Harry Potter Task The Celebrity Apprentice USA

Previously...

The teams were tasked with creating a advertorial for Norton 360 and Lifelock.

We want one celebrity to be spokesman for that ad.

Project Manager Summer Sanders was slow off the blocks,

as Cyndi Lauper spoke her mind.

But what about me? I art-direct my covers.

Cyndi draws our attention away from what we're supposed to be doing.

..while Sharon Osbourne began to see cracks in her team.

Everybody's jockeying for position

and we're probably all going to end up

really disliking each other.

That competitiveness takes over.

It, like - It does break you down.

Meanwhile, Project Manager Michael Johnson

was bogged down by Blagojevich.

He can't operate a computer.

It was literally just, "Dat, dat, dat, dat,"

Like that, and it was... I was... I was amazed.

My nine-year-old can type. Rod can't.

And Darryl Strawberry's energy continued to slide.

I need... I need two large pizzas.

Takes a lot of wear and tear on you, mentally and physically.

OK.

And I was totally exhausted.

At the presentation, Michael's vision fell flat...

The copy reads, "I'm Curtis Stone, celebrity chef."

You could not read that screen.

No-one in that room could read it.

..while Sharon Osbourne's illness plagued her team.

SHE COUGHS

BLEEP.

In the boardroom,

The women turned on Cyndi.

She kind of steers us in the wrong direction.

Her wordiness or the way she explains things can be a little difficult.

You're throwing me under the truck.

But when it came down to the results...

The executives thought

the women's team was far superior,

so the women win.

..Summer scored an emotional victory for Tenacity.

Summer, I'm giving you a check for 20,000.

Oh, that's nice.

When left to face Mr Trump,

Michael took full responsibility for the loss.

But whose idea was it to use so many words?

My idea.

But Darryl had a shocking request.

And if you have to let anybody go, you can let... It would be me.

Darryl, do you want to be fired?

Yes.

All right. Darryl, you're fired.

-What happened?

-What happened?

Darryl and I both tried to talk him into firing us,

And he chose Darryl.

After the LifeLock loss, You know, we were really disappointed.

Basically, Darryl said, "I want to leave.

"I don't want to be here any more."

That's not falling on the sword. That's just quitting.

Rod - "I don't want to go home, Mr Trump!"

I don't want to go home Because I believe in my charity,

but I didn't want Darryl to do that.

Going forward, I don't think anyone knew,

you know, what we could do at that point to win,

because we felt like we had done everything we could to win.

-PHONE RINGS

-The phone's ringing.

Tenacity.

Mr Trump would like you all back in the boardroom right away.

OK.

Trump wants to see us all back in the boardroom again.

So, I immediately think to myself, "Is he going to fire somebody else?"

Oi, oi, oi. OK.

All right. Here we go again.

OK. We have to look to the future.

We forget about what just happened.

So, I want you to pick a Project Manager right now for your next task.

-Go ahead.

-Rod.

Oh, Rod? Whoa.

We're putting it on the line, Rod.

-Happy to do it.

-OK.

I nominated Rod to be Project Manager

because I felt like, in the first three tasks,

Rod didn't contribute as much as anyone else did.

So, I felt like, "OK, well, here's, you know,

"Rod Blagojevich, governor of Illinois,

"and he must have some leadership skills."

Very good.

Sharon, who's your Project Manager?

I'll do it.

Selita. Very good.

I didn't hesitate.

I didn't wait for anyone to step up before I could.

So, I just raised my hand.

I wanted to prove that I'm capable of being a Project Manager.

Tomorrow morning, you're going out to Teterboro Airport.

You're going to get on a plane, a Sentient Jet.

I will then give you your next task.

-Yes!

-Awesome.

Yes!

Now, don't get too excited. Just Rod and Selita will be going.

Rod, I hope you have no problem doing that.

-You don't need a passport for that.

-I don't think so.

For the first time in Celebrity Apprentice History,

the Project Managers will be separated from their teams.

OK. Go ahead.

-Thank you.

-Thank you.

And it begins.

Celebrity Apprentice has never done this before,

and, of course, it's when I decide

that I want to step up to the plate.

Yeah, great.

I don't know what the task is,

and I don't know if I can do it without you guys,

-so hopefully...

-Oh, we are.

Hopefully you guys are right there.

I absolutely trust my girls in their judgment,

and I know that there are some really strongly opinionated

women in that room.

So, I asked them to stick together and just stay strong for me.

Just give us jobs.

-Michael and I will work together real good.

-Absolutely.

Mr Goldberg, make history together.

-We're going to kick some ass, man. I don't like to

-BLEEP

-lose.

I'm going to tell you this much - We're not going to lose again.

You going to work hard?

I'm going to work hard. I'm here to work hard, man.

I've been chosen to be the Project Manager on a task.

We're not quite sure what that task is.

'We're on a losing streak, and we want to get back in the winning column,'

and we're going to work real hard to try to do that.

There's not one loser on this team.

How do we pull back together?

-We put it aside and we move forward.

-Right.

Look, we've just lost two tasks in a row.

So this one's super-important. We have to win it.

I'm feeling pretty nervous about this one.

Anyway, guys, we'll put it in. Let's kick some ass.

-ALL: Rocksolid!

-Come on, man.

A limo.

Morning.

Well, first, the limo picks us up, not the normal van,

and I'm like, "Whoo-hoo! This is pretty nice!"

But at the same time, I just didn't know what was in store for me.

Man, it's a shame when you're up and the sun's not up yet.

I'm a little concerned about this - this task.

Are you?

-Yes.

-OK, good.

Yeah. I have no idea what to expect.

I had no idea where we were going to go,

except that we were going to get on a plane at Teterboro Airport

and that we were going somewhere in the continental United States.

-I think anytime you have a project to take on...

-Yeah.

..there's a healthy concern.

Yeah, I think, when you're overly confident,

those are the ones that crash and burn.

That's why, you know, I volunteered myself for this task.

-Interesting. Is that right?

-Absolutely. I felt challenged, you know?

Yeah, got a little chip on your shoulder

cos you're beautiful

and you don't want people to think you're dumb.

-Is that it?

-Because I'm the model.

I'm the, you know, underestimated one,

and it's fine, you know, other than modelling,

I have a lot of skills, I have a lot of talent.

I think anyone who's successful has to have some smarts.

I agree.

Need a hand?

Thank you.

Wow.

Hi. Good morning. How are you?

Good morning.

I'm sure you're wondering why I dragged you out here.

Well, today we'll be flying to the Universal Orlando Resort.

Universal Orlando has created a highly anticipated attraction

called The Wizarding World of Harry Potter.

When you land in Orlando,

you'll gather information about this new attraction.

You'll report your findings back to your team in New York City,

who will begin work immediately under your direction.

Your team's task is to create and present

a three-dimensional interactive display

generating buzz among Harry Potter Fans.

After your tour, you'll fly back to New York City

and rejoin your team.

You'll present your display

to a group of young Harry Potter Fans,

Universal executives,

and the Harry Potter Fans

will determine who the winner will be.

Erin Burnett and George Ross

will be my eyes and ears back here in New York.

The winning Project Manager

gets 20,000 for your charity,

and, as always, the team that loses

will come back to the boardroom,

and another celebrity, sadly, will be fired.

Good luck, and remember -

FAA regulations require

that all electronic devices be turned off.

So turn off your cellphones

and don't call your team until you land.

Have a nice flight.

Orlando!

Is that what he said?

-Hi, Summer. So good to see you.

-Good to see you.

I won 20,000

for Right To Play, and I'm so excited,

because the Deputy National Director, Mario Argote,

just happens to be in New York

hanging out with some kids, playing soccer.

I got involved with Right To Play in 1996.

We bring sport and play to developing countries

and children who've been affected by war.

The kids that Right To Play affects

have seen such atrocities.

All they've known for the past ten years is war.

To literally trade out a gun for a ball

is an absolute honour.

I've seen the look in the eyes of these kids

when they are given that opportunity to challenge themselves.

So, Mario, I was Project Manager the other day.

And so, I went into the boardroom

and, um, uh...

Mr Trump said, "You won, Summer."

So, with that, he gave me...

Oh, my God!

Oh, that is so amazing!

Oh, thank you! Thank you!

And hopefully there's more to come.

-Thank you so much. So much.

-You're welcome!

Not only did we win 20,000,

but LifeLock and Norton 360 have decided

to donate 10 per every adult membership

to Right To Play.

This 20,000 has a chance to be a lot more.

Good kick.

All right!

It's feeling a bit empty, boys.

Well, so far, we're missing Rod.

There's a reason for that, right?

Michael, you didn't do anything to him, did you?

Rod's not here this morning.

The Project Manager got on a jet

and flew to an undisclosed location.

Everything's secretive.

The fear of the unknown kind of sucks sometimes,

but the reality is, when we get the word from Rod,

we're going to hit the ground running.

Hey, guys?

Can I talk to you guys for a minute?

When I used to go into the record companies...

and they had one of these dry boards.

And on it, they'd put everybody's name

and who was supposed to do what.

I brought in a dry-erase board

because we need to be more task-specific.

You get very task-specific, we get more done.

And this would be very specific,

and then you just cross it off as we get it.

-That may not work for every task...

-I know.

depending on what the tasks are.

Anyway...

'Well, Holly's very bossy.

'Sometimes you could be like a know-it-all,'

and you act like bossy, saucy gal,

but you shouldn't.

You'll be over here doing this,

but that wasn't necessarily your task.

I wouldn't butt in.

But you did.

I'm telling you

I've been trained for 20 years

doing the same thing from album cover number one.

That woman, she's a control freak.

Like, "OK, Holly Peete Robinson, whatever.

"Go. You go."

I get five hours sometimes to shoot four videos, OK?

And I'm the director.

And who directs the art covers? Me.

I'm not a "Songstress," Honey.

But everybody has a - Everybody has a story,

Cyndi. I understand, but you -

We're all here for our charities,

so I think we should just keep our mouths shut.

I'm not Cyndi's protector, but I respect Cyndi.

I just want you all to see - What is it like without Cyndi?

-I'm sorry.

-Without Cyndi,

this would be the most boring thing,

cos you guys would be...

like watching ice melt.

You know, I'm the biggest one to say, "Shut up, Cyndi,"

but there's a way of doing it without hurting people,

and I felt that the others

weren't giving her the respect that she deserved.

That's an opinion.

We're behind our boy Rod.

Where do you think he's gone?

I think they're somewhere,

and they're going to manage the project from wherever they are.

Let's just hope he doesn't have to use a computer out there.

So, Rod's a very important person in politics.

And so he has quite an infrastructure around him.

So Rod, bless his heart,

he doesn't necessarily know how to send an e-mail.

Rod has never taught himself how to use a computer.

Rod being a total technical reject worries us.

This is him.

He's sitting there going, "What's that?"

-Come on, Rod. Answer your phone.

-'Your call has been forwarded

'to an automated voice-messaging system.'

Whoever's picking up

this voicemail in a couple of months' time...

..can you please tell Rod that we love him,

no matter what happened back then, that it's all OK?

-Whatever happened back then.

-That's great.

If Rod has to send an e-mail today,

I sure as hell hope

that there's a homing pigeon somewhere around

that he can attach a note to.

One of the biggest components of this challenge

was that the Project Managers were being separated

from the rest of their teams.

So the communications part was going to be very important.

You can communicate through text messaging,

which is something I have no idea how to do,

or you can communicate by telephone,

which is something I do and some would say I do all too often.

My task is to create a 3D interactive experience

for The Wizarding World of Harry Potter

for Universal Orlando.

The great part about flying to Orlando

is that the flight allowed me that time to brainstorm.

What do you have, fruit, there? Um...

I'll have that in a little... in a little while.

I was excited because I pretty much knew

this wasn't something that Rod could excel in,

cos it was something about creativity,

and it was outside of his realm

because, you know, he's a businessman.

He's a... He's a politician.

Hello. How are you?

Are you ready to go?

I need to get my briefcase, is what I need.

Are you sure you need all that?

-Just in case.

-I'm not even -

I'm not talking to you, cos I'm not helping you.

You're the enemy. Goodbye.

PHONE RINGING

Holly, you want to get it?

-Get it. Run!

-Nah, you get it.

Sorry, sorry, sorry! Got it, OK. Hello?

I just want to let you guys know that I am in Orlando.

We are doing a task for Universal Studios

because they are opening up a new part of the theme park

called The Wizarding World of Harry Potter.

Oh, I love Harry Potter.

I've come up with an idea for the 3D experience.

I'm going to take a picture of it right now

and send it to you guys

so that you can call the fabricator and get him started.

Can you give each one of us a specific task?

I can't give anyone tasks

-because I haven't even seen the park yet.

-OK.

-Hey, Selita.

-Yes, ma'am.

Did you fly down there with the governor

or did you fly by yourself?

No, no. I flew with the governor.

Can I just tell you guys

that he doesn't even know how to work the computer.

How does he not know how to use a computer?

I mean, it's 2010. Everyone knows how.

Even my grandmother knows how to use a computer.

Is there anything productive we can do?

PHONE RINGS There we go.

Hello?

Hello?

-Hello?!

-Hot Rod!

Technology is not Rod's best friend.

Let's just be honest, OK?

He's - He's just getting used to it.

So, you know, he'll be standing there,

looking at his phone, going, "Hmm."

That's about it.

Hey. Yeah, this thing.

Hey, how are you guys?

-'Doing good, man.'

-Where are you, Rod?

Oh, yeah, sorry.

I'm in Orlando, Florida, all right?

We've been assigned

to create a three-dimensional interactive display

for Universal Orlando's new attraction,

The Wizarding World of Harry Potter.

-Rod.

-Yeah?

What is the definition

of a three-dimensional display?

Bret, you understand it better than I do.

Tell us what that means, definition of 3D display.

Well, three-dimension is you're in it,

-Almost like a Nativity scene.

-Yeah.

Do you know what I mean? Like a live church Nativity scene.

So, Rod calls from Orlando, right,

and one of the first things out of his mouth, he says,

"Bret, what's a 3D display?"

And I'm thinking, "This is not good."

I just want to share who should do what particular tasks.

I have some ideas.

I'd like to assign you, Bret,

to sort of manage the design stuff while I'm here, OK?

Absolutely.

Rod puts yours truly in charge of the creative.

Curtis is in charge of communication.

I believe Goldberg was in charge of graphics.

And Michael is in charge of finances and timing.

I'm going to tell you guys, I've got a really strong vision.

Cool.

If you guys will entrust on me, I swear to you,

the girls won't stand a chance.

All over it, man.

-OK, let's... Let's

-BLEEP

-kick some ass.

I just need to say something.

I need to get my game face on.

I did not come to be entertaining.

'I think I was less offended by it than I just felt like it was totally an inaccurate statement.'

Very insensitive, kind of random, but just flat-out wrong.

I came because my son has autism,

and 1 in 91 kids will have this, and it devastates families,

-and I came here for my charity.

-What makes you think

anybody doesn't want to win money for their charity?

-I'm just saying I did. That doesn't make sense to you?

-That makes sense, honey.

I'm saying everybody did.

'There was some tension today.

'And I think Sharon and Cyndi have bonded

'and Holly and Summer have bonded,'

and I feel like I'm in the middle.

Like, I don't really agree with this side

and I don't know if I agree with that side.

To be honest with you, I just want to get the task done.

Yeah, I came because I wanted more attention.

I'm not saying you did, Sharon, but you just got finished saying

that it'd be like watching ice melt.

If I'm boring, hey, you know what? If I'm like watching ice melt,

well, then just call me a glacier and let's get it on.

-I didn't come to be funny.

-You couldn't be.

OK.

-You going to jump on me?

-Yes, I am.

-You texting something?

-That's right.

cos I can't talk too much with you here, now, can I?

Right now we're heading to the theme park

to meet with the executives of Universal that work directly

with The Wizarding World of Harry Potter.

Success comes in all forms -

whatever you aspire to accomplish in life,

like me kicking your ass in this challenge.

Well, I wish you well in all your endeavours, except this one.

There's an advantage when you can sit somewhere

where you can't communicate and you can text message.

Being able to get those ideas out

and then just immediately send them to somebody

is an efficient way of communicating,

but it's not something I ever had to do

when I was the governor.

You have nothing to do?

-Who? Me?

-Yeah, you.

I-I don't know how to text.

So, I - There's noth- I can't do that.

Well, you know, I don't think

the texting or the e-mailing's that big a deal,

the fact that I don't know how to do that.

We won't not win because of text messaging or e-mails.

That'll just be an excuse

for people to point fingers afterwards.

Guys, I'm going to look up the e-mail she just sent us.

Come look at this!

This is awesome.

She was like, "Excuse my drawing.

"Roof will look like a castle."

She sounds so excited, you guys.

Selita was on top of it.

She sent us the diagram that she drew

and the way she wanted the display to work out.

We're heading down to Creech.

We're going to head down to our war room.

Keep texting. I like your texts.

Thank you.

-Hi.

-Hi.

-I'm Selita Ebanks.

-I'm Donna.

-Pleasure.

-Rod Blagojevich. How are you?

-Dennis Woodberry. How are you?

-How do you do?

We're really thrilled you're here.

We want to welcome you to Universal Orlando Resort.

Universal Orlando Resort

is proud to be the home of The Wizarding World of Harry Potter.

-Let's take a closer look.

-All right, let's go.

Great. I'm so excited.

Do you mind if I take a few photos?

Oh, please!

We're coming up upon Hagrid's hut.

You can see the amazing level of detail and authenticity

that goes into creating these structures.

Down to the foliage, down to the trees,

down to the paths, the lighting -

everything about this park

is literally derived from Harry Potter's world -

everything.

Now, you got to remember, this all starts back with JK Rowling

crafting these spellbinding novels.

To give you a sense of the scope and scale of the project,

we created this model to guide our thinking

in how to bring the entire world to reality.

I'm a big fan of that whole Harry Potter Experience.

It's an enchanted world filled with wizardry and magic

and broomsticks and pumpkin brew and chocolate frogs.

The whole thing is kind of a cool place to be,

and, you know, sometimes I wish

I was actually there on a permanent basis.

So, as you can see, we've gone to great lengths

to make sure this new land is completely authentic

to the Harry Potter Books and films.

So your marketing presentation can be no exception.

It's your job now to bring what you've learned

about The Wizarding World of Harry Potter

to life in your display.

Once they said to make it as authentic as possible to the park,

it was pretty much self-explanatory.

It's a 3D world you want kids to walk through

and get excited about going to the actual park.

We've got an amazing array of things here for you.

You can even take some of the merchandise with you to use in your presentation.

Both of us were invited to basically take a whole bunch

of different Harry Potter Merchandise

that we could use in our displays.

Make sure he doesn't get anything that I get, OK?

So, there was that sort of healthy competition

between the two of us to gather as much of the merchandise as we could.

I just want to make sure that I fully understand

-the purpose of this task.

-Yes, the idea is

for you to create this interactive display

so when you present it to the group of Harry Potter Fans,

we want you to get across the experience to them,

but the idea is

that we could take this experience on the road with us,

you know, to generate all the buzz

-for The Wizarding World of Harry Potter.

-OK.

-I think I'm good.

-All right.

Here's my thought. This is an overview.

Over here, we paint a path. You have flashes.

It scares kids, but it doesn't freak them out -

big difference.

My brain is always working

on creating stuff and then turning it into something.

As a songwriter, I can take a thought,

take it, turn it into music, turn it into a video.

And I think the team just turned to me

to be able to spark the right idea.

So, do we want to sit down and start going through this?

There's not a lot of room, but you still got to walk through something.

We definitely need a person to drive them through.

Going in to the fabricator's,

we need to just leave our sensitivities at the door

and just soldier on,

because it is for charity,

and with all these strong women,

we might just rip each other's throats out

if we're not careful.

So, this is the rough area of what you want to do.

Rough area, rough dimensions.

-Yeah. OK.

-8 feet.

Selita just put this down as a rough idea of what she wants.

Could this front part be the owl area

and then this back part be, like, a different wand area?

When Selita's not there,

we're just trying to come up with a basic concept

using the example that she gave us.

There's the dragon. There's the picture frame.

The picture frame.

Right, and then there's the wand-delivery system.

Wand delivery system.

With air and lights.

You know, you should come up with all of your ideas,

kind of prioritise them.

We have to check with Selita.

It's much different not having your Project Manager on-site.

We have a lot of unanswered questions.

So there's a lot of sitting around,

kind of waiting for final answers on things.

Let's go this. Here, I'm throwing it to you.

You tell me.

We're looking this way. I say we open this thing up

and have no sides. If I have to walk into this

and 12 kids get through this in a day,

imagine me with my daughters, who don't listen to anything.

"Come on, kids. The party's over."

"I don't want to go." She's in the corner crying.

You know, the other one wants to go get candy.

I think it's a disaster.

Bret's got a really unique way of articulating himself,

so sometimes it takes a while

to really understand exactly what he's getting to.

I think we go back to it being interactive here.

Hey, Bret.

I'm a little lost. Just tell me -

what am I going to see and what am I going to do?

The concept was, uh, very difficult.

I still can't explain it.

This whole interior -

everything becomes the interior of a castle.

What sort of a room in a castle?

That, I don't know yet.

-Let's just get in there and do it.

-All right.

You know, we have come all the way back to square one.

Can I go to the prop house?

Actually, let's go one more time through.

Our task is to create a 3D experience,

and this 3D experience is supposed to be a small example

on what you would experience in Orlando, Florida,

at The Wizarding World of Harry Potter.

So, potion bottles, cat, four drapes.

-Owl.

-Owl.

Are you going to do the graphic of the...

-Frames.

-Excuse me.

I don't know who's taking the lead.

We're trying to decide what props we're going to get.

So, for me, I'm, like, worrying about,

"Oh, my gosh. Are we going to get this done?"

Lots and lots of cooks in the kitchen.

-Hey, hey.

-'Hey, guys.'

-'Are you in the war room now?'

-Yes, ma'am.

'Oh, my gosh, we have a ton of carpenters

'that are ready to make all of our stuff,

'and they want to get rolling,

'so we want to get your approval on things.'

We have them making wands.

-'Is that OK?'

-No. I have wands.

You have wands. Aha! OK, great.

Finally, Selita called from Orlando

to talk about the task.

'Here's Sharon. Hold on.'

Selita, you want it to be like a little bit of a maze inside?

It's only 14 feet by 8 feet,

so that doesn't leave us a lot of space.

'Time was really of the essence.'

I mean, we were late in getting all this information

Tell you something - Now that I think about it

and looking at the size of this...

In my brain, I have this haunted-house thing

but the more I look at this, you walk in here, you're like,

"Where do I..." "OK. Now my experience is over?"

It could suck.

There's always a lot to be done with these tasks.

So, a lot to get done, you know, in a day.

I mean, you're talking about building something

that, you know, anybody in their right mind

would take three weeks to do.

Here's the gov.

'Hello?'

Hey, Curtis.

'We're just, um, still trying to get the creative down.'

-'Can you put Bret on the phone?'

-One sec.

-Bret, are you there?

-We're here.

OK, Bret, you've got to take a little slice

of this whole Harry Potter World and kind of maximise that.

My question to you - do they want

to walk in to this display

or do they want to keep people looking?

I mean - well, what do you think, Bret?

Decisions have to be made.

You're going to have to make those decisions.

Bret, you're in charge.

I don't feel like Rod was a good Project Manager,

because he did not really give us any direction at all.

He tried to delegate

but I think he stopped with delegation.

-You follow what I'm saying?

-I'm... I'm doing my best.

So, Rod's turned the creative over to me

And, you know, I got to be honest.

I'm a little worried right now

You know, because I'm thinking, "I got to pull this off.

"his is falling on my shoulders."

Here's what we're going to do. Create me this castle scene.

And then these will be the castle doors leaving.

Create the library over here.

So, basically, castle, library. Yeah.

We're taking a lot of artistic direction from Bret Michaels.

You know, we're coming down to the wire

and he's getting a little bit more focused

with what he wants it to look like.

We could start by building these three walls so we have them.

Right. Let's do it. That's it. It's done. Let's do it.

We do have a lot of work to do, but we got a lot of people,

and if these guys on the Rocksolid team

really jump in with us

we should be able to get this all done.

We'll find out.

One, two...

So, six of them.

Thank you.

PHONE RINGING

Hey, Curtis, I'm calling you back. How's it going?

Yeah. We're at the design centre now.

How did you go on the meetings?

Very helpful. I should point out -

The whole world's listening,

Including Selita sitting next to me - Just FYI.

So speak at your peril, OK?

We have a long flight, don't we?

-Two hours.

-Well, there you go.

Coming back from Orlando,

I just started working on the storyline and the experience.

I just keep watching the DVD over and over and over again.

And I look over...

.nd this man is knocked out.

I'm talking about cold.

He has his glasses on, and he's just, like...

Gone, asleep.

And I was like, "Maybe I should kick him."

I thought maybe he thought it was like a break time.

COUGHING

I didn't feel well. I was still seriously sick.

It's very bad in there today

Because of all the sawdust.

I think that I was coughing up sawdust flugies all day.

-Hi.

-Hi. How are you?

Mr Trump sent me over here to see how you're doing.

We're a little hemmed up

because our Project Manager is on a flight from Orlando.

George is Mr Trump's eyes and ears

and when George came

we were waiting for Selita to come back from Orlando

and we were just stopped down.

I don't know how much more we could have done.

Should I walk you through it?

You're going to walk in through the mouth of a dragon.

We're going to hopefully make it seem like it's super tall

even though we only have 8 feet.

That's very bold.

Did you mention the dragon?

A lot of work, yeah. A lot of work.

I've never seen a team so cool, calm, and collected before a storm.

It's a very ambitious project.

If they can pull it off, it should be... It should be great.

So, what do you think, George?

If you can pull it off.

Don't you have faith in us?

-Hello.

-Hi, guys. How are you?

-Nice to meet you. I'm Bret.

-Hi, Bret. Nice to see you.

-I'm Erin Burnett from CNBC.

-I know exactly who you are.

So, Donald Trump's eyes and ears is hot -

smokin'-hot Erin Burnett, and I'm like, "Hello!"

She's beautiful. She is. She's smart, funny, very together,

And she's a beautiful, beautiful woman.

This is the interior of the castle.

You know, like old-school

Coney Island haunted house kind of feel.

I think of back when I was a kid

and I went to the old haunted houses.

They were really cheesy

but I felt like me and my dad got an experience.

Right.

Realistically, it was a lot of carnies smoking weed.

-Right.

-You know, but then I didn't know.

I thought it was awesome, and it just smelled good.

I sort of take her under my wing and only for business purposes

do I overly want to explain everything to her.

'I'm not sure that Erin'

necessarily loved our creative or hated it

but I was just going to keep talking to her anyway.

That's what the important thing was.

Nice to meet you. I watch all the time.

-Oh, yeah, right.

-I do! For real!

All right, so, Rod is on his way back, right?

-Yeah, yeah, yeah.

-OK.

-Flying back.

-He's doing all right?

He give you what you needed or...?

It's been a really interesting dynamic

having our Project Manager on the other side of the country

Because he's pretty much leave it up to us.

And darling Rod

He's slightly technically challenged, so that's...

What? Like, on the... cos he could e-mail, right?

No, he couldn't.

No? Really?

There's so many bad jokes I could make right now.

I think Rod's technological issues are significant.

One of the things I think

is interesting as a team dynamic, though

Is that Bret says, "If it fails

"it's because Rod didn't communicate something."

Should Rod be the one to go or should Bret be the one to go?

I took the creative and ran with it.

My head's on the chopping block. There's no doubt.

Oh, that looks fantastic!

Our concept, it's actually coming together really nicely.

When we heard it was 3D, we knew we had to have some grand entrance.

You know, what kid wouldn't love to walk through a dragon mouth?

And then you walk in to Ollivander's,

which is the wand shop, to become a wizard.

Maybe once he's done, I can have him mix up some colours

and we can just start painting all these.

This manicure is done!

We have been making a lot of decisions,

and I think that we've included Selita on most of them.

So, it'll be interesting

to see what she says when she comes back.

I hope that she likes everything, because if not, we're screwed.

This entire wall's inside and around these'll be stone.

Yeah. All this gets covered in stone.

It's going to look nice. Yeah, this is great.

It feels amazing watching all this come to life,

and I'm feeling pretty good right now,

but I got to admit I'm also feeling pretty nervous

and I'm hoping that Rod is going to really like

where we're going with this

and actually get where we're trying to go with this.

Like I said, if this thing's a total disaster,

I'll take complete fall on it, you know what I mean?

-But you know what I'm saying?

-No. I think it's a good idea.

-I'll take the fall.

-I like it. I like it.

Look, if we don't win this task,

who's Rod going to point his finger at?

He pretty much passed over

the Project Manager's role to Bret.

You know, all the creative work was to be done by Bret.

What's the ceiling going to look like?

With the ceiling, uh...

You know, Rod's a politician. Maybe he did this on purpose.

Maybe Bret's the man

that's going to be sitting there with him next to Mr Trump.

See you, guys. Thanks for the ride.

Thank you! Ooh!

When we landed back in Teterboro, I was like,

"Let's go! Time to go. We got to go! Where's the car?"

And I made sure that my bags

were not mixed up with Mr Rod's bags.

I didn't want him to have none of my goodies, OK?

How we doing, guys?

Good over here, man. Painting up good.

Hey.

-Rod!

-How's it going?

-I'm doing good, buddy. How you doing?

-Good, man.

We got a good, positive energy in here, man.

-We're cranking.

-Looks good, man.

I'll give you the overview once I get this done.

We're in good hands here.

Look at that Goldberg. What a worker.

When I got to Brooklyn and walked in to the studio,

I was delighted with what I saw.

Do what you need to do.

I was not really surprised. I saw early stages

of the development of the Hogwarts Castle,

and it was encouraging.

Hey.

When I walked in the office...

-How was it?

-Good.

..Michael and Curtis were eating dinner.

I think they were eating ribs or something.

There is a little voice in my mind

that says that maybe Bret could have had a little bit more help.

When I first walked in to the design studio,

I was a little scared

because I didn't know what I was going to see.

I didn't know how far along they were on the project.

I didn't even know if they even started the project.

Oh, my gosh! That looks so good!

So, here are some Christmas lights for in this section.

Christmas lights? Why are we going with Christmas lights?

Well, don't put on Christmas lights as white twinkle stars

But there's no twinkle. There's no stars.

You don't want it to look like stars?

Because there's none in the storyline that they gave us.

The girls did a marvellous job,

but at the end of the day, I was the Project Manager.

And being the fact that I was the only person

to meet with the executives, I knew exactly what they wanted.

So, when I came back,

there was a few details that I had to change.

We just need to get an idea, a concept

-of what we're all doing tomorrow.

-Yep.

I'm going to do the presentation.

Miss lovely Maria is in charge of the, um...

The mystical, magical wands!

And are you going to be in charge of the boxes?

If they can do it.

It was so much better to have Selita in human form

telling us, you know, what we should be doing,

what are our roles for the presentation.

OK. Perfect.

Rod, if you don't play a major part in that presentation,

if I was the executive, I'd think, "Why weren't you involved?"

As I'm working here, I'm going to think about the key message,

which is "Opening in the spring, lot of fun."

You know, I'll think about a short, little message.

I think what we need to do is write it up

and say, well, how's it going to go?

You know, how are we going to present it?

We'll just hand them candy, have fun, and just ad lib.

Our task will be judged by a focus group

of young Harry Potter Fans.

So, I made the decision that we should do more improv

than anything that was too scripted.

In my experience, when you're too scripted, it's not natural.

I think kids get a better sense of whether you're real or not,

and they would see through it.

I think the best way to go with this

is it's got to be a show, it's got to be very theatrical.

So, what have we achieved?

We have a general sense that we're going to have fun,

we're going to ad lib a lot of stuff, right?

You want us to get to work? You want something else from us?

-I think that's good.

-Whatever you want.

There wasn't a plan for the presentation.

-The plan for the presentation was, we haven't got a

-BLEEP

-plan.

You know, remember bullet points.

-Creatures of lore.

-Interactive.

Magic.

Creatures beyond your imagination.

So, Rod and Goldberg and myself are in the van.

We're heading to the presentation space,

and at this point, Curtis and Michael kind of break off

and they're going to pick up some stuff

for inside of our wizarding castle.

Listen.

In the beginning, talk to those executives, too,

before you go on to your kids.

Most of it's going to be about the kids.

Do we agree with that, Bret?

What you want to do is engage in their fun.

Say, where would you go?

What's your favourite school? Is it "Hogwalds"?

That's good. It's not Hogwarts. It's not a school, but you'll get it. Hufflepuff or whatever. Go ahead.

Here, let me say this to you.

-I don't know the

-BLEEP

-words, so don't...

-I'll get you.

-Just let me roll with the words.

-Roll. Go ahead.

You got to go easy on me, Rod. You got to go easy.

-I'm calm. I'm good. I'll make it great.

-I know you will.

Rod started to really stress me out.

He just kept going at me.

"You got to remember this, do this, stand on your ear,

"Don't do that, stand with this foot up,

"Put this leg over your head,

"and then deliver all this Harry Potter information."

I'm like, "Look, Rod, they're kids.

They're here to have fun."

It's a great opportunity.

-I got it, but let me...

-OK.

-You're going to lose...

-In your own words. I got it.

-Let me...

-It's the point you got to make.

The Wizardr... Wizarding World -

WIZARDING World of Harry Potter.

-The WIZARDING World.

-Yeah.

So, this morning, Michael and I ran down to Eclectic,

the prop house,

to pick up the last few little finishing touches to our design.

Hello!

What have you got Harry Potter?

Um, I'll show you upstairs.

We're missing quite a few things for our display

and key features.

So, we didn't know what to go and buy.

PHONE RINGS

-'Go ahead.'

-Hey. Is, uh, Rod there with you?

I'm right here, Michael. Hi.

Here's what we got so far -

a table that we can put, you know, stuff on,

and then we've got, like, a candelabra, um, a chandelier.

Anything else you guys can think of?

OK. How about a chair, like an old chair? Should we get that?

Use your judgment, Michael. You can do that, too.

Anything else you feel fits the mood, use your judgment.

I asked him if he had any thoughts or ideas about props for the exhibit.

At that point, you know, there wasn't any,

and we didn't have a lot of direction from Rod.

Well, no - tell me your vision.

Your vision is?

-He's a governor. That's

-BLEEP

-unbelievable.

Maybe he's got so many people around him

that he never has to make a decision or maybe...

You know, we didn't see...

We didn't see much from him.

It is what it is at this point. Yeah.

Morning, morning.

All righty!

Um, I don't know if you notice or not,

but it's not all together.

So, you need to decide what the orientation is, I guess.

I mean, this is kind of the space.

Yeah. It's not...

Not too angled, not too flat, but just...

I'm feeling a little overwhelmed. The project's done.

It's just not assembled.

So, there's a lot of work to do.

All right. So, I guess we need to do some work, huh?

Wizards and muggles alike!

Kitty cat. Here, Kitty, Kitty, Kitty.

Well, we have two choices. We can either just leave it blank or put those stickers.

-So, then, why don't we put these on the envelopes?

-OK.

We don't have a lot of time to get everything in place,

all of the lights together, all of our special effects,

and then rehearse our actual presentation.

So, we all pitched in

and found something that we could do to help out.

Bing! Perfecto.

You know, I could stand like this.

Stand erect and strong, man.

Move up here for a second. See how it looks.

Can you... Here. Let's see what that's like.

Yeah. I feel good about it.

He has to be on the other side.

We might not have a script, but in my mind, in my old noggin,

I've got a good idea of what's going to go on here, right?

Killing me.

So, Goldberg is going to be our tree,

and then Curtis will be the professor

who will invite the kids into the castle.

The headmaster's going to be Rod,

and then we have Michael in some really kind of creepy outfit.

-It's a suit.

-Yeah.

OK? So, this is the roots.

The roots are key, because the roots are what -

Weeping thing, what they call that name? Weeping whimper.

I feel really good about the presentation itself.

Now, about my role in it, that's a different story.

It's kind of like the anti-previous challenge.

-You know what I'm saying?

-Yes. Exactly.

There you had your shirt off. Now you got everything...

-Now you're overdressed.

-Yeah.

I begged and pleaded to let me take my shirt off again

as opposed to turning me into a weeping whomper

-or whatever the hell that is.

-I got to tell you, man, I love it.

-It's looking right.

-All right, Bill, see you around.

-BLEEP BLEEP

-you!

Come on.

Did I mention I was claustrophobic?

It's either going to be the greatest thing that ever happened

or the best laugh I've ever had.

I provide you with the stupidest moment ever

on the history of The Apprentice.

Here we go.

You just tell me what to hold, and I'll...

I love it draped just like that.

This, I don't like. What do you think of that?

It's, like, your first impression you get.

That's kind of cheap.

First impression, I like it.

Is it redundant? Yes, but that's what we're selling.

What are you doing? What are you doing?

I didn't like that thing there.

Rod, I think that's a mistake, man. What are you going to put there?

-I don't know.

-We've got nothing.

We have a lot left to do,

and it seems like little foibles keep happening along the way,

but I'm trying to remain calm,

because losing my cool right now would be the wrong thing to do.

Right now, it's beating all of us up.

We're wasting time talking about this.

I made a command decision. I didn't like it.

I love you, man. And you're doing...

This is unbelievable what you're doing.

I just didn't... Somehow I didn't like that thing.

Rod, you better figure this out real quick.

Welcome, welcome, young wizards.

Take a seat, please.

Wizards and muggles alike,

welcome to a world unlike no other.

Please don't be afraid,

for not everything seems to be what it is.

In our presentation,

I came up with this little horrible British accent

that is so sad.

Open the door to Ollivander's,

but you may think you're in Zonko's joke shop.

I don't care how awful my accent is or whatever.

I mean, if I was on the runway

and I felt like, you know, a boob was about to pop out,

I wasn't going to stop, turn around, and run back, no.

I'm going to tuck it in and keep moving, you know?

And, please, don't forget to tell your parents

to visit The Wizarding World of Harry Potter.

Young wizard.

Be very careful as you enter The Wizarding World of Harry Potter.

(Be careful.)

Don't look at me.

Look at the screen. Look at the screen.

Muggles and wizards,

muggles and wizards, muggles and wizards, muggles and...

Cyndi was, like, totally in character.

"Don't look at me!

"Don't look at me! Don't look at me!"

Muggles and wizards, you'll need that.

You'll need that.

Off to Ollivander. Off to Ollivander.

And I'm going like this.

-I'm like, "For

-BLEEP

-sake, Cyndi, shut up!"

Come this way!

Come this way!

Welcome! Welcome to Ollivander's!

As you know, your wand chooses you!

So, you know, let's see. Which one would be yours?

The kids were looking at me like,

"Is this lady crazy?"

Please check this wall right here. Oh, oh!

Oh, no, no, no. This isn't right.

I was part of the special effects

as just a way to kind of make it interactive,

like the boxes are coming off.

Maybe I have one for you.

Let's see. How about this one?

That is the one that wants you!

I think they really loved the presentation

and how well it was done.

I like playing around with kids.

This one.

Oh, there you go! There you go!

It likes you!

OK, please come out this way. Please come out this way.

Congratulations on completing the forbidden journey.

Please take a chocolate frog,

a Blood Pop, some Bertie Bott Beans.

Part of the criteria is

the overall experience for these young people,

and they have a very high standard,

and so it was very important to come off authentic.

My favourite.

And thank you for coming to The Wizarding World of Harry Potter.

Thank you.

So, when I gave them their scroll and congratulated them on their journey, and their goodies,

they all had smiles on their faces.

So, I felt very confident.

On behalf of team Tenacity,

we would just like to thank you for enjoying...

ALL: The Wizarding World of Harry Potter.

At Universal.

Come on in. Come on in. Welcome.

Please take one of our nice brochures.

Whoops. How you doing?

Wait. We don't want to forget anybody.

Today we'll be judged on the execution of the 3D display,

the whole experience

of The Wizarding World of Harry Potter,

and, most importantly,

these little Harry Potter nerdlingers

are going to give us their feedback and let me know what they think,

and if they don't like it...

First of all, I just want to take a moment

to welcome all of you to our awesome display today.

We put a lot of time and effort into this.

My name is Bret Michaels,

and I am an avid fan of Universal Orlando,

cos I'll tell you what -

The Wizarding World of Harry Potter

is about to be the biggest attraction ever,

coming spring 2010.

It rocks, all right?

As a rocker, I know this for a fact, right?

If you all want to come over here for just a minute and line up.

I walked in and presented myself

as average, everyday American rock-star dad

who takes his girls to Universal,

and then, all of a sudden,

I had Curtis pop out.

Professor, would you come out? They're right here in front of you waiting, sir.

Yes, yes, yes, yes. I'm coming.

Hello, there, boys and girls, ladies and gentlemen.

-Have you used one of these before?

-No.

-Do you want to use one of these?

-Yes.

Come with me, then, one at a time.

You first, young man.

In you go. Big step up.

There you go.

Here, governor, we've got our first student.

Hello. How are you?

-Good.

-Nice to meet you. What's your name?

-Farley.

Hello, Farley. How are you? Welcome to Hogwarts Castle.

Here's the magic hat.

The magic hat's going to tell you what class you belong in.

You know, this magic hat can talk all by itself.

And I wonder what class you're going to be assigned to.

Is it Hufflepuff?

Slytherin.

Is it Slytherin? I don't know.

So, we brought one of the little boys through

and sat him on his chair,

and we asked him which school is he going to have to attend.

Magic hat, which is it?

Gryffindor.

Whoa! Gryffindor! Congratulations.

It was really cute to see these little fans,

who are obviously such fanatics of Harry Potter...

Gryffindor!

SHE CHEERS

..that even this little experience

that we created for them, they were stoked.

Now, this has magical powers.

Let's see what you can do.

Move, tree.

GROANS

Once the kids came in and I looked at that thing,

I'm like, "It was crazy."

Move, tree!

I've got a tree that moves.

It's Goldberg.

I mean, no kid wants to see

that stuck inside a dark castle...

And Michael who is some sort of monk of evil darkness

I'm going to let you use my wand just once.

Right as I thought it couldn't get any creepier...

Now, do you think you can take control of the wand?

..I'm like, "Oh, God. "All of us are going to prison after this creepy castle ride."

I think little more smoke, a little more smoke

A little more.

So, the presentation is going quite well,

but there's a bit of a problem.

I'm dying.

No more smoke.

There's so much fog in this room,

it doesn't really matter what we're doing,

because you can't see any of it anyway.

No more of that! I'm not going to be able to breathe!

-Pleasure to meet you.

-Nice to meet you, too.

The Wizarding World of Harry Potter has all kinds of amazing things.

-You can take rides...

-What kind of rides?

You - you can ride -

The headmaster knows all about the rides.

Governor. I need the governor, please.

The governor is not the governor. The governor is the headmaster.

Curtis is all by himself with this Universal executive,

and the executive's asking him about the dragon roller coaster.

One of our best attractions, which happens to be the dragon...

the dragon ride that makes it... simulate a roller coaster.

I could visualise that dragon roller coaster,

but I can't quite remember what the name was.

The good news about that dragon ride is it doesn't breathe any fire.

Uh, in any event...

He sat there. I don't know what he thought about the fact

that we maybe could have been a little bit more prepared

on the dragon roller coaster.

Did you get to see our lovely display of merchandise?

I did not.

Come on. Take up what you want. Thanks!

That one I think's going to look pretty rock on you, all right?

-I like that sweatshirt.

-You know what? It's yours.

-Oh, man, this was so cool!

-There you go.

It was a disaster, honestly, but at the end, you know how we

-tried to win them over?

-Oh, look at this.

We tried to win them over with free candy and merchandise.

Thanks.

And every kid there just gobbled up that stuff like that.

Well, I want to take the time

to thank you all very much for joining us.

Remember, spring of 2010, Universal Orlando.

The Wizarding World of Harry Potter.

You think this is a debauchery, that's going to be great.

I'm positive that we have screwed this up so badly

that we had to have won. All right.

See you later, guys. Enjoy yourself.

All right, guys.

What'd you think?

I thought the girls were most true to the story

and the actual canon of Harry Potter,

but I thought the guys were more entertaining.

The boys, I feel like, when I heard the hat talk...

I think I saw the guy in the tree.

I think it should have been a little more hidden, kind of.

And they said "Classes" Instead of "Houses."

Right.

-But you got the idea.

-Yeah.

Did you get a sense of what the entire World of Harry Potter

was going to be like at Universal?