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Maris
Member
03-28-2002
| Friday, March 26, 2004 - 6:10 am
Based on this weeks competition, Amy should have gone. I don't understand why Katrina didnt speak up more when the Donald asked whose idea it was for the car rental. Also Amy and this whole "crush" thing is begining to nauseate me. I mean come on, these people are in their twenties and they are talking about "crushes". I would fire her just for that. It sounds like Junior High schoolers talking. I agree with lovedana that Nick will be gone next. It seems like the editors build up for a week or two leading up to the firing. Nick no longer seems to be a favorite son and Amy is beginning to look tarnished. My money is on Bill and Kwame as final two. Then again, I am sitting at the bottom of puttergirl's game so what do I know.
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Friday, March 26, 2004 - 7:02 am
I agree the car rental was so lame. I would have asked the dealership to donate the car in trade for free advertising. Charities, heck, I have done it for school auctions do this all the time. Versacorp was very smart to aim for the high rollers. The problem with the voucher (and alot of casinos do this already) is that the people will usually just play the $20, see what happens and then they go on. Most players who are going to gamble don't mess with coupons.
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Hotlantan
Member
08-09-2001
| Friday, March 26, 2004 - 7:42 am
<Katrina> was on the Today Show this morning, and all she could talk about is how much she hates Amy. She was even more obsessively catty than Heidi was on every interview harping about how much she hated Carolyn! With Troy hating Bill and Amy & Nick caught up with each other (and the first six booties pretty much inconsequential), I'm really beginning to wonder when any of the contestants (besides Erika) even had time to hate Omarosa as much as the EPMB editing made it seem? One last thought: "Apprentice II starring Mini-DT" 
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Frogichik
Member
06-11-2002
| Friday, March 26, 2004 - 8:15 am
Puttergirl, I think they were given $2,000.00 as startup funds.
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Needmylifeback
Member
08-14-2000
| Friday, March 26, 2004 - 8:16 am
I usually don't contribute to the Apprentice thread because I usually watch it the following Wed...but, since I did watch last night... From the promo's there is a Guy who is going to be fired....I've noticed (and it may have been discussed before) that when DT fires a guy ...he does the hand gesture...when he fires a gal...he keeps his hands to himself....he uses the hand gesture in the promo.... I wasn't too thrilled with either team this time...Troy's southern gentleman act towards "The models" was downright condesending and dropped him down a lot in my book....he needed to be more focused on his project and not what the others were doing...they weren't getting many people out of their line...just wouldn't have happened.
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Friday, March 26, 2004 - 8:34 am
I think Kwame and Troy will be final 2. I think Nick gets fired. In promos Amy says to Nick if you would stop talking... Then when Donald fires the person he says..'you should have kept your mouth shut" I am so glad we got to see more of the friendship with Kwame and Troy! What an ass Bill was last nite AMy went way down in my book last nite. When DT asked whose idea it was Kat rolled her eyes in Amy's direction, not sure if DT saw it but the cameras zoomed in on it! LOL
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Friday, March 26, 2004 - 8:38 am
What happened to the older guy, Donald's assistant?
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Crazydog
Member
09-21-2001
| Friday, March 26, 2004 - 8:43 am
Donald's assistant, the older guy, was out on some kind of assignment. Or something like that. So Donald just brought in that other guy for this one task. I am thrilled that Katrina is gone. She was so negative and always was attacking other people. In the limo for her final words, all she could talk about was Nick and Amy, Amy and Nick, instead of what she learned about herself or how she grew. Even Omarosa had a graceful exit, thanking Trump for the opportunity and then being very classy in the limo. Katrina needs to get over it. I don't have a problem with Amy - I like her. The car rental was lame as lame can be, but it was the promotion of it that was the problem, not the end prize. Not seeing what's so special about Kwame. He's so boring.
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March
Member
10-02-2003
| Friday, March 26, 2004 - 9:01 am
Katrina had to have known that Amy was going to pick her to stay in the boardroom so I don't understand why she didn't say anything about Amy being the one who wanted to do the car rental promotion. The look on Nick's face - ha, he knew and was not going to open his mouth about it that was for sure. Don't piss off the person that can send you up stairs. Did not find that Amy handled herself very well inthe boardroom. Guess no one told her that DT likes you better when you own up to your mistakes. Read an article about The Apprentice in People and it said that the boardroom sessions are genuine. They only show a few minutes of it but the contestants have been known to lock horns for up to two hours. A note on Carolyn - She says that she wears the suits for the show because she needed to set a tone. Offscreen she favors sweaters and pants.
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Madelane
Member
08-20-2001
| Friday, March 26, 2004 - 9:18 am
Don't forget that the promos bear almost no resemblance to what actually happens. Last night I watched Katrina get fired then watched Will and Grace (on Tivo) and saw the promo again. It said, "someone's bad idea gets them fired" and showed The Donald saying, "that's a terrible idea, you're fired." Well, huh? He never said Katrina was fired for a particular idea. Plus, the part where he said "you're fired" was that same clip of the very first firing with the famous hand gesture and not the real one from last night's boardroom. The promos have used the same clip every week with the hand gesture. When he actually fires them, he changes it up each week. They edit it all together. The promos are misleading at best.
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Maris
Member
03-28-2002
| Friday, March 26, 2004 - 9:19 am
Carolyn always seems to wear that red jacket in the boardroom. Anyone else notice that?
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Friday, March 26, 2004 - 9:24 am
Another thought on why Amy picked Katrina to stay in the board room with her. Nick has been successful - perhaps she felt that Katrina was the weaker opponent so if she brought her to the board room she would have more of a chance to stay. I'm sure she felt a lot less secure about going to the board room with Nick. Katrina's personality worked against her in the board room...she couldn't help being catty. Keep your enemies close and your friends closer! I too thought they should have asked for a car to donate for free advertising. They aimed too low - a huge sin in the Donald's thinking. It was kind of fun to see Amy unravel a little. She has always been so self-confident and was becoming a little cocky - nice to see her shaken a bit. But watch out - she could be lethal from here on in. Why harp on the other team when they were escorting the "models" away...part of being a successful leader is that slight edge of intimidation mixed with charm. If that team couldn't control their employees that is their problem.
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Chief1
Member
08-18-2003
| Friday, March 26, 2004 - 9:24 am
Pamy, I think you're right about Troy and Kwame being in the final 2. With the drama going on between the others, I can't imagine DT wanting to select an apprentice who was caught up in drama. Seems to me, if you walk the straight and narrow, take chances from time to time, do your research, be a great leader (when tasked as PM), and be a great contributor of the team (when not PM), your chances are much better. I see this in Troy and Kwame. Even when they have "lost" and went to the boardroom, they owned up to their mistakes, instead of putting blame on others. Amy really disappointed me last night. She went down about a gazillion notches for her hypocrisy. Looks like several of us agree that, although she had a problem with Katrina using flirting, she "saved" Nick (ace up her sleeve) based on the flirting they share. Interestingly hypocritical. To top it off, she LIED in the boardroom, instead of admitting her decision was a mistake she could learn from. The board room discussion was very entertaining, though, as DT does his usual to fuel the fire (pardon the pun) between the contestants. He especially seemed to take great JOY in Amy finally failing at something, and finding herself unsafe in the boardroom, where others had been and knew all too well what it felt like. When he called her out about saving her so-called "boyfriend," she looked so flushed til I thought she would cry. IMHO, Amy is just a likeable person. I believe she's just been lucky enough to be on the winning teams so far. I can't remember many effective contributions she's made, other than the advertising from the previous episode (which she willingly took credit for). Even if the team she was on were to lose a competition, I don't think the PM would have taken her to the board room. We've seen several people taken to the boardroom, even when they contributed well to the team. Others were saved because they were liked. Katrina has been very stong in some areas, weak in others, as indicated with the real estate transaction. (And let's not forget that she was duped!) In this case, even though it was only Amy's first trip to the boardroom, she should have been fired. By it being her first trip, maybe that's why DT saved her. Nick seemed shocked that Amy chose someone else as her "strongest competitor," as I think he suspected that she and HE were the top 2. It must have been a cold slap in the face for him. It'll be intering to see how he processes this next.
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Friday, March 26, 2004 - 9:25 am
Oh, and Katrina's final remarks...she still doesn't get the point! She was still harping on Amy...look at yourself girl. Amy didn't get you fired - your own actions got you fired. Some people will never have a clue.
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Jan
Member
08-01-2000
| Friday, March 26, 2004 - 9:45 am
I just have to let off steam here. Why are the women contributing so heavily to the downfall of the other women!! Since the teams have no longer been split by gender, the women have protected the men and brought down the women! What is going on here. Why do we as women do this to each other? On another thread, Peepinagain said about The Apprentice:
quote: I'm shocked that at the moment they made the teams co-ed thats when all the women were Fired week after week. Together they were strong but divided they just went after each other. I remember one of the girls saying that she sent the 2 men on their team back up to the suite because they've been through enough going to the board room so she picked 2 women to go with her. I thought those men deserved to go that week and why do women feel they must protect the men!
I agree with her 100%. Why do we tend to do this?
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Kittystj
Member
08-10-2001
| Friday, March 26, 2004 - 9:59 am
Seeing Katrina on the Today Show, all I could think of was 'What the heck is she wearing? Bare shouders, mini skirt, super sexy shoes. Most unappropriate for a morning show.
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Legalboxer
Member
11-17-2003
| Friday, March 26, 2004 - 10:02 am
just had to add since i dont see it mentioned - how cool was that boy with troy- stopped him in his tracks by saying "dont sell what is already sold" - classic moment
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Kittystj
Member
08-10-2001
| Friday, March 26, 2004 - 10:03 am
Sorry, that should have been Inappropriate
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Zules
Member
08-21-2000
| Friday, March 26, 2004 - 10:08 am
I saw Katrina on the Today Show this morning too. I think this girl thinks way too much of her looks. She said she felt that she was cast as the "sex symbol" for the show and remember when she had that talk with Bill about her looks? So she's not taken seriously because she's too pretty? Puhleeeese! I think she's attractive but so are about a gazillion other women. Get over yourself Kat, you're not all that.
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Jan
Member
08-01-2000
| Friday, March 26, 2004 - 10:10 am
Kitty, you can actually edit your own post,if you want to in future, for up to 10 Minutes after you have posted. Just click on that little icon on the top of your post, the first of 4 (the one with the E, in it). YOu will then be asked to log in and you can edit it! You can only edit your own posts of course 
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Friday, March 26, 2004 - 10:13 am
Where are you guys all seeing that the car rental was Amy's idea? I rewatched the tape and it never shows anyone in particular coming up with that idea. What it does show is that Katrina was the one who negotiated on the phone with the car dealership guy. (And it never showed who's idea that was--only that Katrina was the one who called). Then we see K&A at the dealership. K is failing so A takes over and then the guy says it'll work for him. (responding to A saying that he'll get 12 hours of advertising) Never did they talk about the prize being a rental. So I do not think we should assume that the rental part was Amy's idea, even though it would be easy to assume that.
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Sbw
Member
08-09-2000
| Friday, March 26, 2004 - 10:18 am
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4602550/ These excerpts come from that article. NEW YORK - “Dateline NBC” plans roughly two hours of stories about “The Apprentice” surrounding its finale next month, including a profile of star Donald Trump. The full hour of “Dateline NBC” on April 14 will be devoted to a behind-the-scenes look at the boardroom game. The Trump profile will run April 16. About half of a two-hour “Dateline” that night will likely be about “The Apprentice,” he said.
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Friday, March 26, 2004 - 10:18 am
I agree, Kat was way too full of her "sex symbol" self on The Today show. Wearing that sleazy little outfit didn't do much for her either. And get over Amy already! And one more thing. I think this Amy/Nick relationship is being overdone. For crying out loud, have we seen so much as a kiss? I think they are trying to make something there that isn't.
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Rosie
Member
11-12-2003
| Friday, March 26, 2004 - 10:23 am
Thank you for mentioning the young boy's comment here. I loved it at the time but forgot about this morning. It was a priceless comment and really took the big boys by surprise too. I am still wondering why it took two guys to pick out a tiger. They should not have left Bill out of the loop like that.
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Peepinagain
Member
07-18-2002
| Friday, March 26, 2004 - 10:29 am
Car rental was Amy's idea. When Katrina was talking to him the car dealer guy said oh I can't give you one of those. (which to me sounded like a give-away) But when Amy took over she went a different way, unfortunately they didn't show what they talked about until it was done. All of a sudden is was a rental or $300! A $300 give-away in Atlantic City is such a joke!
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