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...indispensible--Evan Marc Katz's "I Can't Believe I'm Buying This Book." (Ten Speed Press; 174 pages). The book's tips on everything from jazzing up your profile to polishing your first-date etiquette are so sharp that this is a must read for any online dater. "Caffeine kills a date," writes Katz, who prefers a cozier atmosphere to the ubiquitous "coffee/interview date." He adds, "Do not talk about your dysfunctional family," and "do not complain about dating...
...solution: speed dating. Lining up at tables in bars and clubs across the country, single men and women come on to one another for precisely three minutes before a bell sends them shuffling over to the next table. Salsa dancing and games (tarot cards, anyone?) are also on offer. Daters mark their card if they find someone interesting, and if the attraction is mutual the pair can swap e-mails later. For those who don't connect, three minutes is (relatively) painless. Over two nights last week, 3,000 single people gathered at London's Vinopolis wine museum for what...
...shows represent the transformation of dating into sport," says Aisha Tyler, host of The 5th Wheel. On EX-treme Dating, two ex-lovers of one dater spy on the rendezvous and comment to their ex's date through an earpiece, like evil Cyranos; if they "win"--sabotage the date--they get a prize. (So far, they usually do.) On Rendez-View, a panel of "relationship experts" offers play-by-play, SportsCenter style...
That would be Democratic fund raiser and serial billionaire-dater Patricia Duff and her daughter Caleigh by ex-husband Ron Perelman, chairman of Revlon. Then there's the Stewart entry, followed by: "2:07 Could Alan have your Knicks tickets?" No word yet on who Alan is or if he got to the game...
...make women wince: "Cad: Confessions of a Toxic Bachelor" by Rick Marin, a former senior writer at Newsweek and former reporter for the New York Times Sunday Styles section. According to his publisher, "After a doomed marriage dissolves into divorce, journalist Rick Marin goes from devoted husband to serial dater, and embarks on a sort of rampage, dating and sleeping his way through the ranks of New York's women. Marin's behavior becomes increasingly ungentlemanlike - in fact, he becomes something of a cad. In this finely written, wildly entertaining, and alternately humorous, obnoxious and poignant memoir, Marin takes...