You’re hired. The first seven seasons of President Donald Trump’s competition reality show “The Apprentice” will stream on Amazon Prime Video. Season 1, which originally aired in 2004, became available on the streamer on Monday. The subsequent seasons will roll out weekly until April 27. Donald Trump hosting “The Celebrity Apprentice” in 2008. ©NBC/Courtesy Everett … Read more
NEW YORK — The choices on the movie marquee this weekend included Joaquin Phoenix as the Joker, a film about Donald Trump, a “Saturday Night Live” origin story and even Pharrell Williams as a Lego. In the end, all were trounced by an ax-wielding clown. “Terrifier 3,” a gory, low-budget slasher from the small distributor Cineverse, topped the weekend box office … Read more
movie review THE APPRENTICE What sensible people, whose LinkedIn accounts don’t say “movie critic” anyway, would go see a film about Donald Trump right now? The former president and current candidate dominates the news cycle, and obnoxious impressions of him are ubiquitous — whether on late-night TV or at every party that serves booze. Why … Read more
Donald Trump is learning how to be a businessman in the first teaser for the movie “The Apprentice.” The clip, released Tuesday, shows a young Trump (played by Sebastian Stan) in the car with power lawyer and fixer Roy Cohn (Jeremy Strong). They are on the phone with a reporter about Trump’s plans to buy … Read more
It’s 1956, the Golden Age of television, with feel-good shows like “I Love Lucy,” “December Bride,” “The Ed Sullivan Show” and “To Tell the Truth.” And then a Debby Downer came along — a tearjerker of a mid-afternoon program that featured depressed, destitute female contestants vying for financial and emotional help. Host Jack Bailey, a … Read more
Donald Trump is the talk of le town. A controversial new movie called “The Apprentice,” depicting the former president’s rise to fame in New York high society during the 1970s, premiered Monday at the Cannes Film Festival in France to a glamorous crowd including Cate Blanchett and Bella Hadid. The movie received a standing ovation … Read more
Would Donald J. Trump enjoy Cannes? It’s possible, since the extravagant displays of wealth here — all the yachts and glamour — are typically his thing. But would Cannes enjoy Donald J. Trump? You might be tempted to say no, since the Cannes Film Festival draws the sort of liberal-leaning artists that reliably vote against … Read more
Fire away. Before Donald Trump was the 45th president of the United States, he was the host of a little show called “The Apprentice.” The business NBC reality show ran for 15 seasons with the entrepreneur, 77, being at the helm of the round table from 2004 until 2017. The politician wanted his daughter Ivanka … Read more
They were excited he had to pay the money, money, money, money. The six co-hosts of “The View” got catty Monday when they walked out to “For the Love of Money” by The O’Jays while celebrating the verdict from former president Donald Trump’s defamation lawsuit, which cost the media mogul $83.3 million. “Woo,” jeered moderator … Read more