Clint Black on the Orange Carpet at the 43rd Annual ACM Awards, Sunday, May 18, 2008 in Las Vegas, NV. Photo by David Vespie.
March 30, 2009 — Clint Black's last CD of entirely new songs came with the 2005 concept album Drinkin' Songs & Other Logic — all of it music about alcohol and its effects. He did plenty of research on the subject during the early years of his career when he played the clubs in Texas, and he was reintroduced to the topic in Sunday's edition of The Celebrity Apprentice, which closed with a promo for Alcoholics Anonymous.
Clint, however, was not the cause for the AA reference. Instead, it was Dennis Rodman, whose sullen behavior during this year's season came to a head when he was named project manager for the men's team in the latest episode, in which the celebs were judged for their customer service at a Loew's Regency Hotel in Manhattan. Dennis started off with a take-charge approach.
"Dennis stands a chance of bein' a better leader than a follower," Clint observed early in the episode.
But that viewpoint did not last long. Dennis fueled his management style with an endless supply of vodka and cranberry juice. In short order, he became loud and belligerent, forgot decisions he'd made, argued with his teammates — Clint, R&B singer Brian McKnight, ex-NFL star Herschel Walker and Monster Garage host Jesse James — and eventually walked out on them. In the most bizarre moment, he paid extra attention to two guests who wanted dinner at a nice restaurant: He got a car to take them, then joined them for the meal and ordered all the food. In the process, he left his teammates to fend for themselves at the hotel, and the team already had one less player than the women.
The women outscored the men's team, 91-86, to win for the fourth time in five episodes, and the board room became an intervention. Jesse said he believed Dennis had a drinking problem, and the rest of the participants agreed. Donald Trump typically sends the winning team to another room while he decides who to fire, but that step was eliminated this week. Trump sent Dennis packing: ""You let me down, you let yourself down, you let your team down. You're fired!"
Dennis promised to overcome his issues in the final scenes, just before NBC ran the AA Web address, www.aa.org,20on the screen.
Despite his clashes with Dennis, Clint insisted he had positive thoughts of the controversial basketball star's potential.
"I think I understand Dennis," Clint said. "Who Dennis is trying to be I don't like."
Dennis is "not for everyone," Clint added, "but he could be for a lot of people."
The show resumes on Sunday with more drama; NBC is teasing that Trump may face a "celebrity mutiny."
No comments:
Post a Comment