Thursday, April 8, 2004

THIS MAY BE THE ONLY OPPORTUNITY YOU EVER HAVE IN YOUR LIFE TO USE THE WORD 'DEFENESTRATE': Via Gawker comes this fascinating report from a writer who lived downstairs from one of the apartments renovated and rented during week seven of The Apprentice.

Oh, the things Mark Burnett doesn't want you to know: like that the apartment's previous occupant committed suicide there. Or this, which is pretty damning of the Burnett-Trump notion of "reality":
It turned out that [the successful renter] had actually rented the apartment before it was renovated. She had looked at a few places in the neighborhood, picked the apartment upstairs from us, and made arrangements to move in before learning that it had been pulled off the market for the show. She went ballistic. The landlord told her not to worry, she could still have the apartment at the agreed-upon rent but would have to participate in the episode in order to get it. During the filming, she went through the motions and rented the apartment at a price higher than the one she would actually be paying. The negotiation was a sham.

Up next: will we hear from the penthouse-renters from last week? How did they know to find Nick and Amy with just minutes to spare?

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