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Kelly Perdew beat out Bay Area lawyer Jennifer Massey in last night's 16 hour finale of The Apprentice. The fight for a position as one of Donald Trump's many lackeys ultimately came down to a battle of the bland versus the blonde. Bland won, muttered "I like Vegas, but give me the job in New York, so I can be closer to you, Lord Donald," and promptly fell asleep. Oh wait. That was US who fell asleep.
What should have been an exciting finale full of spit and vinegar in the boardroom, instead turned into an endless series of "spontaneous" "Kelly is the greatest," and "Jennifer, booo!" comments from, seriously, hundreds of the Lincoln Center audience members. We were not fans of Jennifer throughout the series (did she really ever DO anything? And remember when she took credit for Ivana's work on the Levi's project?!) but by the end of the evening, even we were feeling sorry for her. However, we're sure she'll do fine. Her boss had nice things to say about her, so she probably still has a job. Or she can follow the lead of some of her former teammates and do something really classy.
As for the series itself, we think it's in serious danger. This season blew. Previews for the next season (premiering January 20th) promise that the new batch of hopefuls will be divided into "book smarts versus street smarts" teams. The nerds against the thugs! That could be good. But let's hope the contestants are more than just pretty faces this time, and that the tasks involve more than staged excuses for product placement and require, oh, we don't know, actual SKILLS and WORK.
And for the love of Christmas, keep the finale to two hours--at the most! And never, EVER, subject us to Regis again.
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I love how the spectre of dark-haired Jen's "anti-semetic" comments was brought up yet again.
Am I alone in thinking that what she said wasn't really all that bad? I mean, I'm a member of the tribe myself, and I was a only a teensy bit offended--this whole "getting fired from her real job" thing, along with constantly bringing it up again and again, just struck me as overkill.
Also: Any other fans of the show get nostalgia when Troy got to talk? I really liked the first season contestants much better. I wish they'd have afforded Kwame a chance to speak his mind as well -- I mean, what up with that? They got Troy, Amy, Omarosa, et. al. to talk, as well as audience members, and no one thought it appropriate for last year's runner up to have a moment on the mike?
Did I tell you guys I'm in a book group with Jen? We just all figured she had been too busy to make the meetings this summer, and then we found out she was going to be on the Apprentice 2. Huh!
The organizer of the book group suspected that Jen must have done fairly well in the game because they went out for coffee right when the show started and she told me, "I didn't want to ask her anything about it, but I did notice that Jen was wearing a very nice new Rolex watch."
If you want to join our book group, we're reading "The Great Fire" by Shirley Hazzard this month. (I also met Pamela at a friend's party; I'll tell you in person about meeting her.)
While the first season's cast were undoubtably a bunch of fame whores, I do agree that they were a hell of a lot better than this batch.
I was wondering about the lack of Kwame as well. It's not like they didn't have the TIME to talk to him!! Man. What a fiasco.
And Rita, I hope that when you met Pamela she was wearing a shirt.
....actually, come to think of it, I don't think she was -- it was a pool party.
I can't believe a pool party with an "Apprentice" wanabee did not warrant a post!! THIS is a story I want to hear!