Singles Dating: Helpline
Single woman gets stood up by dating service
Helpline columnist Gene Tharpe writes: Carolyn Mitchum of Marietta first decided against joining the 50-Plus Singles dating service. Then, she changed her mind and joined it. Later, she wished she had stuck with her first decision. Gene Tharpe Carolyn Mitchum of Marietta first decided against joining the 50-Plus Singles dating service. Then, she changed her mind and joined it. Later, she wished she had stuck with her first decision.In April, Ms. Mitchum was told a 50-Plus Singles...
Singles Dating: How do I love thee? Count the spark plugs
Being safely removed by age and commitment from the singles dating scene, I do not haunt singles bars or read the dating ads in throwaway newspapers. Besides, if I were looking for a mate, I believe I'd trust in the cute meet, on which so many movie romances were based in the 1930s, rather than a want ad or computerized dating approach. In the cute meet, two persons of obvious compatibility are brought together by some minor contretemps -- she drops her ice cream on his lap in the...
Singles Dating: UNMADE BEDS (no MPAA rating, 93 minutes, 1998).
A "100 per cent scripted" documentary about the lives but not the loves of four New York singles who advertise for mates. Selected from 400 applicants for qualities of personality, humor and desperation, they document a singles dating game that gets increasingly bleak as the clock keeps ticking. The star is Brenda, a buxom blonde who is clear about what she's looking for: "A man to give me money and go away." A lot of the dialogue is...