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DATES IN EVERY STATE
AGE: 23
HOME: Santa Monica
STATUS: Never married
PROFESSION: Aspiring author
Scheme: Setting up blind dates in each of the 50 states for his documentary A Sensitive Guy on the Road.
Why: Striking out with women a few times too often, he wanted "to see if all nice guys had this problem."
Is he for real? Yes. Although he ran out of cash after 12 dates, he's now in talks about turning his trip into a reality TV show.
TV show.
Marc Horowitz
WILL TAKE YOU TO DINNER
AGE: 28
HOME: San Francisco
STATUS: Never married
PROFESSION: Photographer's assistant turned performance artist
Scheme: While helping to set up a photo shoot of a home office for Crate & Barrel's fall 2004 catalog, he posted a "Dinner with Marc" memo on a bulletin board along with his phone number.
Response: More than 19,000 invites so far.
Why he did it: "I saw it as reality hacking," he says. "The catalog is supposed to look real."
Upshot: He launched a "National Dinner Tour," chronicled on his Web site Ineedtostopsoon.com.
Is he for real? "At first I did think it was an odd idea," says Linda Parsons, who had dinner with Horowitz in Chicago. "But Marc is a very interesting conversationalist."
Rod Barnett
WILL PAY $10K FOR A WIFE
AGE: 41
HOME: St. Louis
STATUS: Never married
PROFESSION: Entrepreneur/owner of Automation Service, an industrial supplier
Scheme: Offering a $10,000 reward to the person who introduces him to the woman he proposes to-she doesn't have to say yes!
Find him at: 10K4awife.com
Philosophy: "Finding the right match is a matter of mathematics," he says. "There are thousands of variables, and when you're exposed to a narrow spectrum, your odds aren't as good at finding all those things."
Ideal woman: Age 28-38, 5'4" or taller, brunette.
Response: Thousands of e-mails; dozens of dates.
Is he for real? "Rod's sincere in his quest for a high-quality woman," says pal Laura Rowbottom. "He has really tried to look at who he is and what he wants."
Richard Roe
HE'LL FLY YOU AWAY
AGE: 64
HOME: Manhattan Beach, Calif.
STATUS: Divorced, three children
PROFESSION: Retired stockbroker
Scheme: Roe will take several potential soul mates on all-expenses-paid trips to Africa, the Amazon and Tahiti.
Find him at: Seniorbachelor.com. Applicants must send a three-minute video, a bio and recent photo by Sept. 16.
Why he's doing it: A desire for "love and companionship."
Ideal woman: "A great traveler with a thirst for knowledge and really, really fun to be with," he says. "At least 40 years old, open to the possibility of a long-term relationship."
Response: Over 600 videos and 2,200 e-mails.
Is he for real? Oprah thinks so. She said he was "handsome" and "eligible" when he appeared on her show to tout his Web site.
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