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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Wednesday, February 22, 2006 - 11:23 am
Blah, blah, blah, blame, blame, blame, Sincerely, Donald J. Trump,Jr. Sincerely? Sincerely? Why would anyone sign a diatribe like that, "sincerely?" <ka> Regardless of whose fault the failure of the show was, to get as personal as he did and to compare it in anyway to the IM Clone thing..<ka> I agree that Alexis was of no value to the show, and that Martha's thank-you notes were dumb. Trump thinks he is some handsome and dynamic personality on his show, when in fact, he is as exciting as watching paint dry. I do like his show, and I liked Martha's (with the exception of Alexis and thank-you notes), and I will still watch his for it's entertainment value. But...I hope his nasty letter hurts his show so much that it gets cancelled. GO MARTHA!
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Eeyoreslament
Member
07-20-2003
| Wednesday, February 22, 2006 - 12:25 pm
Oh snap. I liked Martha's show better than Trump's. This IS all about publicity. Trumps show is all about the latest gimmick. This season it's the stupid Olympian twist. Big deal. Give me Martha's snark any day!
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Wink
Member
10-06-2000
| Wednesday, February 22, 2006 - 3:20 pm
And Martha's hair.
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Wednesday, February 22, 2006 - 3:31 pm
lolol
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Babyjaxmom
Member
10-20-2002
| Wednesday, February 22, 2006 - 3:42 pm
Sincerely? Sincerely? Why would anyone sign a diatribe like that, "sincerely?" Because he's not only really mean, he's really most sincerely mean! Have to agree with him about Alexis, though. She really came off as being severely in her mother's shadow and having no personality of her own.
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Wednesday, February 22, 2006 - 3:56 pm
"As Coroner, I must aver I thoroughly examined her. And she's not only merely dead, She's really, most sincerely dead." - the Coroner The coroner kinda looks like Trump with that hair!

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Auntiemike
Member
09-17-2001
| Wednesday, February 22, 2006 - 4:08 pm
As I read your post, Hukdonreality, that very film and scene was on my TV, being watched by my 6 year old!!!!! How amazing!
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Wednesday, February 22, 2006 - 4:14 pm
I KNOW, I was peeking in your window. In case you haven't heard, I'm the resident window peeker around here...

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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Wednesday, February 22, 2006 - 5:55 pm
I am SOOOO glad I'm not the only one who had the Wizard song running through their heads w/ the "most sincerely mean" line. 
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Wednesday, February 22, 2006 - 6:31 pm
Y'know... this is much ado about nothing. According to everyone, including Martha, her show was intended to be on for only one season. Only one MS Apprentice. So what's the big deal?
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Wednesday, February 22, 2006 - 6:38 pm
I think it's the intensity of Donald's letter that's the biggest deal. (Not that the show was good or bad...)
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Oregonguy
Member
02-12-2006
| Wednesday, February 22, 2006 - 7:05 pm
donald blasts martha a week b4 his show premieres. looks like a publicity stunt on donalds part. he may be going overboard and i think martha isnt in on it.
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Curlyq
Member
07-10-2002
| Wednesday, February 22, 2006 - 7:35 pm
Did you all read that P.S. where he threatened her with destruction via a syndicated daytime show of his own? Talk about intensity. He forgot to add "...And your little dogs, too!" Can you just imagine Trump on a daytime show? Yeah, that would surely pull Martha's viewers and kill her ratings. What planet is he living on? What's most amusing is watching all the talk show hosts try to discuss this without offending Trump, who they seem to be afraid of. Regis Philbin who is enamored with him, responded by wondering what Martha was thinking when she made her comments to Newsweek. Kelly Ripa tried to smooth it over by supposing Newsweek didn't convey Martha's tone properly, and maybe she was just joking. If I had my own show, I would've wondered aloud why Trump's letter didn't end up in Martha's mailbox rather than in the newspaper, and whether Trump feared people would forget to watch him in his new time slot. The bottom line is that Martha is right. The shows both tanked because he insisted on running them both at the same time rather than taking turns. He could've had both shows doing very well one at a time, and The Apprentice would've been running every week without any breaks. Why did he feel the need to put both shows on in the fall with a long break in the winter? As one of the producers, he should definitely take responsibility for any failure. Why didn't he get involved in the production? If he believed the show was bad from the first episode, why didn't he get involved in improving it? A PM in the boardroom would have to answer these questions. He can talk about Alexis all he wants, but that doesn't explain why his ratings also fell. People criticized her performance, but I doubt anyone actually refused to watch because of her. As for his claim that he was supportive, all I remember hearing at the time was him complaining that her show was ruining his ratings. He really should think twice before writing letters with personal attacks like that. There are far too many areas of his life that lend themselves to brutal ridicule.
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Jhezzie
Member
07-05-2001
| Thursday, February 23, 2006 - 12:22 am
Are you kidding? The Donald knows just how to get everyone all worked up, just in time to watch the new season of The Apprentice, starting on Monday. He really did take some cheap shots, though, and I believe Mark Burnett should be the target of The Donald's attack. He admits, in the current Newsweek, that, indeed, dumping The Donald was suggested. Her CEO, the guy with the unlit cigar, discussed the meeting this morning on Imus. He was at the meeting with Burnett and Martha,and he said Burnett told her that she would be firing Trump, and that Trump didn't know yet. So, Burnett stabbed The Donald in the back, not Martha. Besides, this is all a publicity stunt for him. Jerk. Hopefully, he will have the grace to apologize. Oh well. Martha can cry all the way to the bank. From Businessweek Online:FEB. 22 3:30 P.M. ET Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc. on Wednesday posted a fourth-quarter profit, boosted by a sharp rebound in advertising revenue at its flagship Martha Stewart Living magazine. The results beat Wall Street estimates and signaled that the brand's turnaround was in full swing. Investors were pleased, and shares rose $1.82, or 11 percent, to $18.31 in afternoon trading on the New York Stock Exchange, where they have traded in a 52-week range of $16.28 to $37.45.
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Eeyoreslament
Member
07-20-2003
| Thursday, February 23, 2006 - 12:29 am
LOL, I'm still remembering one of the contestants asking her on the show if she had any business of stock advice. HAHAHA!!! 
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Friday, February 24, 2006 - 5:58 am
Personally, I thought the Martha show was too much like Trump's Apprentice. They even had similar tasks. I think the show failed due to DT's attempt to clone HIS show. I liked Martha's approach. I also think some of her changes were stolen by DT later in his Apprentice show...like her group firings and MS choosing who will come back to the boardroom!!! I felt that MS did too good of a job and DT felt threatened. I'd love to see MS bring back WICKEDLY PERFECT!! (yep, here I go again about that old show!!)
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Friday, February 24, 2006 - 12:57 pm
Marcella was no Martha's daily show today. It's been international cuisine week and Marcella was on to make what amounted to pork tacos: marinated pork, cooked in banana leaves inside that great Martha tan Le Creuset dutch oven....served on a tortilla with pickled onions and avacados. Marcella also made a tuna ceviche that looked pretty good, but she just doesn't have "it." She doesn't jump off the TV screen. And she made Martha look like a giant. It's so funny that Martha STILL can't say her last name and almost refuses to allow Spanish words to pass her tongue. Marcella said she teaches her students "no pasa nada" and Martha was as unconcerned as possible about the whole thing. LOL.
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Friday, February 24, 2006 - 1:11 pm
I would love to see Martha head up a show like Wickedly Perfect.
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Alisons
Member
01-10-2003
| Friday, February 24, 2006 - 1:42 pm
Martha would be great as the judge on Wickedly Perfect. I bet she could snark on some of those projects really well, too! It is almost like Trump himself is pregnant and overcome by hormones rather than Melania. It never fails to amaze me how you find people who have been successful like Trump who still do not have enough sense of self to let criticism/negative comments go by. I am sure it hurt his ego to have Martha make those comments but he really just should have brushed it off. Now he looks very foolish, IMO.
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Babyboo
Member
06-16-2003
| Friday, February 24, 2006 - 4:58 pm
I think Martha Stewart Apprentice failed because it just plain stunk, JMHO.
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Jhezzie
Member
07-05-2001
| Saturday, February 25, 2006 - 2:02 am
The show would have been better if it was tailored to Martha and her company, instead of the carbon-copyness of the original show. As for the Donald, he's really gone over the line. A publicity stunt is one thing, but be for real. I'm turned off enough by this whole thing, that I don't think I will be watching this season. Especially if it's opposite "24". No way am I bailing on "24"!
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Monday, February 27, 2006 - 8:42 am
I had to laugh... I have on Regis and Kelly and with Trump as the first guest. He is STILL getting in cheap shots at Martha..LOL It was mild, but somehow I knew he couldn't let the appearance go by without some kind of Martha comment. He just had to mention how bad her ratings were.
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Ketchuplover
Member
08-30-2000
| Monday, February 27, 2006 - 5:34 pm
His ratings are through the roof!!!!!!!!!! Unfortunately they're headed into the building!!!!!!! I like exclamation points !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Puzzled
Member
08-27-2001
| Tuesday, February 28, 2006 - 5:17 pm
Apprentice came in fourth--who's DT going to blame for that?
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Jhezzie
Member
07-05-2001
| Tuesday, February 28, 2006 - 6:13 pm
Here's the awful truth. LOL! http://http://tinyurl.com/l3q0
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Puzzled
Member
08-27-2001
| Wednesday, March 01, 2006 - 11:55 am
The challenges are just same-o, same-o. Who really cares about selling/upgrading membership to Sam's club, for heaven's sake? Then, the "winning" team sold, oh, wow, three more memberships. How exciting. I think the in-store employees could have done just as well. The blimps were just unnecessary. You can't even read the messages on them, especially from your car. How many times have we seen those blimps and hadn't a clue what they were there for, or even cared? Then, too, the more I see of DT, the more egotistical and annoying he becomes. Hahaha--I wonder how many MS devotees he lost with his non-stop grade-school insults?
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Cablejockey
Member
12-27-2001
| Sunday, March 12, 2006 - 8:55 am
I was watching Sunday Morning on CBS today. They were interviewing columnist Liz Smith, and when asked about enemies she has made over the years, Donald Trump's name came up. Apparently Liz had taken Trump's ex-wife Ivana's side in the divorce and Trump hated her for it. He threatened to buy the paper she worked at just fire her and bad mouthed her everywhere he could!
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