Word: rip-off
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...Donald Trump says he's finished with The Apprentice and moving on to "a major new TV venture." Media blog JOSSIP wonders, "What's Donald to do? Perhaps it'll be a Mad Money rip-off, where you can get stock advice in between plugs for Trump vodka and Trump magazine." SCORE...
...Ebb’s script. Quinn: [Juan and I] actually got to see a production when we were home over Thanksgiving. I thought it was so interesting, and that there were so many things that can be done with it. Unfortunately, the production we saw was a blatant rip-off of the Broadway production. I was just looking at it like, “Come on, there’s so much room for innovation!” I started thinking of ideas in the middle of the show, and Juan started putting in comments. By the end he came...
...picked the right place to stress-test budget lodging concepts. The average cost of a London hotel room is $234 a night, making the city one of the priciest in the world. Beecham says it was his personal experiences as a consumer - specifically, his distaste for what he calls "rip-off" charges for things like phone calls and movies - that inspired him to go into the business. He built a traditional hotel, but lowered costs by making careful choices in siting and design. Rooms at the Hoxton are all 20 sq m in size, roughly 20% smaller than those...
Schwarzman is frank about this: "I think the public markets are overrated," he has said. Anyway, if you think private-equity firms are ripping off the rest of us, you'll soon be able to join in the rip-off yourself when Blackstone goes public...
...Tucker (NBC, 8:30 p.m.) Let it not be said that this story about a hormonally charged boy and his wacky family is an unoriginal rip-off of "Malcolm in the Middle." No, in an innovative twist, the makers of this sitcom deftly took out everything imaginative, funny and good-hearted about "Malcolm," replacing it with insult comedy and erection jokes. As the title child, Eli Marienthal is the most irritating kid on television since Hallie Eisenberg made her first Pepsi commercial. If this series lasts more than two episodes, somebody needs to be horsewhipped...