| Dating and the battle of the bulge
(This is such a heavy subject it will take two columns to complete.) The holiday season is over, and for many of us the dieting season has begun. Since New Years Day, we have stepped on our scales and recoiled in terror as the little red line on the display edged ever so slowly into virgin territory. Lets face it, almost all of us have added 5-10 extra pounds since Thanksgiving, when we rationalized OK, its the holiday season, so what the heck, Ill have another serving of turkey and stuffing, and sure, throw a scoop of ice cream on my second slice of apple pie. And so this week we are making New Years resolutions to drop those extra pounds and, while we are at it, maybe try and shed some or all of the other 10, 20, 50 or more pounds that have been creeping onto our stomachs, hips, and butts over the years and decades.
VH1 kicks up 'Flavor' with femme spinoff
VH1 is spinning off a female version of its No. 1 show "Flavor of Love." Cable network has greenlit production on 10 episodes of an untitled series from executive producers Cris Abrego and Mark Cronin that casts one of the eccentric contestants from the first season of "Flavor" in her own dating show. "Flavor" continues to rank as VH1's top-rated original series. A recent episode on Sept. 3 drew a big 3.23 million viewers (1.5 national rating/5 share in 18-49; 1.9/7 in 18-34). Similar to what ABC did with "The Bachelorette," VH1 will air the offshoot on its own next year, likely in the "Flavor" Sunday night timeslot. And, like "Flavor," the producers are casting a "diverse" selection of contestants; in the first episode of "Flavor of Love 2," two of the competing women got into a fistfight over a bed, and another defecated on Flav's marble floor.
A behind-the-scenes look with models who show off the cars
The models go through a four-hour training about the vehicles and are dressed in John Galliano, Gianfranco Ferr and Roberto Cavalli gowns a face-lift to last year's "older world elegance," inspired by Grace Kelly and Sophia Loren. Maserati's Michigan teams contacted local agencies to find the perfect fit for their image this year: sexy and sparkling with luxury, like champagne, Soriani said. "We want beautiful girls, but not top models. They would be too intimidating to talk with." Instead, Soriani said, Maserati's aim was to find pretty girls with the gift of gab. "When someone sees a Maserati, we expect the person to point and say, 'Hey, look at the girl, or the guy driving the Maserati.'" This is the kind of thinking that builds what a person sees from our company," Soriani said.
Pairing up: Couples now seek friends online
Chalnick, 33, had the idea for the Web site in 2004, after he and his wife moved from Manhattan to Rockland County in upstate New York. We bought a huge house and realized all our friends were in Manhattan, he said. Both he and his wife worked full-time, each commuting 90 minutes each day, and had no time to meet couples in their new neighborhood. Couplets.com currently has more than 2,000 members in the United States. Sheila Zamel, founder of Couplesworldwide.com, started in much the same way. She remarried and moved from South Africa to Calabasas, Calif. She and her husband were in their 40s and wanted to meet new couples, but they found it surprisingly difficult. Im very active, Zamel said. But its very hard to have time to go out and meet people, and where do you go to meet people? After months of research, Zamel launched Couplesworldwide.com in November 2006.
A behind-the-scenes look with models who show off the cars
The models go through a four-hour training about the vehicles and are dressed in John Galliano, Gianfranco Ferr and Roberto Cavalli gowns a face-lift to last year's "older world elegance," inspired by Grace Kelly and Sophia Loren. Maserati's Michigan teams contacted local agencies to find the perfect fit for their image this year: sexy and sparkling with luxury, like champagne, Soriani said. "We want beautiful girls, but not top models. They would be too intimidating to talk with." Instead, Soriani said, Maserati's aim was to find pretty girls with the gift of gab. "When someone sees a Maserati, we expect the person to point and say, 'Hey, look at the girl, or the guy driving the Maserati.'" This is the kind of thinking that builds what a person sees from our company," Soriani said.
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