariat family of four would be lucky to escape an NFL game for under $250). So… imagine his surprise when after a great play I’m facing backwards, instead of the towards the field.
Him: “What the hell are you doing?!”
Me: “I heard a rumor outside the Coke suite (the door of which is next to the entrance we use to get to our seats and is directly below the owners box and the press box) that Holly Robinson is up there!”
Him: “You’re kidding, right?”
Me: (in a sing-song voice not much different than famous F-D chant of “Air Ball!”): “Holly, Holly!”
Him: ” ” (but his taciturn response meant “you’re really embarrassing me in front of all these bankers who I do business with that surround us)
Me: “Holly, Holly!”
Holly never poked her head out (despite the windows being open in the sky box and it was no less than 10-15 yards away)… but I KNOW IF SHE WAS THERE, she would’ve responded to me… ‘cus it’s HRP, and she knows what a fan I am…. uh, I’m kind of ashamed.
JFH — Okay. I change my opinion. You are TOTALLY blinded by her hypnotic power over you.
“Holly, Holly!”
“Holly, Holly!”
Hahahhaha. That is insane.
I’m not watching the show this year, but are Bill Goldberg and Maria Kenellis still on the show? Being the wrestling fan I am, those were the folks I was hoping would do well.
Yes, Cullen, and doing quite well, especially Maria… she could go all the way!
Cullen — I don’t know wrestling at all, but I like that Goldberg dude.
NF — ACK! Sorry! I ruined it for you!!
Naaaah. I’ll probably watch it anyway if it’s still on the DVR.
Actually kind of reminds me (of all things) of an episode of The Parenthood, where the Dad, Robert Townsend, is desperately trying to get his son’s attention at a movie theater. He gets shushed and the ushers drag him out, but as he goes, he yells,
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“Norman Bates is his own mother! HA!”
Cracks me up every time.