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Celebrity Apprentice 2: It’s A Trump Train Wreck
Commentary by RTVC Staff Writer Donna Emery
May 11, 2009
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This week on the Celebrity Apprentice, the finalists and their teams got treated to an amazing circus performance.
And they also went to Cirque de Soleil.
In order to explain the outcome of this year’s Celebrity Apprentice, I have to think that this show somehow happens in a parallel universe. It’s Trumpland, folks, where one person with a drinking problem (Dennis) is treated like an honored guest and another (Khloe) is fired for taking accountability for hers.
In Trumpland, the big guy hates quitters – unless they are Joan Rivers. In this land, we watched Annie Duke work hard every week and legitimately earn a spot in the Final Two. She was this year’s Piers Morgan and she knew how to play this game. Joan Rivers, on the other hand, did a remarkable but comparably second-rate job. She also lost her temper at the drop of the hat. According to any previous year’s standards, this game should have been won by Annie. But, in Trumpland, the game changes when the big guy says so.
My only question is: just when did this game change?
There are many good things I can sincerely say about Joan Rivers. She does have amazing energy for a woman her age. I’m 20 years younger and I don’t have her energy. She has built her reputation as a comedienne and in many other areas. She deserves the respect she has earned as a veteran performer and she’s a Name.
Many of the things Joan did during this season were very good. In this final task, I admit her team’s space was better decorated. She deserved to win props in that department and in the one for branding. Whoever came up with the picture frame at the entrance deserves major kudos. And Melissa’s idea for tying in the “Easy Share” idea to the frames was really good. Herschel had a great idea of his own: to sell the tickets to a charity donor.
But to say her event had more celebrities was questionable. Was the Donald really counting those impersonators? I don’t agree that Joan’s team had more. If she really “won” that category with those faux celebs, I call foul play.
But, to be honest, I do anyway.
For all Annie’s talk about a classy event, I didn’t think her room was really well decorated. I didn’t see Tom and Dennis sell very many tickets to the crowd, so I wonder if they came up with a similar idea to sell the tickets to a donor. Maybe one of them was the donor. Neither of them did very much else, in comparison to Annie and Brande.
As I go over the season, I have to say I am still a bit mystified at Trump’s choice. The only way it makes sense is if Joan Rivers was his choice all along.
I know Trump is fickle, but over the years he’s been consistent in certain aspects. He hates quitters. Witness Tionne’s unfair ousting. (By the way, where was Tionne tonight – not to mention Khloe and Natalie?) He even hates people who suggest they might be quitting and/or thinking of quitting. So why did he allow Joan to return to the show?
Piers Morgan, last year’s Apprentice asked Joan.....
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