19 February 2004

Tonight's episode of The Apprentice saw Tammy take the collar after her team lost the apartment renovation and rental challenge. It's been a long time coming for Tammy, who may not be getting enough oxygen on a day to day basis. Let's recap the highlights:

* When the other women of Protege were skipping food to sell lemonade, Tammy takes an hour lunch.
* Her negotiation with Carson Daly for the charity auction centers mostly about trying to arrange a golf outing with him and Tiger Woods.
* Her half-baked ideas irritate a contracting crew who is doing a lot of work for short money.
* And let's not forget her voice, which is kind of a Valley girl/mental patient combo.

Katrina was the project manager, and showed the skills she developed as a real estate pro by having the guy who runs his own cigar store negotiate the lease with prospective renters. Her defense is that she saw herself more as being in charge of the renovation, which I suppose only makes her project semi-manager.

The winning team (I don't even know which one it is anymore) had its own issues, primarily around Omarosa's use of a knock on the head to do no work outside of playing basketball with neighborhood children while everyone else was painting. The rest of the team didn't catch this, which is too bad. Then again, we've been promised an especially combative board room next week, so maybe it'll come back up.

Oh, and can I say that the rewards for the winning team have taken a bit of a nose dive? One week we're flying the winning team to Boston for dinner at Figs. The next week it's a picnic at Trump's Westchester estate. Granted, it's a nice house and a good looking spread. I suppose his continued use of Trump properties is tax-deductible somehow.

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