Celebrity Apprentice-Bridal Wars

This week's challenge is to sell 125 donate wedding dress and it looks like the girls might have a gender advantage on this one. Project heads are Brande and Tom Green. Jesse comes up with the Red Carpet Bridal theme. I must say that Jesse is pretty creative for a being a guy's guy. Melissa who is motherless this episode, gee how will she ever survive? calls on her friend Preston Bailey, a (gay, would I want a straight to plan my wedding? Not!), wedding planner to help set up the space, good thinking Melissa, you really do have your own brain! Tom Green makes the mistake of sending Dennis Rodman and Hershal on some bogus drumming up business escapade which takes the reluctant Hershal and Rodman to every bar in Manhattan. Good thinking Tom! Now I sort of missed this part where Rodman calls a friend who supplies them with a so called Russian model who barely spoke English. Hey Rodman, this is selling bride gowns, not mail order bride! Preston delivered in true wedding planner form and brought Melissa a truck load of beautiful flowers, while the guys space lacked any sort of ambience except for a few bottles of champagne. When it came to selling the next day, Dennis Rodman was no where to be found and Tom Green supposedly knocked on his room for 20 minutes. Dennis claimed he had something wrong with his eyes, ya like he can't open them cause he's hung over. Tom Green did what he does best, stand up comedy, which at this point is totally annoying.

In the board room, I was so proud of the Donald for putting Tom Green and Dennis Rodman on the hot seat, challenging Rodman's excuse for not answering the door when Green knocked on it and Green for not contributing one single thing (except bad comedy). I had to hold my breath when the figures were announced, because it did come down to the guys selling 22 dresses and the women selling 23 dresses. Yikes, that's too close, but the girls did manage to get their high rollers and sold a total of $103,000 to the guys $64,000.

Donald didn't even excuse the guys because he knew it was down to Rodman and Green, but how do you chose between a loser and a loser? Ultimately it was down to that old theory, fault lies in the PM or who is the most annoying, so Tom to his surprise was sent packing. Next week's episode looks enticing, with clips of Rodman going off on little Clint Black, didn't we know it was just a matter of time for him to go ballistic?-Single D

Amazing Race-Racing in Russia

Christi and Jodi are the first to leave at 12:34 pm, which was their first and probably their last time to step on the mat in a first place finish. Kisha and Jen leaving right on their heels at 12:36. No matter what the finish time, all racers bunch up at the train station for the 10:26pm departure of the Trans Siberian Railroad for an overnight leg to Russia. Sleeping cars are more idealized in the movies, like in "White Christmas", where Rosemary Clooney and Vera Ellen have a nice cozy sleeping car to Vermont, because American trains dim in comparison to European trains. Getting off in Russia, it looks cold, stark and very unfriendly. The roadblock, Russian bride or Russian snowplow. I totally thought it would be harder to find the bride in that apartment building, but it turned out to be relatively simple. Of course the stunt midgets chose to do the snowplows which were made for giants to handle and not midgets. Oh well, small guys, big machines. The detour was a traditional winter run through the snow in one's underwear. Gee go figure, did the producers tell the girls to wear their best underwear, except someone forgot to tell Kisha even to wear underwear. Umm, whose underwear did she borrow? As my mother always told me, wear clean underwear you never know what might happen, ya like running a race in -4 degrees. And go figure, all the girls on the teams have great figures especially Jen running in her thong and giving Russians an eyeful. Mike looked hilarious running with his stark white body and clumping army boots. It was a close race to the end, with Kisha and Jen coming in almost last because they couldn't drive the stick shift for nothing and Jodi and Christi's last place finish because they kept getting lost, lucked out because it was a non elimination round. They're not long for this race because the next leg, they will have to do both detours and for them completing one is a challenge let alone two.-Single D

Gone Country Season 3 Winner

About half way through this finale, I knew this time around John Rich was going to pick a female as the winner, so it was between Taylor Dane and Sheila E. Poor Tara Conner, who told her she could sing? She mysteriously gets bronchitis at the very last minute as she warbles her song on stage. I knew Mr. Rainbow dreds wasn't going to win, he looks like he's about to drop dead at any minute although on stage he's still got that charisma. Micky Dolenz can belt it but his voice just isn't that great and poor Justin, he should just stick to host Idol Chat on the TV guide channel. When Sebastian Bach came into the green room to give everyone a pep talk, that's when it hit me, JR was going to pick a girl. Sheila E's story about her being abused at age five swayed JR's decision on who was going to win this thing, was there not a dry eye in the room when she told it? When Sheila E went on stage, belted out her "Glorious Train" song and banged those drums and threw her shoes to the audience, the crowd went wild (I'm just wondering how she got her shoes back?). Part of picking her is that she's a dynamo on stage. She gives every woman over 50 something to aspire to, what a figure what energy! Although I really like Taylor's ballad better, Sheila will be a great complement to JR's concerts. At the end they played the music video of Sheila E's "Glorious Train", let's just say I'm not rushing out to buy it. "Glorious Train" with a few fiddle notes thrown in here and there is more gospel than country and as the singer said when she won, "Thank you Jesus!" -Single D

Previous winners of the show include Julio Iglesias Jr. (season one, did he ever do anything?) and Sebastian Bach (season two).